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[minimk1]

Check out this page and they all did it the same as me ? http://www.theminifo...corner-repairs/

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Also my cage is being welded to the car with gussets like these which will be welded to the pillars

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I see what you mean and although you are unable to see it in the picture the inside of the roof was actually cut so the repair pannel was longer here and therefore staggering the joint ? As the inside welds do not line out with the outside, is this what you mean as this was also the case for the lower part of the door frame I know it's hard to see and it looks like I did a straight swap but I actually cut the outside of the repair piece shorter than the inside, it's hard to explain but i did stagger the joints I was just unaware of this term ;) thanks for raising the issue though, and don't worry about criticising as this only makes me do a better job in the future

Edited by minimk1, 26 June 2013 - 09:12 AM.

[Ben_O]

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't criticising your work. You are doing a great job. Like you said, it looks as though you just did a straight cut across which would be a weak joint. I used to own a rover 100 years ago that had a bad repair on the pillar and I had an accident in it (hit someone square up the a$£e) and although it was fairly low impact the front crumpled up and the dodgy repair showed it ugly face and sheared almost in half breaking the windscreen.

As a panel beater staggering joints on this type of repair was one of first things I learnt and was always told how important this was to add strength to a vunerable area.

 

Keep up the good work mate

 

Ben

[minimk1]

Pics later :)

Edited by minimk1, 26 June 2013 - 11:31 AM.

[minimk1]

Yeah this mini has been a massive learning curve for me and I am soon to be doing a fabrication job at classic autos, they are going to train me up and I will be working there full time doing fabrication and not part time cleaning as I am now, although I can't complain all the guys there are great and I see my boss as more of a mate really and I get paid £5 an hour and I do it 4-6 on Wednesdays and Thursdays so it doesn't effect me much but it gets me £20 a week to spend on my car so it's not bad and plus its given me a permanent full time job when I'm old enough so I do take the work on my car seriously and try to do my best and love any advice I am given, today I'm trying to sort out the drivers side wing as the pattern fit has a lot to be desired so I shall post up pics later on

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Brought my roll cage today !!!!!!!

6 point bolt in cage from huddersfeild it's the 38mm CDs one so happy it should be here sometime next week cost me £270 which is nearly half the cost of the one from minispares

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Also dad treated me to a pair of twin 1.25 carbs off of ebay which look ace !!!

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Roll cage is arriving tomorrow I'm so exited ;))) have to say that huddersfeild have been very helpfull so far, also I'm welding plates in so does anyone know the right bolts I should use as I do not need the whole fitting kit and would be a wast of my hard earned £ ;) pictures tomorrow I promise

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Roll cage turned up at half 3 today here are the pics would have been here but for some reason they seem to be too big to upload so I shall sort things out in the Morning

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Struggling to upload my pictures for some reason my computor doesn't like it however I should be able to get some up tonight, I ordered some gravitex which came yesterday I managed to spray one half of the floor and wow that stuff is good, last night I ordered some BRAND NEW parts for my subframes, all the stuff I have purchased so far excluding the pannels has been used so having some new parts around is going to feel strange, there all for the front subframe as I will be sending both my subframes off for sandblasting and powder coating soon it includes the competition rubbers for the tie bars one being more stiff than the other

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Oh forgot to add that I will be doing up my subframes fairly standard to keep the costs down, as this will mean I can get the car done quicker and be able to drive it for my 17th in just over a years time, then when my car is done I can save up for the uprated parts such as upgraded heavy duty adjustable tie bars and camber kits, however the only exception to this will be my hi Los and kyb shocks wich are not standard, me and my dad fitted hi Los to the back of his mini two days ago and at the lowest point on them it looks like a street sleeper

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Edited by minimk1, 17 July 2013 - 10:41 AM.

[minimk1]

finally photobucket has let me upload my pictures the last ones of the hub are of todays work stripping the 7.5 brake setup and then cleaning and painting in industry grey which will look very nice next to the black subframe of the car and is nice to paint things a different colour other than black also all my rubbers are being replaced with the race spec hardened rubber for the tie bars i have the optimum kit with the softer rubber and harder rubber as in this case it is better for the handling if one of the rubbers are softer, off the top of my head i cant remember which way , also i borrowed a ratchet strap of our faithful mini friend/flatbed man "mini-dave" , so i will now be able to get my roll cage in and know where to weld in the plates, also me and my dad have totally stripped my rear subframe and now both subframes are ready to be blasted and powder-coated, hence the rebuild of all the suspension, also once i get round to buying more gravitex the underside of my car will be ready for some inca yellow paint which will be sprayed buy yours truly    and then put back on the car so it will be a rolling shell again whooooo however it will be rust freee!!!! well for the most part anyway      .  anyway here are the pictures 

 

more to come in just a sec >>>>>>

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oh almost forgot my roll cage damm the pics are on my phone i shall upload them later