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[alexcrosse]

superb progress mate, will be a good tool!.

Just noticed your from Banbury, where about are you working on the car? im 20 seconds away from you in cropredy.

Cheers

Al

[CobraV8]

That is certainly getting along now, looking good. It will be cool when done.

What brand are the wheels? They would be perfect on my Escort Mk1 with bubble guards.

[kmol468]

Alex, I'm in Cherwell heights, but sadly all the complicated work is being done elsewhere by professionals, as I didn't fancy messing it up myself. When it's running your more than welcome to come have a look at it.
Cobrav8, the wheels are 'revolution minators' got them from a welsh rally shop on eBay, just type in '8 x 13 ford wheels' and they should turn up. He also does different sizes etc and models and is very knowlegable. If your having trouble finding him drop me a pm and will send you a link.

[Guess-Works.com]

Nice engineering project...

When's the IVA/SVA booked ?

Edited by Guess-Works.com, 13 March 2010 - 07:59 AM.

[kmol468]

SVA? Surely not! Lol. The log book will say it's a mini, and it will be in the shape of a mini, albeit it with a slightly different engine, which will be reflected in the log book. So as long as it passes an mot then it will be road legal without the need for an sva/iva!

[dazzler-pws]

SVA? Surely not! Lol. The log book will say it's a mini, and it will be in the shape of a mini, albeit it with a slightly different engine, which will be reflected in the log book. So as long as it passes an mot then it will be road legal without the need for an sva/iva!

LOL

Great project but you will defo get tugged and have your logbook revoked!

Edited by ringonezero, 14 March 2010 - 04:49 PM.

[HARBER07]

X2

Nice project, but this NEEDS an IVA

Edited by HARBER07, 14 March 2010 - 04:30 PM.

[rick.spi]

sorry but considering there sayying even a weber box requires an IVA then this most definitly will

loving the project tho.

[*franky*]

what they dont KNOW wont harm them

[kmol468]

Been able to take a couple of snaps...
Theres a few panels arrived, namely a couple of outer sills, scuttle repair panels, boot rear valance, so those are to fit as and when...

However work has started on the roll cage with the main hoop in and the door bars being mocked up









For those wanting to check out the space at the front end - and thats with an extra 6"



Hopefully soon to sorted is the matching bonnet, which now needs abit of chopping to clear the cambelt, ecu with suitable chip, wasted spark and IAW monitor so I can check and fault check the status of the engine.

[kmol468]

Once again, my weekly update and a few more pictures......

I think you can now savely car my car a car
- the floor is taking shape, ie the big hole that ran the width of the mini is filled,
- the footwells have been covered as the sierra had lots of little slots in it,
- rear boot section has been sectioned off
- the sills are looking abit more respectable
- the rear bench has been completely removed, just leaving the parcel shelf
- rear valance has been tidied

however I will let the pictures do the work of explaining things



















Thats all for another couple of weeks folks...

hmmmmm im still in a pickle though a .48 exhaust housing or a .63 ????? i just cant decide......

[alexcrosse]

whos doing the work on this then? good progress by the way mate, looking forward to seeing it progress even more

[kmol468]

I'm using local businesses, as it's surprising what types of companies are right on your doorstep, well in my case on the local industrial estate!

[alexcrosse]

is it that place near CTG on the overthorpe estate?

[kmol468]

It is indeed, i'm a CTG customer aswell!