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[minifreek1]

Went to a last minute retro meet with Minifreek  last night.. 

 

 

Was a nice meet too, very warm and welcoming if a tad cold by the end of the evening...

 

Id go again...

[greenmini1275]

Pulled my carpet out. Bit damp. Was also changing my window winders and snapped a screw in the mechanism. Nightmare, gonna need to get someone to drill it out and then tap it for me. Damn it.

[megamini_jb]

I too pulled all my carpet out to give it a good clean, a bit damp too. But the floor and sills were all lovely with no signs of repairs whatsoever, unlike my other mini which is currently having work done

[megamini_jb]

Also fitted some smaller standard seats as the ones that were in there were so high because of the custom subframes.

[Recogniseman]

Slapped DynoMatt (cheap equivalent) all over the bulkhead, behind the dash.

[Norfolk Boy]

Slapped DynoMatt (cheap equivalent) all over the bulkhead, behind the dash.

Have you had a chance to see/hear if it makes much difference?

[panky]

Stripped one side of the suspension to get the cone out. All pretty good except damper is not dampening anything 

 

and the cone is dead

 

 

 

 

What a swine that back bolt is on the retaining plate is to get to

Upper arm and bearings are like new

 

List of stuff has been compiled for the Minispares order.

[Readers14]

Finally finished painting my group 2 arches!
After rubbing down, 3 coats of primer, more rubbing down, 4 coats of gloss black, followed by 2 coats of metallic black base coat, more rubbing down & finally 2 coats of clear coat........ I am very much chuffed with the results.
Goes to show preparation & patience is the key to a good finish to painting.

The final base coat is SAAB Jet Black that I had left over in the garage. It's a very subtle metallic black but when it catches the sunlight it looks awesome!

[Recogniseman]

Slapped DynoMatt (cheap equivalent) all over the bulkhead, behind the dash.

Have you had a chance to see/hear if it makes much difference?

Not yet. Will put back together tomorrow and let you know. I imagine it will. I did the front floor and put a layer of rubber underlay down and it really helped a lot.

Edited by Recogniseman, 04 August 2017 - 09:39 AM.

[Wiggywithahailo]

Fitted my new rev counter and it works 👍🏻
https://imgur.com/a/xEdNv

[greenmini1275]

Put my carpet back in with some closed cell foam added to the back of it. Looks good 😊

[benm]

did some wiring, now the car won start, wooo

[Mat]

Started taking the engine out, for when the Hornet arrives.

[panky]

New doughnuts, dampers etc arrived from Minispares at half one this afternoon.

 

 

 

Old Vs new

 

 

By five o'clock I had the passenger side done and the drivers side in bits, cleaned up and the upper arm painted ready to finish off tomorrow.

 

Bit of a difference

 

 

 

I've actually got some suspension movement now, hopefully the height will settle a bit when driven - the front's got a bit of a Gasser look about it just now

Edited by panky, 08 August 2017 - 09:58 PM.

[Big Sam]

Attempted to remove the rear subframe, managed to get 1 of 4 of the boot bolts out (and that was by cutting the nut off!).

 

Going to need a dremel.