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[jonny f]

vf

Edited by jonny f, 12 July 2014 - 11:06 PM.

[blue blood]

Hey I really like the look of the internal gear linkage set up :) I think I may order my pedal box Start of January :)
Blue

[jonny f]

Hey I really like the look of the internal gear linkage set up :) I think I may order my pedal box Start of January :)
Blue

Thanks Blue.

I need to bend the nearside in the pictures as it doesn't sit flat against the tunnel. Also i think i have the front part facing the wrong direction.

Do it. Then i can see how it fits and maybe order the same one!

cheers

Edited by jonny f, 24 December 2012 - 07:55 PM.

[mad mk1]

Looks the right way around to me mate.

[jonny f]

Looks the right way around to me mate.

I'll leave it like that then.

cheers.

[tedmcedd]

Looking good!

Clever idea using a reclaimed handbrake bracket!

Ed

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Coming on well mate, cant be far off finished now!

[jonny f]

Looking good!

Clever idea using a reclaimed handbrake bracket!

Ed

Thanks Ed!

Coming on well mate, cant be far off finished now!

Still probably got a year to go to be honest!

[jonny f]

Stripped and rebuilt the switch panel. A new switch for 2 speed wipers,some paint and a momentary switch for the horn as i won't have a center push. May have to change it around a bit as its a bit of reach with the seat being moved back.

Edited by jonny f, 01 January 2013 - 08:17 PM.

[jonny f]

Chopped a few kilos worth of old rotten wood panels out from the inside. Not going to put them back in. Although they probably worked well originally even making it a bit more rigid.

[blue blood]

Woow I don't think mine had that much wood in. Where the hell did all that come from? Is that the rear card panels? Oh yeah as regard to the wilwood pedals I have been looking at rallydesigns on price for a set of the nicer looking pedals and the snazzy wilwood compact remote reservoirs. I think all in comes to about £400 odd, but i'm wondering if they'd offer a discount for multiple orders. I think it would be better this way because all your paying for with the minitec kit is the bog standard wilwood unit and a piece of 3mm mild steel bent and drilled and to be honest the nature of our cars show we have enough fabrication skill to make our own adaption plate+the fact that they are minus' and sods law we order the minitec version and it just won't fit!!!

Regards Blue

[jonny f]

Woow I don't think mine had that much wood in. Where the hell did all that come from? Is that the rear card panels? Oh yeah as regard to the wilwood pedals I have been looking at rallydesigns on price for a set of the nicer looking pedals and the snazzy wilwood compact remote reservoirs. I think all in comes to about £400 odd, but i'm wondering if they'd offer a discount for multiple orders. I think it would be better this way because all your paying for with the minitec kit is the bog standard wilwood unit and a piece of 3mm mild steel bent and drilled and to be honest the nature of our cars show we have enough fabrication skill to make our own adaption plate+the fact that they are minus' and sods law we order the minitec version and it just won't fit!!!

Regards Blue

Yea it was the rear door card panel bits. Also the bits that make up the inner sill. it was all quite rotten as you can see! I have yet to take out the very front section. Think I will do it though. Then the cage can be tied into the angle iron that's in the car already, its quite rusty though.

That sounds like a good idea. What do you mean by the fancy pedals? I thought the mini-tec one was fancy?

[blue blood]

The fancy type :

http://www.rallydesi...oducts_id=15586

The not as fancy looking type:

http://www.rallydesi...roducts_id=4074

Fancy type allows pedals to be adjusted and removed which is hand with the large UJ's on the old steering column/rack.

Regards Blue

[ChopperHarris]

Hi Ive built a Minus about 20 years ago. Some of the wood serves a structural purpose, not because of the inherrent strength of the wood, but because of the way the fubreglass forms "box" around it.
A good way to add strength is to use rope and fibreglass that in to form ribs. I did this on the roof of mine to allow a headlining to be screwed to it.

[jonny f]

Hi Ive built a Minus about 20 years ago. Some of the wood serves a structural purpose, not because of the inherrent strength of the wood, but because of the way the fubreglass forms "box" around it.
A good way to add strength is to use rope and fibreglass that in to form ribs. I did this on the roof of mine to allow a headlining to be screwed to it.

I see what you mean with the box section. I'm not really going to need it though as my rollcage will be tied in around the shell, almost like a space frame. The wood was also very rotten and you could push your finger through it along the inner sill part!

The rope and fibreglass is a really good idea.