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[mini danny]

Its looking really good, lots of rot removed and then you find the door! Good luck and keep up the good work!

Thanks buddy :)

Looks good everyone loves a van
Thinking of using a spot welder on my own project have you had to use different tips for the hard to reach spots? Their costly and I was wondering which ones I'd need...also they all seem to be 240v dies that mean using one of those yellow transformer things?

Thanks man :) and if I can't get in with the spot welder I just plug weld them... Also my spot welder works straight off the normal 13amp plug

Also got my inner a panel on yesterday after a lot of panicking as I test fitted it all and had massive panel gaps turned out to be an easy sort after a lot of head scratching..


Ending up with a gap like this !!



All sorted and now to crack on welded the rest together :)



Didn't take to many pics as phone was dying will try get some more done later if feeling better


Dan

[mini danny]

I've not got much done lately lost motivation

But did strip the door hinges of all paint and they where badly pitted so linished then and primered them and very happy with how they came out. Also test fitted the drivers door I need to get the porta power back and just needs a tiny little more... But on a very good note. I've been so worried about coming to repairing this door aperture on the drivers side as its badly bent..... Now I got very lucky and have sourced the complete section I need.

Door hinge Pitting



Linished and primered



The section I have found came from a van to



So glad I'm not going to have to try and repair this as this would have taken me countless hours.



First time since I've owned this van she has a drivers door fitted :)





Checky pic of my red mini and van



And a picture of my 2 daily drivers 20VT MK2 and my 1330 mini




Thanks Danny

[Ben_O]

I lost motivation on mine for weeks but finally the last few days, i have the Mini Mojo back and made some good progress.

 

Sometimes, it's good to take a step back and have a break from it. That roof section was a great find and will save you days of work.

 

Ben

[mini danny]

Ya think that's what I'm going to do. Just chill out for a few days and hopefully get back on the job.

The piece I got for sorting the door aperture out I will not be getting until MITP as the section is located in Belgium and wil cost a fortune to get it posted and he's coming over for MITP and had kindly said he will bring it with him.... So looks like my dead line to have her done for MITP has gone out the window


Thanks Dan

[mini danny]

Hiya guys sorry I've not done a lot on the van just haven't had the energy to do it.

 

as you can see from the pictures my unit was once again in a complete mess, so decided to clean it properly.

 

most cleaned up and loads more space as my clubman estate and a lot of stuff has been moved somewhere else.......... ohh ya and found a can of white paint so thought ild spray some of my van for inspiration.

 

 

 

also test fitted some wheels to see what they would look like. I will be going with either the extractions or reverse rims

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

also gave the engine block a quick clean...........

 

as you can see if dirty as can be and black!!!

 

 

 

 

then cleaned......

 

its YELLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and nearly looks brand new !!! cant believe how clean it came up.

 

 

[Van13]

Love this project been following in the shadows
Great work,what you got planned for the engine

[mini danny]

Love this project been following in the shadows
Great work,what you got planned for the engine

Thanks buddy :) engine wise it going to be a fairly standard engine, will need a rebore so +20 if I can get away with it, thinking maybe a 266 cam but unsure yet. Everything else stock unless I can get a 12g295 head for sensible money.




Dan

[minimanclive]

What did you use to clean the engine? That's quite an improvement!

[mini danny]

What did you use to clean the engine? That's quite an improvement!

Was in the parts wash at work. It's called safety clean. I couldn't believe how well it came up. Was like its brand new !


Dan

[SAL 821X]

The dish washer also works remarkably well;)

[minimissions]

Yeh can second the dishwasher lol looking good Dan it's all coming together :)

[mini danny]

thanks guys... got a bit more done at the weekend got the cross member welded in, along with the seat belt anchor points. I always when fitting the crossmember forget about the recesses in the floor and end up putting a whole over it lol will plug them up at the weekend..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and got bored so just started taking random pics whilst having a cuppa tea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

should have loads more progress this weekend hopefully :)

 

 

Thanks Dan

[minimissions]

Top work dude...

[mini danny]

Top work dude...

Thanks man hopefully get some more done tomorrow :)

Dan

[minimissions]

Anymore updates dan? :)