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[minimissions]

Just clear coat it all and get her running

[megamini_jb]

Looks awesome on the ATS'!

I'm picking up my estate on Saturday and was considering putting my ATS' on it, but I'm going for force splits on it now.

[Tupers]

I tried watching the F1 this afternoon but nearly fell asleep so I thought I'd pop down the workshop and get the new seat hinges tacked in place. 

 

They don't swing forward by a huge amount but it's certainly more than it had originally and should dissuade any monsters from trying to get in the back. 

 

 

Seen as I was in the mood to play with seats I picked a pair of head rest out my pile of parts and tried them on the rear seat. They're from an '80s Mini originally are but exactly the same design as the rests on the front seats so should compliment then nicely. 

 

They don't do much for rear visibility but I'm not sure I'll be seeing much more than bumpers with the ride height I want. 

 

[Ben_O]

I like the idea of the rear headrests.

 

Ben

[Jared Mk3]

Nice idea with the headrests. Still can't believe how good those two front seats look.

[minimissions]

Thats going to be a really luxury style mini cant want to see it done :)

[Tupers]

It's going to be very plush inside, at the moment I'm saving for an english wheel so I can make a shaped alloy dashboard.  I had a pair of universal electric window mechanisms turn up today so the next job will be figuring out how to make them work in the back. 

[Tupers]

I decided to stay on at the workshop this evening and get some long awaited work done. 

 

I've have the headlight backing panels kicking around for a while but finished them off this evening with a little filler piece on the inner corner.

 

 

It's really good to see them welded in a linished down. Now I just need to put some rivnuts in to mount the headlamp bowls.  

 

 

 

One of the big stumbling block as far as progress goes was the mechanism for the rear side windows. I've had a play with a few modern OEM options as the majority of side windows are curved now so none of them really worked. Fortunately I was able to pick up a set of these straight tracked universal mechanisms. 

 

They do need about 8 inches chopping off the top but aside from that they're perfect. 

 

Now that I know what I'm building the windows around I've started making more pieces for the side window frames starting with this piece of steel with lots of lines on. 

 

After lots of folding and twisting I got this tapered section with a different profile at each end.

 

 

 

It's hard to see in the light but the profile is flat at the top and then rotates 45* at the bottom to push the bottom of the glass away from the body like it is on the doors. 

 

 

It's all looking like something that might actually work now. 

 

[Jared Mk3]

Keen to see how this pans out. Great idea 

[jagman.2003]

Great work, many very good ideas. Good job.

[Chris1992]

this whole project is just bananas. so awesome

[domdee]

What a treat this is

[projectjordan]

awesome work, do you mind if i ask, where you sourced the elec window kit?

 

cheers

 

ryan

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