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[Turbo Nick]

managed to get a few hours in the garage today, fibreglassed the brackets to the inside of the A panels and made a start on the bit of filling needed where it's had a new scuttle end.

 

Will see about drilling the hinge panel and welding in the captive nuts for the front to bolt to tomorrow night if I get chance.

[F1L8EY]

wow, started about 10 minutes again and then fast forward 4 years lol!! keep it going mate looking great!! love the stance and theres no engine in it yet !!

[Turbo Nick]

So last weekend turned out to be pretty decent, picked up a couple of big bits for the build :)

 

Shiney new (to me) wheels all the way from Japan :)

 

 

 

 

And an arc angels option 1 carbon roof skin for a bargain price at Bingley.

 

 

[cradley-heathen]

this just gets better and better, wheels and roof are awesome!

[Rocket.]

Those wheels !!!!

[coopdog]

what are they like on the car?

[Turbo Nick]

No idea yet dude, need to turn up some inserts for the wheel nut seats first. Not as much offset as the wellers so can hopefully get away with small arches.

[Turbo Nick]

this just gets better and better, wheels and roof are awesome!

 

Got an unmolested parcel shelf on the way too dude that'll need welding in nicely ;)

[Turbo Nick]

Bit more progress to report at last, not had much garage time lately so just been collecting parts and getting stuff done as and when.

 

Managed to source a replacement parcel shelf so that was expertly welded in by Cradley_Heathen, real pleased with it.

 

 

 

Picked this up too, will be mounting it once the cage is in and hopefully use the dash bar to mount off.

 

 

Next big job was mounting the seats as they needed to be in before it goes for the cage in a couple of weeks. 

Not sure I'll end up being able to stick with these seats as they're pretty wide at the top so clash with the B pillar. I've had to mount them further back which will probably get in the way of where the main hoop needs to run. I know Cobra Monaco's will fit as I had them before but they're about 3kg heavier than these seats.

 

Ended up making my own brackets as I couldn't get any from Topcat in time.

 

 

 

 

[Turbo Nick]

Not much to update as of late, been busy helping a couple of mates get cars ready for Japfest instead.

 

Mini goes off for a roll cage tomorrow morning though :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the mini out in the sun last weekend :)

 

 

 

[Gr4h4m]

Looking cool

[minimissions]

Looking good there, that is going to be one low mini :) love it tho :)

[Turbo Nick]

Cheers chaps, hoping to get it as low as I can but lots of suspension head scratching will be needed to get it any lower than that. Floorpan is about 50mm off the floor at the minute.

 

Managed to get her down to Endafs today and kept her dry in the monsoon on the way there :)

 

[Turbo Nick]

Went on the 7 hour round trip to collect the car today and man was it worth the journey.

 

Endaf has done an awesome job on the cage, it's truly a work of art in my eyes.