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[Custom_Minis]

loving video 4 !!

[cptkirk]

loving video 4 !!

Cheers Les, one of my faves too.

[cptkirk]

Rear Arch Protection

I gave the car a good clean (when I say I, I mean me and my mate Benson as if I were elft to y own devices it'd get cleaned with glass cleaner and no polish but apperently thats not the way to do it....) as its on the Miniworld Stand in Brighton on Sunday. After its deep cleanse it became apparent that the front of the rear arches are getting very badly stone-chipped from stuff being thrown up from the front tyres. So as a temporary measure I got another mate of mine, Steve Beard, to fit some matte black vinyl on them with a view to in the future ordering some matte carbon fibre effect vinyl and having that fiited in place of the temp stuff. Anyhoo enough of my rambling here's a couple of snaps taken last night after he had finished one side - by the way these arches are a b@stard to fit regular vinyl to, the proper car wrap will give a better finish.

[Alburglar]

I saw it, it looked great. I nearly nicked your bonnet but seeing as I post everything on my thread I reckon you'd have figured it out.

[cptkirk]

I saw it, it looked great. I nearly nicked your bonnet but seeing as I post everything on my thread I reckon you'd have figured it out.

Thanks, glad you liked and also glad you didnt steal my bonnet.......

There were a lot of cars there this year, the fibreglass pickup I saw gave me an idea for a cheeky sprint car but I think I'll have to hang fire on that one as I still havent even started the next project and I already have the shell for that.

[Jamie_hail]

Small bump. But wow, I hope to see this at some shows when mines out and about! One hell of a machine - is this going to just keep getting better and better, or do you think you've maxed out on what you can get from her?

[cptkirk]

Small bump. But wow, I hope to see this at some shows when mines out and about! One hell of a machine - is this going to just keep getting better and better, or do you think you've maxed out on what you can get from her?

It's not maxed out by any means, I just dont have the cash to do upgrades at the moment, my new manifold that I am making has taken a back seat for a while whilst I enjoy the light summer evenings, come the dark nights I will make more progress and hopefully by then I'll have enough cash to get it rempapped, right now I am just enjoying that fact that its running sweet and all the post build niggles seem to be sorted - well to a point anyway.....

[cptkirk]

I got a bit more press coverage last week in Auto Express, they were at the L2B with a new Countryman to get the views of the die hard Classic mini fans - Didnt go down well from what I saw. However they took a piccy of The Beast and put it in the mag, they got the power figures from the guys at miniworld and somehow got that wrong but hey ho.....

[MJWarren]

I did a bit of work to the dash as well over the last couple of weeks, its now a 3 peice dash.









Then I fitted my 52mm Gauges (was going to go for overhead mounting but Lyle (PhotoguyUSA) beat me to it).

The pod for the tacho/speedo is still to come (another thing to get done...aaarrrgh)

You may notice some new switches in place, and still loads of wires everywhere - slowly but surely..........

This dash is Really nice Andy. Where abouts is it from?

Matt

[cptkirk]

Matt, its a Zcars own carbon dash, it cost me £120 about 3-4 years ago.

The dash and the door cards are held on be Velcro Dual Lock, proper heavy duty stuff, no squeeks and no unsightly bolt heads showing.

[MJWarren]

Thanks for that and what a great idea with the Velcro, Just brought some bit from Carbon weezel and need a new dash so im looking for idea.

Cheers Andy

[cptkirk]

I showed the car in the weekend at the Goodwood Road Racing Club Open Day, there were 300 applicants to show their cars and mine made it into the final 50 that were there on the day. There was loads of interesting cars there, from a MKI 1600 Twin Cam Escort, to a Steam driven Stanley car and many things in between, even a couple of bikes. Mine was definitely one of the quickest 0-60 cars there, only a superlightweight Atom being a quicker car 0-60. I got a couple of snaps fo the car in situ, I got one of the better spots for sure. The car of the day was won by a Ferrari 250 short wheel base, probably worth 1.5-2million, nice car but not my favourite.

Looking forward to the winter months to be able to start tinkering again, I digress......heres a couple of pictures at Goodwood, in the second one its off in the distance in front of the house:

[andream88]

Hi Andy.

I'd like to talk to you about your MINI via email.
Can you please send me a message with your email address so i can start asking you a couple of questions?

My email is my username @aliceposta.it!

Thanks
Andrea

[cptkirk]

Hi Andy.

I'd like to talk to you about your MINI via email.
Can you please send me a message with your email address so i can start asking you a couple of questions?

My email is my username @aliceposta.it!

Thanks
Andrea

Email sent......

[2lrminivan]

thought you might like some pics from yesterday at combe
will try and figure out how to get better pics on here and post more up later (cant seem to paste the img code)

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Edited by 2lrminivan, 25 September 2011 - 04:53 PM.