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[prometheus]

erm is gonna look sweet, nice work there and i look forward to seeing him all finished

[minimuk]

Waw, great colour, very proud indeed. I am sure you are both happy to have her back. And now the fun begins, good luck.

[1964Woody]

looking great- especially the roof. Keep up the good work.

[STREET TWEAKS]

looks well nice matey come and get mine to the same standard plz lol

[analogue_radio]

Well worth the ballache!

[Mini_Matt]

Ive been looking to this part. Now you can start putting together and you will start to notice it move along nice. Congrats.

[minimininut]

Haven't been on TMF much this year, great to catch up on project Erm. Nightmare with the paint, but love the colour and especially the grey roof! Enjoy putting everything back together and hope any little paint niggles get sorted before any fuses blow!

[sonikk4]

Cheers everybody, hopefully the rest of the car will be in our possession soon. Starting masking up today to do the interior paint so managed to get a coat of etch on the dash rail and upper rail along with the cross member.

Trialled the new paint i bought from Ketts to see if it reacts with any of the other stuff i have been using and so far all is good so at least that's another worry out of the way. Made a bit of a blunder with the Upol filler primer, i thought it came in one colour Grey so i assumed that with the one i picked it up but it's bloody beige. Bugger so will now have to buy another tin as i want the interior paint to be a good match with the external paintwork.

Started the flatting process and so far its come up well. I've used 2000 wet and dry with lots of soapy water then G3 paste, Perfect III and finally 3M Polish Rosa.

Doing it by hand is hard work so one rear quarter took just over an hour, not sure if i want to keep doing that so may have to invest in a mop.

[danie garry]

i tried doing 1 wing by hand the first time i done the car......i stopped and went out for a polisher!! the cars looking great

[RichardBrown]

would u sell the orginal door cards u have on the mini?
i want them to replace my late cooper ones

[scsracing]

would u sell the orginal door cards u have on the mini?
i want them to replace my late cooper ones

I am afraid they got binned ages ago,the were ruined anyway so not much use

[scsracing]

Well the interior is now starting to get painted.The dash rails have got a coat of etch first as they were taken back to bare metal earlier.

All the exit holes for the paint were masked up as over spray wouldn't look to good on the outside .A few bits where left out to gain access.





Filler primer was used first to try and get the best finish possible even though most of it will be hidden.







The some of the tartan red paint applied.The inside of the car was like a fume cupboard





Alot of the areas still need going over again or flatting back.In the places where you will not see we are just going to use some mazda classic red as its alot cheaper per can and it is nearly the same colour

[MINI-TURBO]

how you getting on flatting it back and how did the mazda red turn out?

[scsracing]

Well today got some more paint thrown at it.The boot was re primed and had top coat added.Inside the dash rails had been flatted and more painted added along with the bins,cross member and rear window frames.At this point we ran out of the paint so used the rest of the primer to do the floors and went off to buy some more paint for tommorrow







Hopefully tomorrow the rest of the interior should be finished and then the damaged stone chip can be fixed along with repainting where we had painted in the arches as a the spray shop they had over sprayed some areas.

[scsracing]

Well we are nearly at the end stage of painting now finally.At the weekend I finished spraying the inside and then today my dad repainted the arches/sills to cover the over spray from the bodyshop and sorted out the damage they did to the sill.He also sprayed the bottom of the front bulkhead as we completely forgot about this bit until now.

As the body shop managed to dent the sill it had to be hammered out.This cracked the stone chip so that had to be redone in areas but just as before when the whole underside was sprayed the dam stuff reacted so after applying some filler to act as a barrier and then stone chipping over it has worked out perfect and you can't see where the damage was now .

Just the roof seam to sort out now and then the subframes can go on and this project might actually get back on its wheels Tomorrow/Saturday my dad will be finishing paddy's sill/flitch out so that ERM can go back to his side of the garage to receive his rebuild

Edited by scsracing, 05 May 2011 - 04:51 PM.