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[Viktor]

Cheers Stuart, it might take still a couple of years, we'll see...

 

Quick mission in the garage this morning. Finishing a few spot welds to the inner wings that were missing when the front subframe was still in.

 

Car on the jig, easy to turn around.

 

 

There's a small area where I can't reach with the spot welder, none of the electrodes I have can do the work...

 

 

So I did a few plug welds and reinforced the corner between the inner wing and the front panel.

 

 

A bit of grinding and paint and all sorted.

 

 

Same on the other side...

 

 

And all finished off.

 

 

I still need to fabricate those small plates th join the wings, the front panel and the A-panels along the wheel arch. Hopefully tomorrow...

 

Cheers.

 

Victor.

[colinf1]

Looks like you're making great progress Victor!

[Viktor]

Not much done this weekend, good weather is pushing me to do other things, but at least I managed to get a couple of hours in the garage.

 

I had to finish this roof repair. Now with the car on the jig, it is easier to grind the underside of the repair.

 

 

I still need to fill a few small holes, but other than that it should be fine and it is very solid.

 

 

Outside it needed a bit of fine grinding as well.

 

 

I also did a bit of panel beating to get any small distortions corrected.

 

 

Finally I spot welded the repair panel along the gutter.

 

 

So this is almost done. Hoepfully I will finish it next time I'm back to the garage.

 

Cheers.

 

Victor.

[MrBounce]

Fantastic work!

[gaspen]

Good work Victor!

Here are some measurements for the outer piece of the inner wing that the A-panel gets crimped onto. Should help you get it roughly the correct shape.

All in mm and increments of 100mm top to bottom. The last piece goes from 35mm to zero to meet with the small tab on the bottom of the inner wing.

 

Hi Colin 

 

I am looking for these measures for ages !  

Did you measure those on a heritage panel ?

[colinf1]

Good work Victor!

Here are some measurements for the outer piece of the inner wing that the A-panel gets crimped onto. Should help you get it roughly the correct shape.

All in mm and increments of 100mm top to bottom. The last piece goes from 35mm to zero to meet with the small tab on the bottom of the inner wing.

Hi Colin

I am looking for these measures for ages !
Did you measure those on a heritage panel ?

Hi Gaspen, yes heritage inner wing

[Viktor]

Interesting...

 

I fabricated those with the dimensions provided by Colin, but never used them as I got some heritage inner wing bits instead.

 

Shame you are not in the UK Gaspen...

 

Victor.

[gaspen]

Interesting...

 

I fabricated those with the dimensions provided by Colin, but never used them as I got some heritage inner wing bits instead.

 

Shame you are not in the UK Gaspen...

 

Victor.

 

I fabricated it using the old and rusty "remains" as a template but it is far away from good.

 

Now I give a chance for a Magnum repair panel which I am not in love with...

 

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[Viktor]

Yeah, I initially bought Magnum panels for that and sent them back as they were really bad.

 

Good luck!

[pete l]

The magnum flitch panel is probably the only magnum panel I would "recommend", it does the job, it could be a little longer so that it goes up to the windscreen surround though.

[stuart bowes]

I used this one https://www.minispar...|Back to search which is reasonably cheap

 

I actually only actually needed the bottom outer corner of it and to be honest now I would just fabricate the piece but it was early on in the learning curve

 

ever since then it's been sitting in the garage gradually getting smaller as I cut bits out of it to use as patches and for fabricating various other bits (only the smallest weirdest shaped offcuts go to waste)

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[gaspen]

I used this one https://www.minispar...|Back to search which is reasonably cheap

 

I actually only actually needed the bottom outer corner of it and to be honest now I would just fabricate the piece but it was early on in the learning curve

 

ever since then it's been sitting in the garage gradually getting smaller as I cut bits out of it to use as patches and for fabricating various other bits (only the smallest weirdest shaped offcuts go to waste)

 

I assume it is the same Magnum panel but with black primer. I also bought these and it has the same "popping" behaviour as the floor panels but I was abel to fix it.

[Viktor]

It took me a good couple of months to go back to the project, but finally managed to spend some time on the car today.

 

Just a few small jobs around the car, taking advantage of the good weather.

 

 

There is a bit of rust along the gutters on both sides, so I did clean it up.

 

 

 

Also noticed a small hole, so I plug welded it.

 

 

 

 

All sorted. A bit of K-Rust and final zinc primer.

 

 

 

Same process on the other side.

 

 

 

 

Then I moved to the firewall, the interior has some surface rust, so I got that sorted.

 

 

 

 

That was it for today, looking forward to start painting the underside of the car!

 

Cheers.

 

Victor.

[colinf1]

Great to see you back at it Victor!

[Viktor]

Last post made 3 months ago...

 

So much going on, moving house probably in December and playing golf have kept me away from the Mini, but now I'm hoping to be back for good. Next step will be to start painting the underside of the car, so I did a bit of research and asked on Facebook, so now I believe I know what I want to do...

 

Anyway, some small jobs done today while I wait for the paint and the tools to arrive.

 

 

 

A bit of cleaning up on this area I missed previously.

 

 

 

Some K-Rust before paint.

 

 

 

And some zinc primer to finish it off.

 

 

More updates to follow soon!