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[stormduck]

very tidy indeed sir!

[miniman86]

nice dave very impressed, mines been sprayed, more pics to follow shortly

[Dave 1293]

Cheers guys..

Should b at the next club meet alex if your going.

Dunno if you get mini world but its the one for our rolling road day.. well impressed.

[miniman86]

hows the project going dave? have you heard about the gearbox in me van?? its knackeed, ive bought an engine and box off colin tho, so should be ok!

[Dave 1293]

Well.. once again... been busy.

All welding has been finished thanks to my mate nick... front subframes painted and fitted

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New inner and outer pot joints.. rebuilt hubs, rebuilt upper arm, new steering rack,
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New front lowered Gaz Shocks and MOT bars painted and ready to fit.

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Spent half a day getting the doors to fit and close with a nice gap... not fun

But looks good now

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And after waiting nearly 3 months for minisport.. i now have my roll cage

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just haven't got a fitting kit.. >

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But still looks the part just resting there


Also bought a second hand 6 month old rear subframe £40, painted it up and fitted... hate fitting them. Got another bargain at mini spares.. brand spanking new radius arms £117 for a pair and a fitting kit.

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More pics in the week..

Edited by Dave 1293, 15 January 2007 - 08:18 PM.

[miniman86]

looking very impressive dave!! hope its all going good!

[Mini Steve]

what finish are you going for??

black with the origional decals??


looking good though buddy

[Dave 1293]

Im aiming for a street sleeper look.. all black. red cage. lots of carbon fibre. no decals

I'll do loads and think yeah great.. im getting somewhere.. but things i order take so long and there never right.. then im like whats the point..

also if it rains my unit floods... as i found out. the puddle is about 4 inches deep and right around my car!

[ed4ran]

Im aiming for a street sleeper look.. all black. red cage. lots of carbon fibre. no decals

I'll do loads and think yeah great.. im getting somewhere.. but things i order take so long and there never right.. then im like whats the point..

LOL, sounds alot like mine!!

and Looking good.

If things are taking ages to arrive then your obviously ordering too much from MiniSport!!
I mostly use MiniSpares and do next day delivery, also if its not in stock you cant order it,
(sometimes you can but you get an email of what was sent) everything is always on time.
Also they stock more, and its easier to find.

[Dave 1293]

Lol.. how did u guess...

Well i normally use Mini Spares, i'm fairly local to them so i normally drive up, but mini sport did a really good deal for the roll cage.. £330 for front and rear race. Just didn't tell me that i'd have to wait 3 months as safety devices almost went bust. So i had to wait for them to move to poland and start running of cages again.

[Dave 1293]

Just downloaded loads of pics from my old phone from early on in the build..

here goes..

This was when i got my boot repair, rear valance and rear panel welded on. Took the lips off and filled with weld so its strong and ready for the filler..

We put the rear panel on first, then boot floor and finished it off with the rear valance

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then the filler

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Next to blend in was where the the new rear panel met the original car..

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Next it was painted in satin black... you wouldn't even know it had new panels

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Not bad..

next was the drivers rear quater panel..

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this was a fun job...

[Bungle]

nice big roll of mig wire i see

[Dave 1293]

I remember puttin off the removal the front end, as i know it let in alot of water... i didn't want to look.. but this is what i found.

before

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after.. :'(

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remains

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under the scuttle on the drivers side.. where the air vents should be..

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was a big hole.

passenger side wasn't that bad, just around the bottom and inner and outer sill.

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which was fixed up like new

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That wire's never ending... gone through 2 big bottles of gas and still loads of wire.. its great!

[Dave 1293]

Drivers side needed some real help.. started off by rubbing the door step away with my little finger and fittin a new one.. including some of the a-post..

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Then fitted the second part of the new a-post.. there was alot of rust damage to the inner sill so all that was replaced with the front drivers floor pan.

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My next step was to remove all the bad metal from the front inner arch leading up to the scuttle and the big hole..

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and..

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and attach the new bit.. had to make some panels to fill in the gaps but its all strong.

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[* Specialized *]

good work mate, keep it up