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[STREET TWEAKS]

no mate tom asked me to leave the lines in , as it looks now

[ToM 2012]

looking good there Wayne, I can see you have your hands full on Tom's car, hope you can move into your new patch soon.
one observation,.....the lip between the front panel arch and wing lip arch, where they join toghether, I would weld that shut, for 2 reasons; 1 prevents the front panel from loosening( cracks in paint) 2 rust prevention in the long term. I would do the same where the arch lip meets the A-panel lip..... both sides of the car of course

would you still see the lines them mate?

lines between the panels? All I am saying that wont alter nout, just you need to strenghten bot panels at the lip and join the lip toghether, that area is a lotta pull on it like a guitar string, if vibrates when driving it might come loose....

ahh right see what wayne thinks you two no more than me lol

that part has been spot welded there before then cut back to put the line in then filled over , tom asked me to cut line back in so i cut it back down the weld and there no sign of rust , but iam going to seal it over aswell before spraying . so most of that work has been done for me

ino mate you have had the hard work done for ya already

[STREET TWEAKS]

well mate your minis down the new unit waiting for opening day on monday

[minimuk]

well mate your minis down the new unit waiting for opening day on monday

looking great, good luck from Monday on....

[STREET TWEAKS]

thanks mate

[ToM 2012]

ok mate looks like a nice decent size unit. did you move the mini ok? thanks tom

[STREET TWEAKS]

ok mate looks like a nice decent size unit. did you move the mini ok? thanks tom

yes mate all good thanks

[STREET TWEAKS]

rigth what a pain in the bum day , when doing badley filled qurters like this one TOP TIP pull the number plates off the wife's car and use this to help put the filler in ,in one go works great lol ( but the wife's p**sed off ) so tom you o me 10 quid and a new ear .

will put up finnised pics of this bit at the end of the week, then fitted the new door hinges but the door was still not fitting right at the top frame the gap when't from nill to 15mm but after ALOT of thinking i got a big pace of wood and fit it hard were there was no gap with the door open and slowly the gap opened up , so now the gap is the same all the way across about 7mm so the door now looks right in its hole ( happy days ) so will put pics of than up 2moza . plus i did little bits of filler work here and there around the car .

[minimuk]

OMG, wife's number plate, large piece of wood,....it will be alright at the end ......

[STREET TWEAKS]

OMG, wife's number plate, large piece of wood,....it will be alright at the end ......

mate this car is a cow

[minimuk]

OMG, wife's number plate, large piece of wood,....it will be alright at the end ......

mate this car is a cow

can see it's not a Friesian, but it will look great in the end,...a lot of fillering....plenty of Upol's finest

[STREET TWEAKS]

oh yes

[tractor]

Tom i've just read your thread from the start, it's coming together well - the underneath looks brilliant.

Wayne you've done a good job with those door gaps it's not easy to get good results.

When do you think you'll start laying down some colour?

[ToM 2012]

Tom i've just read your thread from the start, it's coming together well - the underneath looks brilliant.

Wayne you've done a good job with those door gaps it's not easy to get good results.

When do you think you'll start laying down some colour?

hi thank you for your comment and wayne is doing a cracking job i can see there is alot of dents and work and he is trying to fit it in around hes other jobs. can not wait for the next update tho thanks tom

[tractor]

Yeah I see, it was explained to me that spraying is 95% prep and only 5% spraying or something like that anyway but a little patience and time spent now will give good results that will last the life of the car (hopefully anyway)

I just wanted to pick your brains tom? earlier this year i can see you fitted your brake lines, I’m just at this stage now, I’ve done a little bit of reading and all I’ve understood (and I’m proberly still got it wrong) is that there’s two types of systems, i think they're called single and double systems, do you know what the difference is? What does the double and single refer to.

What system did you fit? I want to fit disc brakes on the front and a servo master cylinder set up, do you know what system I’ll need?

I guess minispares will have the bits i need but when I don't know what I need it makes it a little difficult and when i don't what even called what I’m searching for it gets quite difficult.
I’ve proberly got this completely wrong but is there any chance you can point me in the right direction?

Sorry for all the questions and the blatant stupidity on my part but I’m learning all the time.....

cheers
trac