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[Hekmat]

Have managed to get some more things done, no pics this time around. Have finally decided to roller paint the car.

Most of the work is been around getting the back/boot sorted out, added filler to cover the welding work.

Removed the side windows and the 4 layers of paint, painted the edged and corners that are hard to get to using an artist brush. Should be sanding and applying the second tomorrow.

Have finished painting the rear bins and wheel arches.

Finally started on the wiring and have managed to prep some of the looms for the dash (Jupitus if you are reading this, expect a PM in the next few days if I get stuck).

Time for dinner, better go before the wife decides Albert has to go.

[Hekmat]

Well thanks to rain, it has been a slow progress. Slight change of plans, I have decided it is best to string the sides and paint them while the doors and side windows are out. So the side are not stripped and clean and ready to be painted.

Having tested Rusto-leum on the small part of the body it looks good, so out comes the roller to do the rest of the side, hopefully some pics later on today (subject to the heavy rains forcasted for today).

[feybrand]

nice work so far how difficult is the edead stuff to work with im planning on putting it everywhere on my car once the welding and respray is done

[PNL629G]

That's starting to look much better! Can't beat a lot of solid metal going in to get your spirits up! You sure about de-bumpering? Always looks to me like rust has been cut out and smoothed over...maybe that's just me though! Whatever you choose - it's coming together well!

[Hekmat]

nice work so far how difficult is the edead stuff to work with im planning on putting it everywhere on my car once the welding and respray is done

It is very easy, simply peal the plastic and stick it on. I am using a wall paper roller to make sure they stick nicely. One advice, cut the to fit roughly to the area, stick it on then cut the corners.

More pics to come in the next couple of days with eDead everywhere (subject to weather).

[Hekmat]

That's starting to look much better! Can't beat a lot of solid metal going in to get your spirits up! You sure about de-bumpering? Always looks to me like rust has been cut out and smoothed over...maybe that's just me though! Whatever you choose - it's coming together well!

I know what you mean, we did replace the rear of the boot with new panel but I kind of like de-bumped minis, although is alot more work to make sure is all nice and smooth.

[Hekmat]

Right, as promised here are some pics of the newly painted panels (not the whole car yet). It is pretty amazing, it took around 300 ml of paint and 200 ml of thinner and got 2 coats on the sides and the back (had to through a small amount away). So far good results, I will be flattening and painting again today, hopefully by the end of the week should have 4-5 coats on there and then leave it for a month to settle before lacqure and polish.

Left hand side (you can just about see the inside after 4 coats)
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Back of the car after 2 coats, already has a good shine:
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Right hand side (tight angle had to take that way):
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I am thinking about remove the rear and front wheels/dampers and doing the inside of the arches with couple of coats. I might just to that this week.

[Big Man]

Right, as promised here are some pics of the newly painted panels (not the whole car yet). It is pretty amazing, it took around 300 ml of paint and 200 ml of thinner and got 2 coats on the sides and the back (had to through a small amount away). So far good results, I will be flattening and painting again today, hopefully by the end of the week should have 4-5 coats on there and then leave it for a month to settle before lacqure and polish.

Left hand side (you can just about see the inside after 4 coats)
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Back of the car after 2 coats, already has a good shine:
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Right hand side (tight angle had to take that way):
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I am thinking about remove the rear and front wheels/dampers and doing the inside of the arches with couple of coats. I might just to that this week.

Cracking results...watching this thread with great interest and keep up the goo dwork.

BM

[Hekmat]

Well it has been a while since my last update. I was busy with family visiting from all over the world (Canada, Dubai, Germany and USA), so has taken me a while to get things going again.

Have done a fair bit since the last update, the body paint work is not complete and flattened back. I have stripped the roof and painted while (pics to follow), last coat went on today. I removed the entire headlining and should be putting the new one in there tomorrow.

Built a new dash with a different design to go in there, it was nightmare since you can not simply divide the car in 2 halfs, each side has slightly different measurments.

All the wheels have been stripped and grinded, ready for polish now. I have not changed the tyres as yet since I have not decided if I should carry on running the car on the 5.5X12 or 7X13s.

All things going well (specially the wiring), I should have it completed by this weekend and ready for MOT next week.

Will add loads of pics tomorrow with the details.

[Jupitus]

Nice one fella... looking forward to the pics

[Hekmat]

Well here are some pics from a while back when I stripped the frond dash and took all the wires in to the engine bay. Can you guess which wire goes where?


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If yes I need your help


Interesting way of connecting the wires, I am surprised it did not catch fire :

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Here is the garden turned into a paint shop:

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I will get some of the car tommorow.

Any ideas, how to clean the rust on the break discs, should I just sand it with 320g?

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Edited by Hekmat, 19 September 2009 - 08:15 PM.

[Jupitus]

Looking good, my friend

You have the same trampoline as us too!

For the disks, I would be tempted to just put them on as is - it will rub off very quickly you just need to be careful braking for the first few times

[Hekmat]

Well after finding out my car was some how not road worthy (re-shelled). I found another ligit car and started transferring everything over to the new car. Luckily the new car cost me around £200 so not too high of price for the hard work done on the other one.

I have started cleaning out the car and finding all the rust areas, although the car has been sitting since 1997 is not so bad and needs couple of welding patches and sills to be done. The car has gone for welding now and should be back next week so I start the paint work and transfering things over.

The good news is that the wirning is in a good state so not much work needed there.

Pics to follow.

[Mini Basher]

Well after finding out my car was some how not road worthy (re-shelled). I found another ligit car and started transferring everything over to the new car. Luckily the new car cost me around £200 so not too high of price for the hard work done on the other one.

I have started cleaning out the car and finding all the rust areas, although the car has been sitting since 1997 is not so bad and needs couple of welding patches and sills to be done. The car has gone for welding now and should be back next week so I start the paint work and transfering things over.

The good news is that the wirning is in a good state so not much work needed there.

Pics to follow.

You must be gutted after all the hard work you put into Albert, how did it come about that it was unroadwothy (re-shelled) good luck with the next shell

Andy

[Hekmat]

You must be gutted after all the hard work you put into Albert, how did it come about that it was unroadwothy (re-shelled) good luck with the next shell

Andy

Well I was looking for the right wiring diagram to follow for the wiring and Dan (from this forum) found it odd that the shell looked like a MK4 so after doing some checking I found it was a MK4 with a different Chassis number on the shell. So the plan is to transfer everything that I can from this car and then chop it up or scrap it. Someone I know locally said he might be interested in the shell as donor body parts.