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[Artful Dodger]

nice!  coming along swimmingly!  schroth harnesses are the absolute nuts, real good!

[Tupers]

It's looking good Ben, you're doing better than me. 

[jonny f]

Looking good dude!

[Tupers]

Have you got any close up pictures of how your pedal box is mounted Ben? I've got the same one as you but I haven't settled on how to get held in yet. 

[benjy_18]

Tupers, it's just bolted through my miglia bulkhead with a large 3mm spreader plate, doesn't flex at all atm!

This will be painted before I go away!!! But until then, I mounted my alternator



Still plugging away but there isn't much exciting stuff really

Here it is as it stands

[benjy_18]

So I've been dormant for a while, whilst getting ready for my year away (working for extra cash etc)

The past week I had a bit of time to mess with some more fabrication.

I've now sorted the internal gear linkage, steering column and mount is well underway and I've figured out the positioning for all of my switches and dials.

Few photos for everyone...




Here's showing the position of some of the more important switches



And then some more lists and diagrams etc



The majority of other switches are to be mounted on the upper bar of the rollcage (roof bar) which are within easy reaching distance.

I'm hoping to keep the dash very simple but yet still with a nice race style.

Enjoy!

[benjy_18]

So seeing as I'm sat in a hostel some 6000 miles away I figured I'd put he last update on here (until june)

Spent my last few days at home tidying up the workshop and making sure the mini was nice and secure, clean and rust free. I'm hoping I've done enough to stop it deteriorating while I'm away but we shall see how it all works out.

So here's one last photo for you guys until I arrive home next year.



see you all soon.

[clovus]

Great thread! Dont know if I can wait until June before the next update...

[benjy_18]

So I've arrived home after my travels and the next morning I decided to go check out the shell, surprisingly everything looks almost as it was so I'm more than happy.

Once I'd written out a rough to do list, I decided I'd mess with a small project while I was there.
Shortly later and my steering column was finished. Next job is a new dash bar and finish the column mount. Then I'll be looking at paint and fitting some panels.





Ben

[benjy_18]

So the past weekend has seen the column mounted onto a new dash bar,

Nothing to difficult so I'll just throw up the photos, sure you guys can figure out what's gone on!






Ben

[benjy_18]

Dash bar and steering column mount are complete, added a few gussets and a plate to the top, also fitted the brake reservoirs and messed with the front end a little bit.

And sorted fuel tank mounting a planning lines and pumps etc







This weekend should see the doors lightened some more and a final assembly of the rear end.

If anybody has any old wrecked doors and they would like to chop out some of the top frame can you let me know, would like some small sections to get the frame fitting perfectly.

Ben

[SAL 821X]

Good to see Frumpy getting some love.

[benjy_18]

Ha thanks sal!

I've now got the rear end apart and it's being cleaned and painted, but I decided to take some more weight off the radius arms as I was there. Although I've now found that one of the bronze bushes has been reamed wrong so will have to get that fixed first!!

Will be prepped and painted in 6 weeks as I have a friend lending me a hand and a huge compressor, she will be in one colour soon enough!!!!

[clovus]

Updates?

[benjy_18]

Slow progress is being made, but a lot of it is redoing things as I haven't been happy with it (perils of having a year away to rethink everything I guess!!)

I'm just going to throw up a load of random photos rather than explain everything because I'll be here all day otherwise.