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[grahama]

No idea what the next bit is but looks good on the door. How much are you intending to carbinise ? Dash ?? or just a few small bits? Great build though all in all.

[liam-ds]

No idea what the next bit is but looks good on the door. How much are you intending to carbinise ? Dash ?? or just a few small bits? Great build though all in all.

thanks graham minght seen a but weird when its pulled out and its fitted . Uhmm don't know yet just sticking at the small parts at the moment but Ive always like the idea of a carbon dash but its money ill see how things go .Thanks yours is coming along well now haven't posted yet but i'm keeping a eye on it a rust free shell is some achievement

Liam

[liam-ds]

hi all got the surprise part released from the mold it didn't got too well haha the epoxy had bubbled and it looked a mess so Ive scrapped that idea it was a part off the wiper motor the front face part if you know what i mean. got my door scoops lacquered today (no i dont have 3 doors ) before anyone asks. im hopefully going to have these fitted tomorrow as im going to a club meet and bonfire so want them fitted anyway heres a few pics

all done







all opinions welcome Liam

[liam-ds]

hi all got the scoops fitted look very good went to the club bonfire was a good night interesting drive home though heater wouldn't clear the window so next job on list is a two speed heater trying to find one at the moment to rebuild and replace the one i have in now also a club member a member on here as well kinky kyle made up some club cards so now have these sat in my front screen anyway enough form me here's a few pics

all fitted back up





club cards



all opinions welcome Liam

[liam-ds]

hi all after passing my driving test in November i have been using the car pretty much everyday in all weathers and absolutely loving it well was until it got really cold and the heater turned out to be pretty naff dosent help when heater valve is shut and the cable is not connected neither. last sunday it was our club meet and it was very cold must have been -4 ish and the inside of the windscreen froze up cleared it but with the heater being naff by the time i was home all the windows had frozen backup and i had only a little hole to see out of glad my house was just down road from meeting place for that week . so i set about getting a new heater luckly a good friend of mine has a spare mini and i asked if i could borrow the heater out of that one he said yep so i now have a single speed later style heater fitted the diffrence is amazing it clears the widscreen in no time also bought a heater cable so i now have a fully functioning heater .

enough waffle heres a few pics of changing the heater over and sorting out my spaghetti wiring

one frozen window on the inside



the proof it was frozen this was scraped off when i got home





so out with the old and in with the new



having to find a new earth point for all my wires so the dash had to come out





the car is all back together now and the heater works great 100% better than the old one will be updating with more stuff very soon

sorry for pic quality was taken with my phone

all opinions welcome Liam

[evansisgreat]

Love your build, hadn't looked at it in ages and I didn't realise it was yourself who was doing the centre consoles, one of which I'll be ordering in the new year.

Love the colour, love your windows and door cards, love your car. Keep up all the little touches, I think it's those that makes a mini, your mini.

[liam-ds]

Love your build, hadn't looked at it in ages and I didn't realise it was yourself who was doing the centre consoles, one of which I'll be ordering in the new year.

Love the colour, love your windows and door cards, love your car. Keep up all the little touches, I think it's those that makes a mini, your mini.

thanks looks like ill have to get a few made to get in front then going to be a busy bunny. thanks there will be a few little changes to come up soon just little niggly problems that im going to fix. it was your build thread that inspired my door cards plus the fact that i needed to hide my electric window motors

Liam

[liam-ds]

hi all happy new year got a full set of rubber cones fro Christmas so fitted the rear ones going to fit the fronts once i have my cone compressor back lent it to a friend so will be fitting them soon. does anyone have any idea where my car could be leaking in water? has had new check strap seals etc and all new door seals well all the seals are new so its baffling me does anyone have any ideas. anyway enough blab here's a few pics from changing the rear cones

2 weeks worth of salt



new cones compared to the old ones





all opinions and suggestions on the water leak welcomed many thanks Liam

[1987MiniParkLane]

Love this car!!

Are you doing L2B again this year?

[liam-ds]

Love this car!!

Are you doing L2B again this year?

thank you :) yep will be there (hopefully) if exams dont collide with the show i will find that out in the next few days

Liam

[Risky]

One small tip: you should use copper grease when using hi-lo's. I did that myself and they won't corrode solid like that. To prevent corrosion of the surface you could consider painting them ;)

[1987MiniParkLane]

Any updates on this? :)

[liam-ds]

One small tip: you should use copper grease when using hi-lo's. I did that myself and they won't corrode solid like that. To prevent corrosion of the surface you could consider painting them ;)

hi i used copper grease on them in the first place the corrosion was just from the threads that i had cleaned off to stop muck sticking bad idea haha they where free just looked a bit of a mess

Any updates on this? :)

hi yep there will be in the next few week got exams etc coming up next week and a few more in the next few weeks but after that i will be fitting the new front cones and my twin su's that i have just started to strip and polish up just got to modify them and the manifold and rebuild then fit and have a lot of fun setting them up thanks for the bump too

Liam

[liam-ds]

hi all update time ive have (hopefully ) finally tracked down and fixed all my water leaks into the car found out that the door seals where gathering water for so long then it was running into the car so have cured that but cutting two little notches out of the seals i can see day light through them so water should follow that path out onto the door step. before the leak was fixed the car had to sit out side for a week over Christmas bad idea i could actually ring out the water from the carpets . i have also over the past few days started to polish my twin carb setup only had them for nearly 3 months now the one i started to experiment on is looking great now think iam going to be ordering the rebuild kits end of this month once the bits have come i can totally strip and vizard the internals . anyway enough form me here's a few pics of what been happening

came out of sixth form to find del boy had parked next to me



after carpets where dry should have took a pic of before





the carbs









also what air filters would be best for the carbs? i like the look of the ITG kit but dont have that kind of money

thanks for looking all opinions welcome

Liam

Edited by liam-ds, 10 January 2012 - 08:15 PM.

[liam-ds]

Hi all going got exams starting tomorrow for a few weeks in between the exams i will be doing a little work on the carbs towards the end of Jan start of Feb ill be getting the rebuild kits and modifying the inlet manifold. one question as this is my daily drive what does everybody think to running ram pipes with filter socks on? with it been a daily drive i need a decent set up

all opinions welcome Liam