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[Skortchio]

Think about how smug you'll feel every time you open your boot at a mini meet and people are amazed, it'll be worth it!

 

Of course they might not see it if you never finish the engine

[Minidarren83]

Think about how smug you'll feel every time you open your boot at a mini meet and people are amazed, it'll be worth it!
 
Of course they might not see it if you never finish the engine

I'll get there in the end mate lol

[grahama]

Darren,

 

there are a few things I wish I'd not done but when you go down the modification route there really isn't any road back apart from making it work.  Stick with it,  you will do a fab job in the end.

 

 

Graham

[Minidarren83]

Darren,
 
there are a few things I wish I'd not done but when you go down the modification route there really isn't any road back apart from making it work.  Stick with it,  you will do a fab job in the end.
 
 
Graham

Cheers graham I'm getting there albeit slower than I would like but it's still moving on

[Minidarren83]

Get the hinges finished off after snapping one and starting again but all done now



Ended up making them out of a single piece of round bar and as you can see sanded the boot mounting point flat for two reasons, to give it a flat mounting surface and also to pull the 2nd hinging point closer to the boot lid for the extra mm of clearance lol. Then I needed to sand the hinge mount part down to 3mm to fit in the mounts





Need to make the boot lid mounts a little neater then mount it to the lid I will be using but getting there

Cheers Darren

[Skortchio]

So... How many days have you spent on them so far? They are looking fancy though

[Minidarren83]

So... How many days have you spent on them so far? They are looking fancy though

A whole month wasted on them so far but it's getting there so I don't mind

[Minidarren83]

Well here it is the proof that my boot hinges work I've spent far too long on these now but almost done

Fully closed



First stage open



And fully open



This is my clearance on the rear panel



And a video of it working so far still I've since mounted a bar across the two hinges and just need to mount a gas strut

http://i1166.photobu...zps5aa4dff7.mp4

Another video tomorrow of it fully working

[Skortchio]

That's awesome, dude. And you did it so fast too...

[hoody99]

Looks awesome bud well worth all the time and effort wish my front end worked that smoothly lol

[Minidarren83]

[quote name="Skortchio" post="2928553" timestamp="1383777430"]

That's awesome, dude. And you did it so fast too... [/quote

Cheeky bugger lol

[Minidarren83]

Looks awesome bud well worth all the time and effort wish my front end worked that smoothly lol

Cheers mate almost there now

I'm not very good at keeping these video promises lol but I've been making brackets today

Picked these up last night



And started making the mounting brackets for them first with a captive nut I made two if these



Then welded a strip 1" between them



And then all done and cleaned off


And then mounted


Also made a smaller one for the other end



The end is in sight for this just need to weld the hinges on the the bootlid I will be using and sort a lock out

Cheers Darren

[F1L8EY]

love this nearly there with the boot lid!

Edited by F1L8EY, 07 November 2013 - 11:06 PM.

[Minidarren83]

love this nearly there with the boot lid!

Cheers man just can't wait to move on and get the engine conversion finished

[hoody99]

Don't want to be negative bud but will the hinges you have made be ok with the force onto rams? I know my BMW ones on my front end are half the size of yours and they take a bit of force to compress ?