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[lucas1amps]

so after a boring night in on ebay and minisport ended up on a 290 quid shopping spree! bought all the bits to complete the front end ie wheel bearings, ball joints etc also bite the bullet and decided to go for the lowered set up. Because i want this to be a road legal car too i cant run the car so low il catch it on every bump or pot hole saying that often cars designed for track are horrible on the road anyway! so bought a full set of GAZ lowered shocks and the mounts to go with them. Did want Konis ideally but these come up at such a good price cant turn them down considering i couldent get two konis for the price i paid for all four of these.

[lucas1amps]

Bought a set of lightweight doors recently got paint at the end of the month February its all go be making a new subframe and bulk head modifications in the next 2 and a half weeks 

[lucas1amps]

Well ordered a full set of polycarbonate windows from Tony at ACW in Grey tint. Great price and exceptional quality compared to other company's i have seen in the past and 10% off for TMF users cant go wrong :) check it out 

 

http://www.acwmotors...plastics.co.uk/

[lucas1amps]

So shell is booked in for paint for sure end of the month doors are fitted got the front end kit from arc angles as money is very tight at the moment due to me losing my job so get that done need to buy a mega jolt ECU very soon as we are aiming to get the engine in and running by the end of march plans for the new subframe will commence next week or so got two holes to weld up in the rear parcel shelf and reshaping the bulkhead (Miglia style) and the shell is finished meaning the mk II subframe can be built. also been with the flap disc cleaning the floors up that sound deadening is horrible and weights a ton!

 

more pictures to follow soon 

 

 

cheers luke 

[lucas1amps]

Been getting some Insurance quotes today all of them under £800 what is a lot better than i thought it would be i was hearing horror story's of thousands or not being able to be insured at all so thats promising especially considering im 20 and i have heard quotes of 40 year olds having to pay 1500 on Redtop mins! also now doing some work experience/ Training with Ian Slark fingers crossed get a job at the end of it hate being unemployed! otherwise back to retail work no doubt to pay to finish this project plus get my mk1 metro back on the road too! but never the less i am determined really want to do the London to Brighton run in a mini again after i got 100 meters last year and the diff blew up.

Edited by lucas1amps, 17 February 2014 - 12:32 PM.

[josh.evans]

who was the quote with?

[lucas1amps]

who was the quote with?

Adrian Flux 

[lucas1amps]

Well today been interesting spent some time welding up holes and then getting a grinder and cutting some dirty great big ones !  

stupid 6x9 holes got  to go 

note the floor in the back ground no more sound deadening

 

measure twice 

cut dirty great hole 

Reinforce dirty great hole with box section to give the strength back from removing half the cross member 

Reinforcement 

Engine in place with Webers and manifold they dont protrude into the car as much as i thought they would get in

 

im running a floor mounted pedal box with master cylinders so dont have to worry about mounting a pedal box and a fibre glass dash need to get a digital speedo at some point car in for paint Monday 24th car is looking good for L2B 2014 hopefully see you there :) 

 

cheers luke 

Edited by lucas1amps, 20 February 2014 - 08:31 PM.

[l_jonez]

Jesus, might as well have gone VTEC etc with that much of the bulkhead cut out.

[lucas1amps]

VTEC is common wanted something different :) 

[lucas1amps]

Respray has been paid for got rad, seats and other bits and pieces sorted onward with the subframe 

[Rocket.]

looks good

[lucas1amps]

Well bulkhead is finished floor and underneath the car is stone chiped so today it went in the paint shop in a few weeks it will be painted up lovely front subframe will be finish and soon hopefully it will start looking like a lovely freshly built car well i would hope so for how much this project has cost overall i budgeted |£1500 to do this project its will be at least four times that! 

 

 

updates soon 

 

Luke 

[lucas1amps]

mini is now in the paint shop just sourcing parts got digital dash, mirrors etc need to buy a mega jolt ecu and trigger wheel next

[pickuptruck1994]

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