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[alex-95]

Any Guess's on the wheels

[minimaxie]

Compomotives?

[Anthony30]

Force Racing split rims?

[alex-95]

Compomotives?

 

Force Racing split rims?

Nope

 

Did a bit more painting tonight and also these arrived in the post not bad for £14 posted never used  .

 

[Anthony30]

Cooper reverse rims?

[alex-95]

What wheels are they?

 

 

Compomotives?

Good guess.

 

Cooper reverse rims?

 

4 X KN Turbos, If you go to page 21 you will see that I bought just one So you're thinking he has a set of 5 now. Nope sold that one a couple of months ago because I thought I'd never find a set  

[alex-95]

Got a few bit's done this weekend, had to take off the carb off of the ritz on friday as it was bogging down alot even after tuning it until it didn't which turned out to be the jet sticking.

 

I started building up the rear back plates during the week but couldn't finish them as I had to much paint in the cylinder hole . So removed the paint and repainted it. So I managed to build up one of them one evening.

 

Then I drilled holes for the P-clips to hold the fuel and brake lines and we bent the fuel and brake lines.

 

Trial fitted the rear subframe to check where the pipes can fit (hadn't fitted since welding the heel board )

 

Then made up the brake line for the front subframe and drilled holes for P-clips. Probably can't see the unions been polished

 

 

and the main brake line.

 

Didn't do much else, just removed the pipes and subframe ready for next weekend and gave the subframes a paint. 

 

 

[minimuk]

looks a cracking job, love the look of a nice belly...

[StefanPieter]

Nice going.

[alex-95]

looks a cracking job, love the look of a nice belly...

 

Nice going.

 

Cheers guys 

[alex-95]

Got a couple of bits done this weekend, sandblasted the radius arms and the tops which took a while and sprayed them with zinc paint. Finished the two brake backplates and cleaned the battery cable off.

And painted the top arms.

 

Thats about it, may have another update tomorrow or tuesday.

 

[JonnyAlpha]

Nice work Alex, your a few steps ahead of me

[alex-95]

Nice work Alex, your a few steps ahead of me

Cheers jonny, I've still got a bit of body work to do yet

 

Got the underside painted today I'll do a proper update tomorrow.

[JonnyAlpha]

Alex - I just posted my updated about 10 minutes before you, spooky you have exactly the Same Mask as I do, 3M Half Mask, with ABEK1 and PP3 Filters!!!

[alex-95]

Alex - I just posted my updated about 10 minutes before you, spooky you have exactly the Same Mask as I do, 3M Half Mask, with ABEK1 and PP3 Filters!!!

Haha, They are great masks, couldn't smell any of the paint.

 

Got another order  (maybe 2 ) from minispares come through a while ago mostly little bit's to build up the subframes which I forgot about. I got a new steering rack as my original one was a bit stack on the ball joints and the bearing had rusted making a ball jam. so masked it up srayed it with zinc paint and painted it black, still needs a couple of coats.

 

Painted the radius arms and removed the bearing and bushes. I also removed the top arm bearings, tried an internal bearing puller but broke on the first one so removed the bearings and welded a nut inside and pulled them out.

 

And cleaned out the grease, I started out with a screwdriver but ended up making this (bit of metal with a piece of rubber on the end) to drag it through and get into the hollow part as it was filled. There was 3 or 4 bit's like this pulled out.

 

I got another pair of hubs off of megamini_jb  . 

Cleaned them both and filed the round part a bit smaller to prevent the 7.5" brakes hitting it. Masked them up using the old seals for sandblasting.

 

zinc painted them and gave them one coat of black, will give them another couple of coats when the bearings and ball joints are fitted.

 

Then masked up the garage and the mini for spraying.

 

I should be able to get the fuel and brake lines and battery cable on this weekend and flip it over.

 

 

Also got some nice bits from DSN...