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[mini_mad69]

Spent more time on them, and got a pretty good finish on that one, now to do the others and paint them.



A panel off, and biiiiiiig hole.



Door off



Ummmmmm.............door :)



Patern



Patch welded in.

Just the same again on the other side, and the shock mount. And that looks to be most of the rust gone!!!

I need to do loads of grinding back, and start paint prep.

Not sure if im going to go for fixed a-panels or removable ones attached to the front end.

Edited by mini_mad69, 12 March 2012 - 07:07 PM.

[mini_mad69]

Right, enough arsing about! I want all the welding finished by the end of the month.

[mini_mad69]

Wanted a rolling shell today, but big holes slowed progress, so i chucked the front frame on so i can jack it up on that and weld up the hole where the blocks were.

Its just that bit of welding on the flitch, and offside shock mount and that should be all the rot gone.


Hopefully rust free rolling shell by the end of the month.

[vini]

glad to see im not the only one chasing the rot lol Dean

[mini_mad69]

Yeah, almost done now though

Then it's spanner time, which is what I actually like doing!

[mini_mad69]

I got a new flitch panel and cut it down to what I needed. Unfortunatly my welder has gone wrong and won't penetrate or just plain work.



Bottom patch went in ok, but not great.



Fitted my rear beam back in so I could move it about and tidy up the garage.



It needs an engine to bring that front end down!

So I need to finish off the welding on the front right. and the shell is not far off ready for paint prep.

[mini_mad69]

That should do.

[mini_mad69]

Got my F13 box bolted up, only a couple of bolts to make sure it fits.



Rolled it out into the sunshine to turn it around.





And back in.



Engine looks huge compared to the car!



Hole



Sorted the welder and got the flitch in.



It had quite a bit of work done around here.



Cut out all the rot, but im not fixing it until I wire brush all the rust out and get some paint in there.



Ben

[mini_mad69]

Got it roughly in





Sump sit's on the frame though



Might fit

[HARBER07]

That will do man, just leave it like that. Less weight too.

[mini_mad69]

yup..............done!

[mini_mad69]

I got some engine mounts, not sure how good they will be, but will try them.
As you can see the sump is sitting on the frame, so I need to get hold of a steel one rather than the cast aluminium one I have now.



Got the shock welded up, so looooads of grinding back and pretty much all the rust is gone! Just need my gas bottle filled up so I can weld up some strengthening plates for the floor subframe mounts and cage mounts. But that can wait for a bit.



I don't know why, but i love the look of twin cam pulleys, kinda motivates me a bit.

Ben

[The Matt]

moved and title changed............that'll do pig?

[mini_mad69]

Yeah that'll do!!!

Officially not pulled along by a lump of pig iron now

[mini_mad69]

Did alot of cutting out ready for some lighter parts.



Picked up some parts from a mate breaking his project.

Another allspeed subframe
MPI Tank
Fuel lines
Allspeed driveshafts
Diesel gearbox
Hydraulic clutch slave
vauxhall/mini loom
fibreglass rear valance
fibreglass boot floor
fibreglass front end
radiator
Some plumbing
Fuel pump

I have a carbon boot floor but it's not great so will probably use the fibreglass one.



Allspeed shafts



Allspeed frame/diesel box



Full boot



BMW full of mini bits.



This is the carbon boot floor, that I probably won't use.



I do like the carbon though :)

I'll get some better picture, and maybe some progress tomorrow :)

Ben