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[sweetser]

looks lovely mate, love the colour what colour wheels and arches you having?

[Southy]

Well im deffinantly going for the deep dish ultralite with polished rim and anthracite centre wheels now ive decided and my F/G arches are going to be sprayed the same colour as the car for now, till i can afford the carbon fibre ones to replace them

[Southy]

Right even thought i cant do anything on the car itself doesnt mean i aint been busy, ive been up since 8 this morning and i borrowed my sisters car and went to Mini Sport via the bank to pick all my 1200quids worth of stuff up, once back home we unloaded it all had a quick brew and drove over to Huddersfield Spares to pick up my wheels.


All the stuff back at the house


The new wheels wrapped in A539's


The new rear heated screen and black and chrome grill


My box of goodies


My new custom made wiring loom i picked up the other day

[Oggyfibre]

Just read through the whole thread, and what a read. Loving it mate. A credit to you! keep it up.

[Down&Out]

must be loving all those nice new bits you can drool over

[Southy]

must be loving all those nice new bits you can drool over

Oh yeah of course i am except till i see the bill for them all

Still thats nearly everything probs another 500 quids worth of stuff and whatever i need to pay my mate and that SHOULD (touch wood) be everything.

[Southy]

I think i must be having withdrawl symptons guys, im still waking up at 8 in the morning on a sunday like i do when working on my car, i really want to get it done now and back on the road and come to shows and meet you all

[x06jsp]

looks awesome!

[dan_up850]

looking really good mate, you've done a great job so far and will be awesome to see the wheels and bits put on, its the best bit!!

[Southy]

Right not been taking any pics recently but ive stripped off my old brake and clutch master cylinder off my old shell along with the brake split valve and pedal box and took them into work and put them in the tank to wash off.Will be giving them a slight blast over tomorrow or if im feeling lazy leave them in the rotoblast hehe

Ive just ordered a RX2-N digital speedo/tacho which will be with me on thurs, i will be one of the first to have the 10k rev range which has just become available http://www.vmaxbitz.com/

[landy andy]

What a great project! Nice to see someone realy put in the hours to achieve something so fantastic! My hats off to you sir!

LOVE the ASBO Orange...giving me ideas.

[analogue_radio]

Can't wait to get earning some serious money and have be able to spend that in a day! nice work with the project mate.

[Deathrow]

Orange Mini's are the only way to go .

Lucky to afford asbo orange though.

Well upto now its cost me 400 for 4litres of etch primer,5litres of high build primer, 2litres of white base, 2 litres of orange base and 3 litres of orange pearl and a 5litre clear coat pack, some stopper, a big tub of filler, various sheets of sandpaper and mearsuring cups and sieves, but i need another litre of white and 2 of orange so thats another 60quid on top, so its not too expensive....dont you just love cash deals

That's not bad at all!

I'm sure the last time I read about Ford ST Orange someone said it was like £200 a litre.

Good luck with the rest of the build chap, I'll be watching .

[Southy]

Cheers for the comments people very much appreciated

Yeah its not too bad at all Deathrom the price of the paint but where we bought the paint from we deal with them a fair bit so get good deals and we dont deal with Mr VAT so that makes it even cheaper which we like a lot

[Southy]

Right boys and girls i thought i would give you a little update as to what i have been upto recently, as no progress has been made recently on the shell due to not gaining access to my car as my mate is away on holiday. So basically ive just been buying, stripping, cleaning and painting stuff up and gathering everything together ready for the rebuild of the car starting next weekend.

Over the course of this week i have been busy taking my brake master cylinder, clutch master cylinder, pedal box, drive shafts, and gear linkage into work and put them in the wash tank then shot blasted them to take them back to bare metal and to remove any rusted surfaces.

Once back home these parts were then painted in black.


All the newly painted bits and pieces


Would you believe this was 28 years old?Looks like its just come off the assembly line...


One freshly painted pedal box awaiting my new sparco pedals to be fitted


Nice and clean looking petrol tank and strap


Both hubs now have brand new wheel bearings fitted and a set of brand new ball joints.

Oh and not fogetting my new toy turned up on friday so had a good night read of the instruction book last night, this baby does everything