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[Bungle]

eat up

your going to need some meat on you as there doesnt look like theres much pading

[Jammy]

They are really very snug, pretty much perfect for my size. Hence the sticker in the following pics! Managed to weigh them, although these are very rough figures, since something so light doesn't have much of an effect on normal bathroom scales! With the runners on they are about 4kg each, without the runners I think they are about 2kg! Which is a vast improvement on the 10kg per seat that the standard interior weighed. Overall, By ditching the standard front and rear seats, and getting these seats I reckon I've lost easily 15kg off the weight of the car!

[Bungle]

you getting picky in your old age ?

[Tomm]

ohhh very nice James!

[marc]

You ******! I was looking at them! 2.7kg per seat. Are they the narrow fitment ones?


Jealous isnt the word! lol.

[Jammy]

Well I finally did it! I finally got the dam thing in the garage. It was quite some feat. For a start the garage was piled up with stuff. At the beginning of last week there was a metre wide 'walkway' in between everything to get to the 'workshop' area at the back. So I've had to move things around, sell a couple of bits, squash everything in, 'relocate' stuff to the loft and hide other bits around the house! So I finally managed to mostly clear a spot for the car this evening.

The next problem being that the mini is about 140cm wide, where as the gate between my drive and my garage is 125cm. So I had to then take the gate off, as well as the latching post to even start a chance. As you can see, it was a very tight squeeze. Good job I'm experienced at getting large things into small gaps!





Still, got it through, at times having to pull the engine crane, then walk through the house, all the way around, push it a bit, then walk all the way back, pull a bit more. It was quite a long process! All the time carrying tyres to keep the new tiled driveway nice and new!

Then it was just a simple 1 hour push to the garage, stopping to move the running machine and rowing machine out the way, but finally its in there. You may make the mistake of thinking I know have loads of room to work on it. Your wrong. Theres quite a bit of stuff that had to go back in the garage once the shell was in there, like the running machine and rowing machine, and various boxes. But at least I'll be out the elements!

[TOMMO0302]

Nice one, king of innuendo's as always it seems....but unless i am totally confused, why have you got a gate to the garage that not even a mini can get through?

[Jammy]

You ******! I was looking at them! 2.7kg per seat. Are they the narrow fitment ones?


Jealous isnt the word! lol.

Tee hee!

To be honest I'm not sure which size they are, I got them off Piston Heads from a guy who had them in his Westfield. Very nice price I paid for them too, certainly wasn't Fluke Motorsport prices!! I would my arse would be the part of my body held mostly firmly in the seat, but its actually my broad muscular shoulders! The seat is about 37cm at the arse, and 40cm at the shoulders. My 14 stone (just big build, not fat) mate found it a little uncomfortable, but for me its about perfect.

[Jammy]

Nice one, king of innuendo's as always it seems....but unless i am totally confused, why have you got a gate to the garage that not even a mini can get through?

Because my rents never intended to use the garage as a garage. They stuck a load of gym equipment in there thinking it would spur them on to get fit, and they had plans to use it as a 'summer room' But now they have an apartment in Spain, and a hut type thing in the garden they don't need the garage, apart from the gym equipment, so its mine!

[*Raz*]

Very true jammy very true

Good work! lets just hope your mini doesnt get fat selse you wont be able to get him/her out again

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Rachy xXx

[Jammy]

Whats very true!?

Yea, my dad has already mentioned what I plan to do when I put wheel on it and can't get it back through the gate. I'll deal with that later.

[*Raz*]

Whats very true!?

Yea, my dad has already mentioned what I plan to do when I put wheel on it and can't get it back through the gate. I'll deal with that later.

You know exactly what

cough inuendo cough

erm yea...well cross that bridge when you come to it ay (obviously...otherwise you'll be stuck at the other side of the bridge....which is cool if u wana stay there )

xXx

[Jammy]

Quick update:

Received these in the post. I wasn't going to bother with brakes yet, but these were on Ebay and going cheap (-er than the usual KAD prices!). They are in very good condition (better than the KAD brakes on my other mini that have only done a few hundred miles) and come with greenstuff pads and KAD vented, grooved and cross-drilled discs.

They are the 8.4" calipers, which won't fit under any 10" wheels, except the split rims from Force Racing!




I've also noticed that in the dozen or so pages this project has been running for, I haven't actually made any real progress with the project! I just keep buying things! But rest assured, before the weekend, some welding will be done on the shell!!

[ed4ran]

When will you be making any progress on the frame?

[Jammy]

In a few weeks I think. Now I've got an engine again I can finish my mock up of the engine and other bits in Inventor, and work out what I can do with the suspension. I'm still a little worried that I don't have the width to use wishbones, but we'll see. I want to have most the bodywork done in January, then I can start on the frames and rollcage in Feburary!