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[grahama]

Great update Darren, the bonnet gaps look spot on and as I have said before, love the hinges.

[Minidarren83]

The seats out of these look pretty awesome in minis as well

Yeah not bad but they are or will be for sale I'm refurbing my own set of mg metro ones

[Minidarren83]

Great update Darren, the bonnet gaps look spot on and as I have said before, love the hinges.

Cheers graham just hope they work out good, not heard from you in a while this winter has not been kind to you anything happened with yours?

[Miniowner123]

nice work on the front end i see the inner wing came in handy

[Minidarren83]

nice work on the front end i see the inner wing came in handy

Ha yes it did indeed

[grahama]

No Darren, but now the temps are starting to rise I can think about rubbing the new rust off and getting some paint on. Oh and build an extension !!!

[ba-tat]

Those a panels and bonnet gaps are just incredible, nice work. Good to see this project moving along!

[MrBounce]

Great work as always Darren

[Minidarren83]

UPDATE!!!


Today was another of one of those big moments in the project i got the other side hinge support bracket made up and welded on and also the wing support all captive nuted and welded back up just the same as the other side so didnt bother with any pictures of making it just finnished



and then got this done


clicky to play



it works perfect one finger operation so i am well chuffed with all the lights and gubbins in there it will need a little more help but goes up and holds itself in place. i had to weld little tabs to the wing so the support bars could then be welded to them






thats all for today it was probably 3 hours work and got the day off on wednesday so got a full day out there

as always comments welcome darren

Edited by Minidarren83, 10 April 2014 - 08:25 PM.

[Skortchio]

You da man, Darren!

Can't wait to see this in the flesh and check out the smooth action.

[Minidarren83]

Cheers mate it's turned well I think. Are you around Wednesday? The weather is looking good

[Skortchio]

"Turned out well" That's an understatement!

Yep, only time I'm tied up this week is Thursday lunch time for more hospital related excitement.

[iMurray]

Great work! That mg is nice too. Shame!

[Minidarren83]

Great work! That mg is nice too. Shame!

Yeah it is going to be a shame to pull it apart but for the mini it's worth it lol

[grahama]

Fantastic fabricating skills Darren, bonnet is awesome.