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[Southy]

Cheers for that fella, a lot of hard work is going into this and even though its going to be an everyday car its going to be as clean underneath as it is on top, after all my mate has a reputation to keep up seen as his car has been on the front cover on mini world and mine is going to be parked in Mini Sports car park everyday whilst im at work so it needs to look good.

[Down&Out]

good work!

[Southy]

Thanks very much Mini-Chelsea, im hoping to have some more updated pictures tonight of the cage back out and all underneath in high build primer and the inside of the car recieving the same treatment as the underside.

[CAU998]

Looking spectacular... Floor pan should be mint when finished, hopefully mine will be finished off as tidy as that

[Pauly]

Looking good .

Paul.

[Southy]

Right its been a short evening really as we were all feeling a little bit tired so called it a night about 10.30.We managed to get the car turned over and sat high up on a set of trestles, that way we can work on the car on the inside and on the outside without getting bad backs (wish we thought of that earlier ).


The car sat on its side ready to be sat on the trestles for easy access (white part is a different colour stone chip we ran out and had to use my mates stock)


What you mean its had a new sill put on??

Once sat high up, the rollcage was removed again to gain easy access to prime/paint the inside and also to prep the cage itself for paint.The rest of the interior was clean out (where we could get to due to the cage being in the way) and then all the floors were started to be DA'd with 80's.

Once the inside was cleaned out work began on DA'ing some of the exterior panels on one side and thats where work was left for tonight.

Started work on the rear quarter flatting it


Flatted front wing, what a surprise no filler

[sweetser]

that floor looks brand new!!
what colour you painting that cage??
and its looking as good as always

[Southy]

to be honest the whole car apart from a couple of bits looked brand new and with it being a 2001 shell and only spent 4 years ON the road it was very clean and tidy, and really i could of just patched the 2 small holes in the sills and got away with it but if im doing it properlly and putting all this effort in might aswell do it then.
The cage is going to be painted the same as the car in ST orange as a majority of the interior is going to be black with hints of ally and checker plate flooring.

Edited by Southy, 05 August 2008 - 10:27 PM.

[sweetser]

The cage is going to be painted the same as the car in ST orange as a majority of the interior is going to be black with hints of ally and checker plate flooring.

sounds lovely mate cant wait to see it finnished going to look so nice

Edited by sweetser, 05 August 2008 - 10:37 PM.

[Daveuk]

ok some points

1. your crazy spraying primer on like that without a mask!! did you see the blokes head in the next pic.... primered head lol

2. awesome work done there (that include the garage.... and loft )

3. you think you can get it done by next sunday?..... i want to see this!

enjoy and all the best

Dave

[mighty mini jack]

Looking brilliant mate, floor does look brand new.

good work

[Southy]

ok some points

1. your crazy spraying primer on like that without a mask!! did you see the blokes head in the next pic.... primered head lol

2. awesome work done there (that include the garage.... and loft )

3. you think you can get it done by next sunday?..... i want to see this!

enjoy and all the best

Dave

In my defence the room is vented with several large fans but thats no excuse, the car will be painted in full resperator gear, whats the point in spending 10mins getting all the gear on to do 20mins worth of spraying thats all i can say really

Thank you for the comments on the work carried out, just hope it looks as i plan it..

Regarding the comment of if it will be done for next sunday.....hmm its a bit doubtful there is a hell of a lot to do, a majority if not everything is ordered and being sorted out (just over 2k's worth of stuff),the new custom wiring loom is due end of this week, the car is going to be painted the start of next week just like ive said earlier in the thread all depends on the suppliers if they get it too me in time...

[Daveuk]

i salute you sir for your ambition

(i know what ya mean, "well it's just a quick prime...." he he just thought id point it out lol)

Dave

[roxy28]

looking good fella, some nice work there

[Sleeping Park Lane]

NIce work chap.

Are you going to crop the roll cage bolts off so they're flush with the top of the nuts once you refit it? - you've got nice smooth lines everywhere else.