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[mk1leg]

Well its been a while since I last looked at this amazing Clubby transformation and work metal work is just brilliant ............and all tohse Idears you have .............keep pics comming............

[Tupers]

woooo, progress!!!
looks good though chris. cant wait to see it finished! might have to drive frumpy down once shes done and the pick up,estate and mine can have a lovely photoshoot haha

good luck wit hthe build buddy

That'd be cool, maybe we can get them together at Castle Comb this year.

Well its been a while since I last looked at this amazing Clubby transformation and work metal work is just brilliant ............and all tohse Idears you have .............keep pics comming............

Thanks fella, it's gunna be boring mechanical stuff for a while but it's all progress!!

Seen as I'm in front subframe mode I pulled a decent pair of top arms out and started cleaning them up. I used the die grinder with a 3" 40 grit disc and tungsten burr. I've taken all the casting marks out of one and smoothed as many of the pits out as possible without spend ing forever on them.

[benjy_18]

COME ON CHRIS!!!! wheres the progress at?

[animammel]

Great project, seriously fantastic. I know a lot of us take inspiration from this. Enjoyed reading this over the time. Gets me out in the cold making me want to finish my rebuild so thanks for that.

Keep up the craft

Chris

[Tupers]

COME ON CHRIS!!!! wheres the progress at?

It's all in me head.


Been working a lot of long hours recently so I've not had the time to do much work on FOM. Fortunately it does mean I can buy a bunch more parts on pay day.

[benjy_18]

deffinatly not good enough! haha joking. whats on the do to list and parts list then?

[Tupers]

deffinatly not good enough! haha joking. whats on the do to list and parts list then?

Not exactly sure on the to do list, there's definitely more that still needs doing than there is done.

The next big job's going to be getting a pair of subframes built up so I can work a few stance issues out.

[JonnyBMX]

wow, lovely work goin on here! never seen so much custom fabrictions! good work. hope it all goes well.

[Tupers]

wow, lovely work goin on here! never seen so much custom fabrictions! good work. hope it all goes well.

Thanks Jonny, it's nice to being doing something other than just patching rust and returning a car to it's standard form. The only draw back is the further I get into it the more I want to do and the longer it takes.


I figured I'd ought to throw you guys a little update shaped bone before everyone including myself forget about this build.

Seen as I'm waiting for an opening at the shot blaster I thought I'd jump ahead and start tidying up the front subframe. I hadn't planned on doing this but as the rest of the engine bay is so smooth it's seems a shame to have a rough looking sub.

I started out by cleaning up the area around the tower joints.


Once I was happy it was good and clean I welded up the grooves.


And then finished them off by dressing the welds down with a flap disc to give a nice smooth finish.




If all goes well tomorrow I'll be make some gussets for the tie bar mounts and figure out how far I'm going to take the smoothing.

I've also got all the parts I need to rebuild my top arms.

[Tupers]

I've not had the time or inclination to work on Fom recently but I have bought a nice set of brakes for him.



It's good know that when I do eventually get back on the road I'll also be able to slow down.

[benjy_18]

personally i think that you should be working on fom rather than buying some less than shiny parts for her! could have at least cleaned the discs up first chris!

im kidding! although its has been ages since your last update

Ben

[mini danny]

looking good there cant wait to see it finshed and cant wait to get mine finshed

[Tupers]

So now that I'm back to doing my normal hours at work I've finally had chance to get the estate underway again.

I decided to do a bit on the front frame starting with a pair of gussets for the tie rod mounts.


Managed to get some pretty decent welds on them considering I haven't picked up a torch in 4 months.




Then I ground down the vertical weld on the outside to make it look like it was part of the original mount.


I also decided to put a curve into the outer corner of the towers with the die grinder to make them look more symmetrical.

[Tupers]

Finally sorted out a rear subframe for the estate and boy is it holey.

My brother did all the holes with the intension of fitting it to his Mini but his plans have changed so now it's all mine. I just need to finish off the holes on the R/H leg and then flick some 2K satin black over it.

Edited by Tupers, 04 August 2011 - 08:09 PM.

[benjy_18]

so now your going to make the front match it, right?

looking good though, glad youve got back on it