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Posted 24 January 2014 - 08:26 PM
Just read from start to finish
Great job you doing, great skills & patience
Keep it up.
bloody brilliant build mate! love all the little reapirs! reminds me alot of my mini. me and my dad mad/reparied most parts!
keep up the good work!
Thanks guys 
, I haven't touched it in a while as I've been doing bits and bobs to the Ritz as I passed my driving test on the christmas eve. I really need to get cracking
On The Road
Posted 10 August 2014 - 11:04 AM
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Posted 10 August 2014 - 07:31 PM
Oooooowwwww men. Way to huge project. Great job.
Cheers.
Again I haven't done much to it unfortuantly. There have been a few things thats gotten in the way, mainly the Ritz having to take the engine out and replace the idler bearing and other maintenence suff, but hopefully I'll get cracking again on it. I have been buying some bits for it though which I'll try and get some pictures up soon. 
I am THE CLAMP MAKER
Posted 31 August 2014 - 08:11 PM
I did weld up the wing a while back which I forgot to update.
Heres some of the bit's I've got
A set of "Comfy" seats, not the nicest style but I'm going to try and get them recovered in black vinyl.
A set of 8.4" disc brakes
and to go with the disc brakes...
7.5" conversion
somewhere in this thread there are some red anodised solid subframe mounts, I didn't like the red so got them reanodised black.
New rearview mirror not bad for a quid.
and last of all riley elf door pockets which I got pretty cheap 
and a set of mudflaps which I have a plan to modify...
An yesterday we actually done some work 
We fitted together the scuttle, a-panel and wing.
the wing still needed a lip for joining to the scuttle so cut one out and bent it to shape. the top peice I welded in before was cut to short so we had to bend a little bit over to make it look right.
clamped the repair bit to the scuttle and welded it to the wing today, Nice gap between the 2 now 
Then drilled a few holes for plug welding and sprayed a few areas with no nonsense zinc spray and welded on the scuttle.
And thats about it for this weekend
Alex
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Posted 08 September 2014 - 08:24 PM
Saturday we trial fitted the door with the a-panel, the gaps not too bad, so we can get the wing and a-panel welded on soon. Then sunday I fitted the scuttle closure , but first I had to make a little plate to fit between the scuttle and flitch and welded it in.
Then I clamped up the scuttle closure marked it drilled holes and the proceded to weld it in. with 2 plug welds to go and a little stich weld the gas finally ran out after reading nothing for ages, we last filled it up december 2012, so it's either lasted a long time or we havn't done enough welding 
I should be able finish welding that next weekend as dad got gas today and the clean off the wing and get that ready for welding.
Alex
One Carb Or Two?
Posted 09 September 2014 - 03:11 PM
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Posted 09 September 2014 - 08:28 PM
Scuttle and wing gap looks pretty tasty now. I like the elf door pockets and love the rear view mirror, I think it'll look great with a clean up.
As for retrimming the seats, that can be really expensive. I'm sure there's aerosol paint you can use on fabric,cap you could black out the fabric? Just a thought, all looks really good. Reminds me I need to get off the forum and do some work to my neglected car.
Cheers, I've a a quick look at prices dor retrimming and they are mostly expensive, there is someone on the forum that does them at a reasonable price and you can also just buy the covers and fit them yourself so may do that.
Up Into Fourth
Posted 10 September 2014 - 07:57 AM
Fair play to you welding a new wing !! Coming along nicely !
Graham
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Posted 10 September 2014 - 07:58 PM
Fair play to you welding a new wing !! Coming along nicely !
Graham
Cheers Graham, would have been a lot easier to buy a new one but this one does the job now
One Carb Or Two?
Posted 30 September 2014 - 09:47 AM
It's coming along great now mate soon you will be spoilt for choice of minis!
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Posted 30 September 2014 - 07:52 PM
It's coming along great now mate soon you will be spoilt for choice of minis!
Cheers Ash.
The other week I finished welding the scuttle closure on and I started cleaning the inner wing, gave it a coat of kurust and sprayed in with some zinc spray.
A picture of a little project I started at college
And picked up a switch panel from castle combe at the weekend.
My Mummy Says It's OK
Posted 01 October 2014 - 11:58 AM
One Carb Or Two?
Posted 01 October 2014 - 06:55 PM
I can't wait to see that roof rack finished, it's great that you're able to use your college to make things like that. I also like how you use your roof as a white board, I do that too 
I am THE CLAMP MAKER
Posted 01 October 2014 - 07:06 PM
That roof rack looks awesome!!
I can't wait to see that roof rack finished, it's great that you're able to use your college to make things like that. I also like how you use your roof as a white board, I do that too
Cheers guys, It's not perfect, it's quite hard to get the bends exactly the same but it'll do for when I need it and is'nt that noticable. the other Problem I have is that it's too wide . so I need to cut it down a tad and reweld it. It's going to be fixed to the gutters aswell rather than the rubber feet, just need to make the clamps...
Haha, it comes in very useful, it's very hard to lose unlike a bit of paper
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Posted 19 October 2014 - 08:08 PM
over the past couple of weekends I've been cleaning off the rest of the inner wing, front and and the underside of the wing. and sprayed it with zinc paint. and I chopped up my roof rack .... to reweld, I put a center line on my roof and on the rack then worked out how much I needed to cut off each side.
Then we trial fitted the wing once again, but ran into a problem for clamping the curve of the wing to the scuttle so we drilled a 20mm hole into the scuttle closure for the clamp. We had to look inside to find the bit we cut out to which we found this little fellow living in there.
We got the bit of metal out and clamped it up.
Then this weekend I weled on a bit of a new lip on the top of the wing as it wasn't formed very well and drilled a few holes for plug welding, there's only 51 of them
Clamped the wing and a-panel back on.
Then got welding
Thats pretty much it, Next weekend we should be able to finish welding it on and bend the a-panel lip around the flitch panel and then start on the front bumper lip and the rear valence.
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