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[domdee]

Your a sucker for punishment. Looks a gorgeous mini though!

[Artstu]

Glutton for punishment that's for sure. I've been trying to find the post/posts you did in this thread on some alloy wheels you refurbished for someone,  without success. Do you know which page it is on? Perhaps if you get the time you could do an index on the first post like on the Nissan builds?

[Petrol]

The Cooper Sport is a very long term project. It's in pretty good shape and unlike this project, comes with boot floor, rear arches and most of the inner sills! It's also very low mileage. The plan is to store it for some time but need to find somewhere. My garage is full of this project at the moment.

 

The wheel refurb is on the Nissan forum Artstu -

 

http://www.sxoc.com/...-refurb/page114

 

I will try to sort an index out for this thread

 

Pete

[Mini Waco]

WOW..  some of us are already envious enough, now you double it with another beautiful car!!  Fabulous Pete!!

[Petrol]

LOL Mini Waco. to be honest I would have preferred an old skool Cooper but my wallet isn't that big so this will have to do. It's just soooo tempting to raid a few parts off it but I won't do that as I want to keep it as original as possible. It's only done 13K miles. I can post some more pics up if it's of interest to anyone.

 

My main focus is on this build and there's a lot going on at the moment trying to sort the engine out - things get complicated and you have to sort out the BS from the reality

 

Only update is the clips for the front brake pipe

 

 

Some of them were too long so I bought some shorter ones. Again, stainless but these look OK

 

 

 

Pete

 

[Ben_O]

I would be interested to see more of the other one Pete, if you wouldn't mind?

[Petrol]

I would be interested to see more of the other one Pete, if you wouldn't mind?

 

No Problemo Ben.

 

Pete

[Badboytunes]

Pics please, perhaps a seperate thread? This one is awesome

[Petrol]

More pics of the Cooper Sport here.

 

http://www.theminifo...per-sport-pics/

 

Pete

 

[Petrol]

Back on topic

 

Front upper arms painted, new needle roller bearings and shafts

 

 

 

 

It's important the shafts are smooth in the bearings. Phil did these for me and they are spot on

 

Pete

[Spud21]

Just finished reading this from start to finish, i must say the level of work you have put into this is absolutley awesome, and given me plenty of ideas/inspiration for my first project cracking work .

[Petrol]

Thanks Spud21. Took the bulkhead sound proofing out of the sport. Took 2 hours to get it out without damaging it

 

 

It's too heavy for this build but used it as a template for a lightweight version made out of carpet underlay

 

 

 

Front subby hung for gloss

 

 

 

Painted black. Need to leave it a month or so before spraying Dynax inside the box sections

 

 

 

Pete

[Steve220]

Why a month, Pete? Is it to make sure full paint cure and no potential reaction?

[Petrol]

Why a month, Pete? Is it to make sure full paint cure and no potential reaction?

 

Dynax is white spirit based so I could spray it on 24 hours after and it wouldn't react. It takes quite a long time for 2K paint to fully harden despite the hardener. The paint isn't fully hard until all the solvents have evaporated and at 15C, takes some time. What it needs is a couple of days of hot sun - that would sort it! The aim it to get a tough coating to prevent chips and a coating of Dynax would prevent the solvents from evaporating leaving the paint soft.

 

HTH Steve,

 

Pete

[Petrol]

Bilt Hamber makes 3 types of wax protection-

 

Dynax S50 is a box section wax and has excellent penetration properties to get into the seams. When I built the shell, I only sprayed Electrox zinc primer into the box sections - I didn't use any coloured gloss. The reason for this is the Dynax will be attracted to the metals in the primer and offer much better protection. I posted pics of treating the shell earlier in the thread.

 

Dynax UB is similar to the S50 being very dark brown in coulour but doesn't penetrate as well. It's purpose is to protect the underbody hence the name. It offers a better mechanical protection than S50 and has UV stabilisers to prevent deterioration with sunlight. (You don't get sunlight inside of box sections)

 

Dynax UC is similar to the UB but offers an almost clear protective film. It goes on a lot thinner and is ideal when you want to protect body coloured parts.

 

To treat the rear subframe, I used a long lance with the S50 box section wax

 

 

This has a 360 degree nozzle on the end

 

 

It's just a case of spraying the stuff into the box sections like this. It's best to rotate the tube to ensure better coverage. It's also worth mentioning that I did this with the subframe upside down first, then the right way round.

 

 

Next I used the UB stuff with a shorter, straight nozzle

 

 

To spray in here where the water could lodge

 

 

There are lots of areas difficult to get to but this nozzle made it easy. Also sprayed the top side with a conventional spray nozzle, this would be very difficult when fitted

 

 

Then across the front where it goes up to the heel board

 

 

Fitted the brake hoses

 

 

Sprayed Dynax UC on heel board

 

 

Then the areas over the top of the subframe

 

 

 

Time to fit it. 5/16 Stainless bolts

 

 

Cap screws of course

 

 

Smiffys Stainless washers for the rear mount

 

 

 

Then this - Oh *******!

 

Can't find the washers for the front trunnions 

 

 

I also can't find a poly bush for the rear

 

 

I have 3 but need 4. How can you lose one 

Pete

Edited by Petrol, 27 February 2015 - 10:28 PM.