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[HARBER07]

Nice work again shifty! .

[mini_stella]

Im on the edge of my seat hon!!

Be still my pretty one, as always I'm worth the wait!!

Aww shifty I know you are but you know I'll be upset if im not the first on the bonnet!!

Edited by mini_stella, 10 June 2009 - 09:54 PM.

[Shifty]

Nice work again shifty! .

Thanks Tom, soon be finished now!!

(ahem!!)

[BenLAST]

De-badged bonnet is certainly cleaner in my personal opinion.

I smoothed mine over before sending it to the paint shop.

[Shifty]

Thanks for the pics ben, looks good, however I've decided to leave the badge on for the time being(still time to change my mind though!!)


Well I've been busy doing my bit for the environment!!

Theres now a hole in the ozone layer above my house.

The good news is however that I've (nearly) finished preping him for paint.

And now he's in Etch primer, and boy does he look good.









What a difference a quick coat of paint makes eh?!!

Its shown up a couple of areas where I need to do a bit of fettleing, but on the whole its all good.

Next up is give the roof a flat off and give him a coat of high build primer.

Thats a job for tomorrow now though.

[Down&Out]

is this the future blacktulip one?

[deemo]

Just read through project "rustiest mini ever"
Great work!
Looking great in primer now, It makes such a difference when everything is one colour.

Not far to go now, lucky bugger. It's going to be sweet.

Oh and how come you decided against the mk1 lights?

[Shifty]

1 / Yup this is the one thats gonna be Black Tulip(with a black roof) bought the paint yesterday and its going to Roofless to be painted on Tuesday.
really excited about that. First time in 15 yrs that I've had a car painted by someone else(ie who know what they're doing)!!

2/ Deemo thanks for taking the time to read all my drivel!! I decided to go more '70s than '60 with this one, I already have a very '60s Elf and just
thought it would be a bit different.

Today is High build primer day!!

Update laters!!

[Retro_10s]

lovely mate, looooking good

[Shifty]

Cheers Mike!!

Well no pictures yet because my garage is still full of fumes!!

The shell is now in High build and looking good, couple of pinholes etc to sort no where near as much as I was expecting.

Doors and bonnet have been stripped of old paint and given some etch as well, also looks good.

Roof has been flatted and filled and then high build primered.

The interior paint has been flatted and then etched.

So the plan for tomorrow is

- Refit rear frame so car can be rolled out of the garage.

- High build primer the doors/boot and bonnet.

- Flat off shell and make filler repairs as required.

- Jet wash off shell and then roll back into garage.

- Remove rear frame!!

- High build primer again.

Phew, makes me tired just thinking about it!!

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[daleentwistle]

this thread just made me feel like my project is dead small. Great job and good work!

Edited by daleentwistle, 13 June 2009 - 08:48 PM.

[Retro_10s]

This thread just made me feel like my project is dead small

but on the upside of things - Shifty is vertically challenged - so he too feels small in one way or another

you love me really, boy!

[Shifty]

Well no pics because the camera was flat!!

Project Spudnik has hit a problem!!

All was going well, he was on track to go to COVICSs to be painted when I discovered more rot and serious rot at that.

I'd primed and prepped the shell and had loads of time spare so decided to make a start on stripping the engine bay out, ripped out the carb,rad, master cylinders, old LCB etc.

Still had some time left so started to clean up the bay with the wire brush when all of a sudden the metal turned white!! CRAP!!

Mr I M A Bodger had been here as well!!

Serious rot on the bulkhead by the master cylinders, the stiffening plate had rotted out and taken part of the bulkhead with it.............FECK!!!

Only course of action was to remove the front subby and engine to see just how bad the damage was.

The rot isn't that bad(well thats what I keep telling myself!!) but its gonna need some serious repairs and I've just got to decide how I'm gonna do it.

The other problem is that now the engines out I want to take it apart and stick a cam and flywheel in it and check it over!!!

Then the front subby can be stripped, painted and rebushed.

MORE WORK!!

Pics to follow!!

[Shifty]

This thread just made me feel like my project is dead small

but on the upside of things - Shifty is vertically challenged - so he too feels small in one way or another

you love me really, boy!

I think thats gotta be the first time I've ever made anyone feel small!!!

Heh heh heh hehe

[cookie4343]

Well no pics because the camera was flat!!

Project Spudnik has hit a problem!!

All was going well, he was on track to go to COVICSs to be painted when I discovered more rot and serious rot at that.

I'd primed and prepped the shell and had loads of time spare so decided to make a start on stripping the engine bay out, ripped out the carb,rad, master cylinders, old LCB etc.

Still had some time left so started to clean up the bay with the wire brush when all of a sudden the metal turned white!! CRAP!!

Mr I M A Bodger had been here as well!!

Serious rot on the bulkhead by the master cylinders, the stiffening plate had rotted out and taken part of the bulkhead with it.............FECK!!!

Only course of action was to remove the front subby and engine to see just how bad the damage was.

The rot isn't that bad(well thats what I keep telling myself!!) but its gonna need some serious repairs and I've just got to decide how I'm gonna do it.

The other problem is that now the engines out I want to take it apart and stick a cam and flywheel in it and check it over!!!

Then the front subby can be stripped, painted and rebushed.

MORE WORK!!

Pics to follow!!

Sorry to hear this mate, its peed you right of i bet, hope you get it sorted soon and get it finished.
Also on the advice you gave me for the waxstat to red jet conversion, fitted it no a few teething proplems but sorted and i can notice the difference already, thanks mate steven.