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[Timtom]

I love the back end of it! Awesome stuff..

[bananaman]

I love it too, just need to find a flat lens for the pass side indicator. It's so light you can grab the bumper and lift it off of the ground.

The guy that built it certainly had an eye for it. I just hope when I mod the front a bit I can soften it a bit to match the back end more.

[bananaman]

Well, I got my ally sheet today, 3 mm thick so it's very strong, should make a nice set of front wings.

Unfortunatly my wife is ill so no work on either Scampie or Scrappy the Mini for the near future. Get well soon honey.

[bananaman]

Sam is better now, so I can get back to work on my cars. I drew up my template for the front wings and started cutting them out of the ally sheet. I will get around to fitting and trimming them this week. Plus got my brake disks and hubs to fit to Scampie, and then modify to fit the ten inch wellers back on. (1/2 inch spacers and extended studs, plus a tiny bit ground off of the calipers edge)

One these are on and I have fitted the arch extensions and front grill it's off for the MOT!! (Given myself a 4 week deadline now in time for the next Ace Cafe meet)

Edited by bananaman, 06 July 2008 - 09:36 PM.

[bananaman]

I cut the front wings/arches and trial fitted them today, looks okay but they need fettling to get them to fit on nicely. Plus they are still blue so once I have them how I like them I'll be rubbing it all down and painting it sandy brown.

I might leave it on the drum brakes for now, until I have the MOT done, then change them at my leisure later. Still got to pick up a set of spats to cover the tyres and butcher a Defender grill to cover where I cut the front panel open so I could reach the dizzy and oil filter easily.

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[bananaman]

Been a bit quiet, new boss at work means I have been slaving away everywhere but on my cars, bugger, lol.

Got to get the two wings I have cut bent to fit around the front wings I have on the car. just need access to an anvil, which I have at work, lucky me. Now if someone can distract the metalsmith for ten minutes, lol.

Hopefully I can crack on with both cars next week, probably going to get Scrappy sprayed profesionally, not sure I could get the finish I'd be happy with if I did it myself.

[bananaman]

Don't you just love it when you make a set of plans, and it all goes to pot and nothing you wanted to do gets done!!!

I am still trying to strip and rebuild the disks and hubs I got for the front end, they came with the inner parts of the inner pot joints still attached to the drive shafts. One came off easily enough with the aid of a vice, a modified huge flat headed screw driver and a tap from a BFH, but the other side is being a pain, it just doesn't want to shift. (Que me getting annoyed and missing the screwdriver, whacked thumb, and big bruised nail and lots of colourful language)

Now I have got it round a friends who has popped the stainless cap from the end and is going to put it into a press, that should shift the little bugger.

Once I have this done, the drums can come off of the front and the disks go on, and I'll be able to stop again. (The drums do work, but blimey I'd forgotten the difference between them and disks, lol)

I have also got a pair of front seats from a Fiat Puto to replace the ones currently fitted. I found them in a scrapper we were loaned for an open day, we were going to crush it anyway so it seemed a shame to waste them. I am going to get a set of water resistant covers for them and make an adaptor for the subframes then they should fit nicely and they hold me snug so no more sliding around the seat when I turn.

I'll get a few more pics next week.

Tony

[Deathrow]

Pics of the seats chap?

I'm still trying to decide what seats to put in mine, I want ease of getting in and out with comfort, but I don't want to have my passenger ending up on my knee (well most of the time, there are always exceptions).

[bananaman]

I'll get a few pictures of the seats when I go in on tuesday. I'm not sure if they'd fit in a Mini, Scampie has no doors and I dont have to worry about the rear bins because I dont have any.

You'll see what I mean, lol.

[bananaman]

I stripped out the old seats and carpet, and had a good look at the marine ply floors, they are in better condition than I was expecting. Well, the floor and carpet was, not so the old seats.

When I turned them upside down, they had a steel plate and springs for the diaphram, I say had because on both seats it had rusted away, no wonder my bum sank so far into them. They are now in the skip, after I stripped off the hand made subframes.

To replace them, I have two seats from the front of a 5 door Fiat Punto from 1995, comfy, not too big, and the best bit, completely free, lol.

After rubbing down and painting the subframes, I have to drill new mounting holes for the seats and bolt them together, then it's a case of sanding and painting the floor, and bolting it all back in.

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[bananaman]

So I finished modifying the seat base to mount the drivers seat, and then bolted it in to see how it is. Much more comfy than the old seat, but still too high.

Got someone who will chop and weld the base to lower it by three inches, then I need to move it an inch towards the center of the car so I can move it back without it pushing against the roll hoop.

I also had to clear the garage at work out, so got a few picks of both projects together out in the sun, Scampie and Scrappy.

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[bananaman]

A cold snowy winter, kids with chicken pox, and a very busy work shedule meant that I didn't get the work done over christmas that I had planned.

Brakes are done, but I need to replace the ply floors with something a bit hardier, poss chequerplat ally if I can find some,

I will get to drive him to the Ace Cafe at least once this year.

Tony

[bananaman]

Half of the floor is done, 3mm ally check plate that a mate had sitting in the back of his garage.

Got to pull out the drivers seat, lift the ply floor and then use that as my template for my new floor. I've got new seat bases now so once the floor is in I can remount the seats, re-attach the handbrake and gear stick, then that should be it!!

MOT time!!!!!!

(Oh, and ring around for insurance, that will be fun, not)

[bananaman]

Ahhh, the floor is finally finished, cut, edged and dropped in nicely. Holes drilled ready to rivet down, seat bases drilled ready to bolt down.

Once this is done, it's ready for the MOT!!!

[bananaman]

GRRRRRR, don't you just love it when nothing goes right!!

Got the seats in, floor done, belts in and anchored down, arch lips done from a couple of Ripspeed universal mudflaps chopped about to cover the tyres...

Then, already for the dreaded test today,,,,,,, NO HEADLIGHTS!!!!!! The indicator stalk decided to fall to pieces on me as I was running through the pre test checks, so it's off again until I can get a new one from Minispares on monday.

Will we make the Ace Cafe meet on thursday???

I flippin hope so.