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[davetherave1985]

painted the coilover brackets to day as the power coat was coming off also painted the steering arms

and the new built backing plates built that i brought from mini sport as they were scratched on the back

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

That sounds cool, and looks amazing! well done.

Try embedding the pictures to each post using the IMG tags, more people will comment on the thread because its less effort than clicking the link and cycling through themselves!

If you need help on how to do it let me know

[davetherave1985]

yeah help would be great as new to using the mini forum

[davetherave1985]

ahh right think i know what your on about now

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Okay, cool.

You will see on each picture that you have on your photobucket, if you click it you have 4 links to the left of the picture (As below)



If you go down to IMG code and click, it will say "copied"



This is now on your clipboard, so when you go to write the post, you can right click the text box and click paste, and the link will appear, when you click post the picture will appear in the post you made.

[davetherave1985]

cheers craig really appreciate that mate

[davetherave1985]

rite not up dated in a few days painted steering arms' engine and gear box steadies and lower arm bolts yesterday

going in to work now to finish building front sub frame up and get it bolted in

going to start to flat and polish the doors' boot and bonnet and flat the shell to give it another coat of lacquer to get a better finish

will post pictures later

[davetherave1985]

on the way to work yesterday had some one smash in to the front of my mondeo so pain in the ass got to sort that out

managed to put sub frame together try to get it in this week but got to sort mondeo out first (

[davetherave1985]

had to go to engineering place yesterday to get some special bolts to go throw top arm and hold the coil over bracket in place

also had to get the right size spring washers for bolts that hold coil over brackets to inner wings

cooper greased all bolts on sub frame at lunch time today

been bizzy with work this week so not as much done as i would like but got all day tomorrow 12.00 on wards

so put front sub frame in for def also get my radius arms back tomorrow from my mate so will hopefully get ream axle beam in this weekend
and get it rolling

[davetherave1985]

keep forgetting to take camera in to work but will take some more photos tomorrow

got sub frame in saturday just need to put rear sub frame mounts on need another pair of hands to lift front end up

got radius arms back to day so can now crack on with fitting the rear axle beam in this week

so hopefully will have it rolling this week

[davetherave1985]

finally got around to taking some pics heres some pics of the brake set up

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00607.jpg

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00602.jpg

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00601.jpg

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00597.jpg

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heres sub frame bolted in with polly bushes

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00599.jpg

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00608.jpg

its going quiet well at the moment will finish front sub frame off tomorrow 2 tear drop polly bushes to go in and all done

will get rear axle in this week to

[daveeeeee]

love the colour, look forward to seeing it finished

[davetherave1985]

right haven't updated in a while so heres a update

got the fronted sumframe built up with wheels bolted on had some 10s from a mate a while back back but they are knackered so put some 12s on for now
http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00616.jpg

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00617.jpg

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00622.jpg

i had to reinforce the rear turrets as well for the coil overs didn't know this until after i painted the shell heres the before and after photo

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00609.jpg
section im welding in

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00611.jpg

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00613.jpg

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00618.jpg
welded in and painted

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00621.jpg

axle beam fitted in place

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00623.jpg

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00624.jpg

had to cut off part of radius arm where old suspension sat as it was catching on the axle beam

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00627.jpg

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00626.jpg

radius arms painted

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00628.jpg

http://i833.photobuc...85/DSC00630.jpg

should get rear axle beam built up tomorrow and fitted in

[davetherave1985]

just waiting on some longer wheel studs for the mini fins and a load more stuff to come from mini sport and then i can crack on again

[davetherave1985]

good times are here finally got the mini rolling whoop whoop lol

had to put steels on with small studs untill the long ones arrive today but got it rolling photos upload soon as i get chance

rear beam was not to bad to put in as i thought i had a Huddersfield one and only here bad things about them but after cutting the lugs of the radius arms and a little alignment issues nothing to bad i got it in

decided to respray the mini as well due to the fact it was a little transparent on one wing and a panel 100 times happier this time looks great

so now start making some really good progress with getting it back together got this week off but cant spend any time on it as took two weeks of this year so far to get it done and if i don't spend this week with the missis i prob will be single pretty soon mini/misses mini/misses umm lol