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[Tomm]

i will get some once i have shapped the filler as at the moment its looking EXTREMELY untidy so once ive made it look half pretty ill wack up some pics!

Any advice on where to get some MK1 light conversion plates from?

[miniboo]

ebay or minispares

[TOMMO0302]

i will get some once i have shapped the filler as at the moment its looking EXTREMELY untidy so once ive made it look half pretty ill wack up some pics!

Any advice on where to get some MK1 light conversion plates from?

To be honest, i would rather see it at all stages, it's more impressive as we can see what it was like and how it turns out. obviously upto you though

Dogmatix did the conversion as well as the new project put up by Mad4mins, they might be able to help!

[mad4mins]

my ears are burning!! .... yeah i got my coversion plates from minispares, good quality but £12 a light hurts the wallet!!! :'( .. also dont buy the mk1 lights as one complete unit, bought some back plates from a show for a £5 and then bought the gasket set and new lens from minispares and saved loads.. and they look the biz!! dead chuffed

[Tomm]

No! I have found s nice bloke with some MK1 lights that he doesnt want to much for, all there working and complete so that was a bonus!

Yeh i think ill have to order some conversion plates for ebay or some thing, a lot easier and you are sure to get your item waiting 4 months unlike minispares!

Yeh i will grab some pics of them todayif you want! Ive got to go up and get my girlfriends work out of the garage anyhow!

Also i should get a new rear valance in a few days so that whole back end should be done pretty soon i hope

Oh so excited!

But i am getting a bit lost on what engine to go for, I was originaly going to go for a K-series conversion because flickus on here had offered me his 1.4 GTI for free but i have had a problem with collecting the car and getting it home .Soooo now i am thinking a 2.0 veuxhall conversion because unlike honda the engines are nt that hard to get hold of for cheap. I am just thinking that there is no point in having a nice looking car if it doesnt have some thing half denent under the bonnet but i think some peoples views will varry!

I have been offered a honda prelude 2.0 for around £400 but i think that if i bought this my miniproject would fall flat on its face and the prelude will get all of the love, but i will have to see. At the moment i am leaning towards a vaux conversion....

Humm any ideas?

[jack_marshall]

My idea is good luck getting insured on anything with a different engine in it.

You really need to look for insurance to see if you can insure a K series, Vauxhall conversion.

It would probably be as hard as getting insured on a 2 litre Prelude... Dont mean to *yellow human water* on your fire, but think about this cause it would be so gutting having done all this work and not being able to use it.

Insurance is getting crazier and crazier, especially for the younger, and male. And theres no wonder, some crazy statistic like 60% of all road deaths are under 21's.

Just think

[Tomm]

I was quoted £1900 for a 1275 with the modifications diclaired and that was with everything apart from the shell being deaseamed. I then got on the phone today and have had a ring around and have managed to get a quote on a prelude to the same price as my mini from direct line. This is because they offered me the option of not using the car from 11PM untill 5AM which i did not have a problem with as i am not usually up that early or out that late, and if i am i will be staying there untill the next morning and this saved me 35% on my previous quote.

[mad4mins]

have you tried insuring the mini at Miniworld insurance, they were really good when i told about the mods on my car..

[Tomm]

because they are a specialist insurance company you have to be 19 or over to get insured with them

[miniboo]

any update son the actual mini?

[Tomm]

Yeh i shall throwm some pics up in a sec for you all of my deseamed near side quater

bought some nitromorse to get rid of all the C**p i have sprayed on the car aswell

To be honest i think i will leave the Prelude due to it being in Notts and me being down in kent, i started to play with little mini today and i love it to much

Got the drivers floor panel to replace some time this week aswell.

Will it make much differance if i put the arches on withought havng the shocks and wheels on yet?

[Tomf]

Cant w8t for the pics

[Tomm]

well where i have used the filler and then the paint stripper, i have sent the filler right down the toilet when we did it on my mates corsa it seemed to be fine and i am using the exact same filler and paint stripper so i think ill have to take it all out and start from scratch once i have stripped the paint off of the whole of the back end. I also used this paint on primer to pick out any imperfections which is being a right pain in the arse with the filler, Yeish!

I still need to get the conversion plates and a rear valance, I can also afford a whole new engine but my mums loan is growing more every day

Tomm

[Tomm]

MAY be going to bingly where i can get a load of new parts and really get the project on the roll!

At the moment i have been drawn in by my hiddious front subframe so i went up the road and bought hauds of new bolts and started to strip it down to degrease it all and and put it all back together with new parts.

Need to make a shopping list for bingly

PROMISE TO HAVE PICS BY TOMMOROW!!

I have some now but they are groseum!

[Tomf]

Please put up what you have now, i mean obv there not going to look great, it is only going to really look good once its all finished.