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[Italianjoblofty]

Hey guys,

Been meaning to start up a thread for the my very first mini rebuild for ages now just never seem to find the time, so im going to give it a go now!

I've always loved following the wrc and also following the local rallies and my gold has always been to give it a bash some day. About 6 years ago i took my italianjob off the road for some much needed maintinence and that was pretty much the end of him and he neve did make it back onto the road. Luckily i never gave up on him and in feb 2010 i finally got my act together and raised a little funding and decided it was time to spring some life back into my poor old rotting mini. So the bigger picture for my italianjob was to stage rally it on tarmac. First things first i totally stripped it down and placed it on a spit to start repairing the pannels that required replaicing.

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[Italianjoblofty]

Ok so the next stage was to cut out the rust and weld in some new pannels.

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[Italianjoblofty]

I then welded in a new floor pan and inner wing on the driver side, Only got a pic of it clamped up unfortunatly seem to have lost the welded up photos Will post them if i find them

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[twrminisport]

So where are we now with progress

[BusheyTrader]

Hi,

What class / specification are you looking to compete in?

Adam

[minisi35]

Keep up the good work

[Italianjoblofty]

Hey guys sry i havent updated anything since the 22nd My pc died on me half way through the proccess lol Its still down so i cant uptate anymore pics etc untill its up and running again. Sorry for the delay. I have lots more photos etc of the rebuild so will update when i can

[Italianjoblofty]

Hi,

What class / specification are you looking to compete in?

Adam

Hi Adam i will be competing in the 1400 class. Bought myself a nice 1380!

[minisi35]

Ive decided to prep mine ready for 'staging' too....

[Italianjoblofty]

Hey guys pc is back and all is fixed, only problem is my hardrive packed in so i have lost a few pics which i am gutted about! But i do still have most of the pics so i'll carry on updating.

Ok i dont have any pics of the inner wing welded on now as thats 1 that has gone so i'll have to start from the door step now .

First things frist i cut out the old 1

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[Italianjoblofty]

I then tacked the new panel on


Dont have any photos if it ground back though unfortunatly

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[Italianjoblofty]

Then decided to move onto the passenger side so started cutting out the floor and tacking a new panel in

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[andy pandy]

i think you may need to seam weld youre floors, for it to pass an mot, lookin good tho

[Italianjoblofty]

Once the floors had been tacked and seam welded i made some little strengthening plate in work

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[Italianjoblofty]

i think you may need to seam weld youre floors, for it to pass an mot, lookin good tho

Yer i have pretty much seam welded all the panels i have replaced....i did have photos of everything but i've lost them all so i can only show the ones i have lol sry