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#166 alex-95

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 12:30 PM

Cheer's, It's definitely getting there :teehee:

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Posted 19 July 2012 - 08:52 AM

Alex,

the lights are great and am looking at some myself. What are you going to use for the red lens and is it MOT ok ??

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Posted 19 July 2012 - 11:05 AM

Alex,

the lights are great and am looking at some myself. What are you going to use for the red lens and is it MOT ok ??

Graham


I'm going to either use the red spray or film, or use a red bulb. I would have thought it would be fine for a MOT.

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Posted 29 July 2012 - 07:47 PM

Havn't done much in the past week, Last saturday We ground down the bumper lip to trial fit the rear subframe.
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And today we tuned up Lulu85ritz's engine.

Yesterday We remade the closure panels from one main piece of metal, We bought a 3x2 piece of 1.2mm steel for £10 so worked out alot cheaper to make them instead of buying them.
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Then I welded on a lip to the curved piece, the small Gap and the cut along the top.
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I still need to weld the other one up, but that can wait for the week.

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Posted 29 July 2012 - 08:29 PM

Lovely fabrication on the closer Alex. Did you get the measurements all sorted and have you tried the rear subby in place??

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Posted 29 July 2012 - 09:02 PM

Thanks, I think We have It's just a matter of bolting the closure's in and trying the subby, Which I'll try do during the week or next weekend.

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Posted 29 July 2012 - 09:32 PM

nice job alex, great fabrication,will make some off us jelous 4 sure....... ;D

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Posted 02 August 2012 - 06:56 PM

nice job alex, great fabrication,will make some off us jelous 4 sure....... ;D

Cheer's minimuk,
I Did a tad more today, welding and grinding the other closure, and did some painting.
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Posted 02 August 2012 - 07:09 PM

Very nice bit of fabricating. Almost makes me wish I was back at that stage, well almost!!! Keep up the good work. It takes time

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Posted 02 August 2012 - 09:44 PM

Great work there Alex, want to make me some closing panels too haha! Mine had been filled with underseal and fibreglass :/ bad times. Keep up the good work, gonna look mint when it's finished

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Posted 02 August 2012 - 10:13 PM

Very nice bit of fabricating. Almost makes me wish I was back at that stage, well almost!!! Keep up the good work. It takes time

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Thanks, Hugh, It does certainly take time especially to get everything right.

Great work there Alex, want to make me some closing panels too haha! Mine had been filled with underseal and fibreglass :/ bad times. Keep up the good work, gonna look mint when it's finished

Cheer's, Mine too was filled with fibreglass (the guy who owned it before me did like his fibreglass >_< :lol: ), I do hope it does ;D

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Posted 18 August 2012 - 07:38 PM

Haven't really been doing much lately, I Drilled the subrame mounting hole on the closure's and have started drilling hole's for plug welding.

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I started cleaning the boot floor and battery box to fit the valance.
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I also pulled the battery cable through the hole as it had rusted and someone rivited a plate on.
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And then drilled out the spot welds of the battery box to rebuild it.
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Posted 18 August 2012 - 08:51 PM

looking good, sometimes it is good to stay away from mini's, but now you need to stay in that same gear and carry on, get the body work out of the way and primed before winter....

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Posted 18 August 2012 - 09:50 PM

looking good, sometimes it is good to stay away from mini's, but now you need to stay in that same gear and carry on, get the body work out of the way and primed before winter....

Cheer's minimuk, It does, Everything seem's to fight you which get's quite tedious. I should be able get on with alot more of the job's by myself now and then hopfully it will be primed by winter :gimme:

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Posted 19 August 2012 - 08:21 AM

Nice to see the work is still going on well! Great work!




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