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[Deathrow]

Deadline!!!....

January 2009 Ready for bingly hall January 25th

Gotta get maself into gear then

I'd get yourself twin charged while you're selecting gears.

[frankiebateman]

I will do ! haha evry day after work ill be doing work on the mini. I should have the new engine in by the end of this week get the welding done at the weekend then alls left to do is fit all the parts and respray lol and get a fiberglass roof. I dont even think ill respray it properly might just primer it for now untill i can afford a spray job

[beaubrad]

Cheers, emalee of here £50

would they do any kinda seat as i need my seats retrimed?? keep up the good work mate looking really good

[frankiebateman]

Deadline!!!....

January 2009 Ready for bingly hall January 25th

Gotta get maself into gear then

I'd get yourself twin charged while you're selecting gears.

Ive done got the engine out lol im sowkrin ulstra fast alls i need to do is get the other one out degreese it repaint it and get it in by let me see hmmmm this friday !!! lol

Cheers, emalee of here £50

would they do any kinda seat as i need my seats retrimed?? keep up the good work mate looking really good

Yep anything and cheers


Got the engine out people i kinda left the drive shafts in and broke the rubbers lol so gunna have to take the shafts of the other mini and fitthem like that

If anyone knows howto remove the driveshaft from the engine that would be very helpfull thanks P.s ill search... Pics



Woops ! lol


Should have the other angine out and resprayed by this weekend im in turbo charged node you see

i dont have a engine hoist so i used a jack and 2 wheels lmao

Edited by frankiebateman, 24 November 2008 - 07:07 PM.

[frankiebateman]

You know what guys and girls i have faith in myself and think ill have the mini done by xmas IF the welding gets done this week lol

[sweetser]

You know what guys and girls i have faith in myself and think ill have the mini done by xmas IF the welding gets done this week lol

Good luck mate

Ill be round for the beer soon lol

[frankiebateman]

Cheers and haha hurry im supping pretty quick here

[sweetser]

Cheers and haha hurry im supping pretty quick here

haha

[frankiebateman]

Got the other engine out only took 3 hours lmao but its ready for tommorow to clean and spray on thursday and fit on friday so its all good. My hands hurt so much haha been banging them all over only had a little space to work in anyways heres some pics will update tommorow .....

[frankiebateman]

Got the engine all cleaned up and ready for painting now .... Going to paint it tommorow hopefully lol the get it fitted for friday pics....



Nope it wasnt snowing

[AndrewJ530]

Kool ... two tone lol

[frankiebateman]

Lol, should look alot better tommorow

[miniallsort]

great update mate

[frankiebateman]

Cheers im going for the metalic red and black look red block black sump, clutch cover all the silver bits realy i think it will look spot on

[frankiebateman]

Yayy got the engine done, its not spot on perfect but it looks good enough to me also did my engine bay all i need to do is tidy the wiring up heres some pics... Next to do refit the engine get bits and bats for it welding this weekend me thinks then she'll be so close to be done YAY !!





Did the enigne bay with stone chip first then some random ( nice ) red colour i got from work