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[joezone2001]

My apologies about the crap quoting haha. Doing this on my phone as I am at work and its going crackers for some reason.

[stretch tech]

no worries mate...yeah lol, i didn't want the chav-tastic appearance but i wanted a good ICE system as I'm into drum and bass right know so that's why i want to hide all the speakers to maintain the stock look of the car...

£25 !!!!! that's a proper bargain mate ...what sort of condition is the rear subby in ? you should have took the back of the mini a made it into a trailer

Cheers

Rhys

[joezone2001]

no worries mate...yeah lol, i didn't want the chav-tastic appearance but i wanted a good ICE system as I'm into drum and bass right know so that's why i want to hide all the speakers to maintain the stock look of the car...

£25 !!!!! that's a proper bargain mate ...what sort of condition is the rear subby in ? you should have took the back of the mini a made it into a trailer

Cheers



Rhys

Hi Rhys
The back of the mini was a right old mess to be honest. Someone had already had the boot lid and the boot floor was like a sieve. The sunny is knackered down one side. It the radius arms look OK. I was also after the brackets that go on the end of the radius arms as mine were a bit of a state because the car has had the sills welded and the brackets were welded too for some reason.. (who knows.. haha) I am still, overall, impressed..!
Glad you're not going for the chav-tastic look.. it spoils a mini in my opinion.. someone had put racing pedals from Aldi on mine and it looked ridiculous.. lol needless to say I donated them to landfill.. I wanted to fit 13 inchers and big arches to mine but I'm torn... I think its best to stick with 12s.. my wheels are all knackered and they don't even match so I will have to get some new ones whatever I decide.. lol
Take care
Joe

[joezone2001]

no worries mate...yeah lol, i didn't want the chav-tastic appearance but i wanted a good ICE system as I'm into drum and bass right know so that's why i want to hide all the speakers to maintain the stock look of the car...

£25 !!!!! that's a proper bargain mate ...what sort of condition is the rear subby in ? you should have took the back of the mini a made it into a trailer

Cheers



Rhys

Hi Rhys
The back of the mini was a right old mess to be honest. Someone had already had the boot lid and the boot floor was like a sieve. The sunny is knackered down one side. It the radius arms look OK. I was also after the brackets that go on the end of the radius arms as mine were a bit of a state because the car has had the sills welded and the brackets were welded too for some reason.. (who knows.. haha) I am still, overall, impressed..!
Glad you're not going for the chav-tastic look.. it spoils a mini in my opinion.. someone had put racing pedals from Aldi on mine and it looked ridiculous.. lol needless to say I donated them to landfill.. I wanted to fit 13 inchers and big arches to mine but I'm torn... I think its best to stick with 12s.. my wheels are all knackered and they don't even match so I will have to get some new ones whatever I decide.. lol
Take care
Joe

[stretch tech]

just got a delivery from mini spares, special arch kit (4 factory fitted arches and 2 sill trims), fixing kit and 2 new rubber tear drop front sub frame mounts

change of plans, we can't work on cliff this week end so we are going to fit the scuttle and front end next week end...we will take the subby, mounts and bonnet to help get the alignment just right

Rhys

[joezone2001]

just got a delivery from mini spares, special arch kit (4 factory fitted arches and 2 sill trims), fixing kit and 2 new rubber tear drop front sub frame mounts

change of plans, we can't work on cliff this week end so we are going to fit the scuttle and front end next week end...we will take the subby, mounts and bonnet to help get the alignment just right

Rhys

Hi rhys.
I won't be working on cherry either this weekend. I am going to The Deep in Hull tomorrow and then going up to our holiday home near Filey for the the night.
I got some Wood and Picket arches from eBay just after I got the car. They're second hand but are in good condition. They'll get paineted to match the car. They were only £15 so they were a bargain. I just need the rubber finishers to go with them.
Cheers
Joe

[stretch tech]

i like the look of the wood and pickett arches but for £20 you can't go wrong with the special arch kit...did you get the sill trims too or do the wnp arches not have the sill trims ?

Cheers

Rhys

[joezone2001]

There were no trims with them. Unsure if ill use them. They were a bit if an impulse buy.. lol. For 15 quid they have still got to be worth it. Even if I end up whacking them back on eBay. Haha. Im a bit of a way off deciding though yet.. still don't have arches to put them on! Haha.
joe

[stretch tech]

just dug the front sub frame out of the garage as i will need it, the new mounts and the bonnet to get the alignment of the front panels spot on

Rhys

[stretch tech]

hi all, today we made quite a bit of progress

underside all painted in cherry red paint















i have decided to paint the engine bay and boot in this paint too so that will be done during the week

then we attached the scuttle, even though it is a heritage panel we still had to mess around to get it to fit spot on...which it does...





then we bolted on the subframe, the black paint and red poly bushes really stand out against the fresh cherry red paint











this enabled us to fit the front panel...



...N/S wing...



...and A panel



for pattern panels these fit really well and the gaps are good





during the week my dad will fit the other wing and A panel then next week end we will remove all the panels whilst they are still attached to each other and weld the seams. then we will fit the whole thing as a solid front end, this will allow us to properly seam weld all the joins and make it stronger.

before we left i primed the exposed metal on the scuttle



all these panels, other than the heritage scuttle, are from old skool minis...we can't recommend them enough, very friendly and helpful staff.

Cheers

Rhys

Edited by TH3aRchit3ct95, 24 March 2012 - 05:10 PM.

[jb93]

Top effort fella

[stretch tech]

Top effort fella

Cheers pal

Rhys

[stretch tech]

PS: we used the bonnet to check the alignment of the inner wings and bonnet gaps

Cheers

Rhys

[rosstolley]

Just pondered over your project here. Looking very good mate! Just wondered in your opinion how easy/hard it was getting th engine out on the subframe. Would you recommend?

It's very well illustrated by the way and good to follow. Keep it up!

Cheers,

Ross

[stretch tech]

Just pondered over your project here. Looking very good mate! Just wondered in your opinion how easy/hard it was getting th engine out on the subframe. Would you recommend?

It's very well illustrated by the way and good to follow. Keep it up!

Cheers,

Ross

cheers ross, it was fairly straight forward to take the engine out on the subby, we removed most of the ancillaries and things such as wires and pipes that might get caught, then drop the font end down and rest the gearbox and lower wish bones on bricks or wood, then undo the rest of the sub frame bolts and finally lift the front of the car up and off the engine/subby and drag the sub frame assembly out of the way

hope this helps

Rhys