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[Artful Dodger]

those seats are cool, do you cover them with anything or leave them as they are, and i did have one but i kinda stopped posting pics and things because i was working on it in 2-3 hour stints and didnt really make any hard progress, this has all changed now... its on page 11 of complete mini rebuilds and called 'mini clubman gt racer'

Edited by MiniclubmanGT, 25 April 2011 - 08:36 AM.

[benjy_18]

the seats can be left as they are, but i know that jk composites sell a cushioning set so ill save up some money for those once ive re-painted the seats

[benjy_18]

got some work done on frumpy today, nothing major really as the front floor started to really annoy me!

i managed to weld in the rear of the new floor and started to try and line everything else up. now this is where it got to me, where the floor has been repaired previously they had welded a pattern floor over the old one. which meant that i had to cut out both floors. this has left me with about 3 inches on the front and the tunnel that im going to hve to make up myself to fill the gap



after i got annoyed i decided to start on my boot install which made it seem like the back of the car was nearing completion


lined up the boot and found that the centre of the hinge panel needs to be pulled out slightly.

started by making the speaker rings and mounting them onto the side boards.



next i cut a hole that will be filled with a sheet of perspex to see the alloy fuel tank


then i covered the two rings with felt




thanks for viewing
Ben

[MINI-TURBO]

I like what you are doing to your boot, its going to be a nice car when your done

[benjy_18]

I like what you are doing to your boot, its going to be a nice car when your done

cheers buddy, your projects looking pretty good by the way (Y)

[MINI-TURBO]

cheer mate, i have a week off work so ill be working on it every day this week

[benjy_18]

nice one, hope you get lots done (Y) hows the shed/house coming along?

[MINI-TURBO]

its good mate, were just waiting for the roof tiles to get delivered then we can do the roof.

[benjy_18]

not long now till your out there all day and night then haha

[MINI-TURBO]

ye hopefully the roof wil be on next week

[benjy_18]

okay so i did a little bit more on the boot today before and after college first job was to coat the enclosures with resin. once this was done i left it to dry while i was at college.
once i came back i set to work cutting out the rest of the speaker ring and making sure it all fits in the boot.
its quite a simple build but it makes the boot look so much better already.

heres a few pictures

[Tupers]

Install looks wicked Ben, where's the fuel filler going?

[benjy_18]

Install looks wicked Ben, where's the fuel filler going?

cheers chris, the filler is going to be mounted behind the numberplate on the bootlid, but not actually on the bootlid. ill make up a small plae on the inside of the boot and cut a hole if the boot lid. this way it can be filler with the boot open or closed

[benjy_18]

small update,
put a thick layer of 450 CSM on the boxes so tomorrow i can sand them down and tidy them up and get them ready to be covered.

also phoned up alloy racing fabrications today and ordered my fuel tank, perfect blokes!. there going to put on an unthreaded filler neck so that i can connect my hose to it for the filler in the boot and fitting a sender and some extra internal baffles(Y)

pictures



Ben

[MINI-TURBO]

lookin good mate, are you going to put a thin layer of fine filler once you have sanded the fibreglass, and i like the sound of your petrol tank