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[BenH]

Dammm Photobuckets down for maintennance so untill then i cant upload anymore!

[BenH]

Wheels are now black, scrapped the force racing idea and booked a holiday to greece instead!
Playing around with the arches ( ignore the yellowish paint i had to respray the whole car again, Dont ask!)




Old fibreglass parcel shelf template

Half of my carbon sheet i ordered

Bobs your uncle, cost me £70 for all the carbon yet just for a parcel shelf would cost me over £100 (oh and im not a utd fan, it was the cheapest huskey fridge i could find!)



Putting bits back together had to edit some of the pictures because the sun was too bright so some are a bit dull!
http://s767.photobuc...=IMG_0600-1.jpg



Boot re-done AGAIN!

Harness bar from Jon just needs spraying green

Thats it for now, going up there sunday and monday so will update then.Got a busy weekend fitting my gf's new 10'' cooper s rims and brake conversion that i won on ebay for 150! bargain!!!

Vaux stuff will come soon i promise!

Edited by BenH, 22 April 2011 - 03:42 PM.

[george91]

thats looking nice, i like the arches and parcel shelf, well all the carbon bits actuallly.

[Midas Mk1]

Looking Great! Love the carbon bumper + overriders!

[Tom.]

loving this

[BenH]

Thanks everyone, More carbon to come, just waiting on my roof and rear valance to be made



Vaux stuff will come soon i promise,just getting this shell and cage ready!

[Pitcrew6464]

nice one you carbon junkie

[BenH]

nice one you carbon junkie

It never used to bother me before i was a chrome junky! But now i just love the stuff! quite sad really!
Loads more carbon to come so keep popping back


righttt...

Fair bit done over the last 2 days. Didn't finish anything I'd planned on doing and spent ages tidying up the shed and tools! But overall came home very chuffed today with what i'd done. And its Payday tommorow which is even better!

First off, been over to tdk again to talk about a few plans and the misses needed to go over to pick up her mark 1 fibreglass boot and bonnet .Should be bringing his racer out soon so i can have a look at it for inspiration

But got my hands on this



Been told 2 weeks for the roof, dropping my mark 1 moustache off for him to make a mould and my headlamp rings to see if he can do them too, Not sure what im doing regarding a dash as i liked my old one.

Grinded the knuckles off my radius arms as there not needed and then wire wheeled them back to bare metal


Need rebuild kits for them but fitted them to the beam so i could sort brake lines out



Then bare-metalled my diagonal bar and acid etched it
same with the harness bar but forgot to photograph it once done doh!




Then fitted the diagonal bar,(needs painting but no paint until tomorrow !) Also fitted the hand-held extinguisher,More for show to be honest as the plumbed in one will be first port of call) Can see where the cage is welded in too which i forgot to take a photo of previously

Also fitted the harness bar but forgot to take photos, fit was perfect,no fettling

Then started on the bulkhead, Was going to just weld a flat sheet over the hole but thought id go for a miglia-ish style one as it gives more room for the air to get into my bike carbs and generally more space for anything! Took a bit of cardboard engineering but well worth scoffing down my coco pops so that i could use the box!









Not perfectly straight at the top but the scuttle will hide that

Had to repair my fibre-door ,turned out fine in the end.Cut more out on the inside as these were the heavy version so now there the light version but still with the reinforced hoop.



Ran out of wire so couldn't finish the last few inches of welding on the bulkhead so called it a day!

Thanks for looking, more next week

[leadly]

Top project so far!

Mind me asking how much your fuel tank was? what capacity it is etc?

Ill keep checking this topic as it's ace!

Good luck, from another carbon fan!

[BenH]

Top project so far!

Mind me asking how much your fuel tank was? what capacity it is etc?

Ill keep checking this topic as it's ace!

Good luck, from another carbon fan!

Thanks Leadly,
link for tank http://cgi.ebay.co.u...61#ht_500wt_715

people are saying not to use them as there service is crap but not sure if that was just for their pedal boxes.
to be honest it was £100 when i bought it so it may be better getting one from alloy racing fabrications. Saying that it turned up straight away and bar a smallish scratch i was happy with it.

Thanks

[remi]

Im a massive fan of carbon fiber, which then leads me to be a massive fan of this build, keep up the pic coming.... and im hoping i can get my welding skills up to par with yours so i can start on my mini soon

what do you prime your bare metal with? etch primer or zinc primer?

thanks

[maggies_minder]

wow dude this is coming along now.
some of your CV1 buddies came over to sutton last week to our club meet you guys have some seriously nice minis.

anymore carbon on yours and youll have diamonds come out the exhaust when you put your foot down.

[BenH]

Righteo....New camera so photos are a bit better

wanted some black bonnet pins so ordered the cheapest set off ebay and turned out there high tensile superlight ones! half the weight off my other ones, bit anal but every little helps.Also got my petrol cap, again plastic so nice and light.


picked up some braided fuel lines and finally got the pump wired and plumbed up.


Both filters plumbed in and all fuel lines done


bonnet pins fitted


Bonnet pins and led numberplate screws fitted


New Carbon valance fitted, the shadow off the bumper makes it hard to see the weave on it but it still has a nice shine on and way better than the black one

[BenH]

New rear loom made, all heat shrunk and insulated


front part of cage prepped ready to be welded in on Wednesday hopefully



Floor holes welded up, used a washer to blank the hole then welded it up


other rear cage leg welded in


other leg




Then while some seam sealer was drying i tidied up and rebuilt the old radius arms








More on Wednesday

[MINI-TURBO]

that looks awesome, i love the colour and all the carbon looks quality