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[Auda]

Hi, new member with my first mini or... a few pieces of mini and a lot of rust.

 

It all started when a friend at work was talking about all the minis he had owned, all 12 of them...

He asked me if i wanted to come with him and help him pick up 2 clubmans a saloon and a convertible.

 

So i we picked upp the cars, the convertible was almost complete while the saloon was just the body and a few parts.

 

A week later he asked if i wanted to buy one of the cars since his girlfriend was very pissed off since he had bought to many cars. (His "budget" was 4 and he was up to 9 last year...)

 

Then i started thinking... Never a good thing...

 

The daily i have now is a 1999 seat arosa 1.0 and while it always works and has low fuel consumption, it is just boring.

 

So now i am the owner of a 1970 998cc Morris mini clubman

 

My friend did warn me that there was some rust on the car...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited by Auda, 29 March 2015 - 08:55 PM.

[Auda]

So the plans for the stage 1:

 

Engine: Nissan micra 1275 cc 16v

 

Transmission: micra 5 speed

 

Body: Hertitige body panels, saloon front end. extra wide group 2 mexico arches, mini mexico chin spoiler, streetfighter doors and possible carbon fiber roofpanel.

 

Front suspension: Protech coilovers, forge racing coilover top arms, adjustable bottom arms.

 

Rear suspension: Kad radius arms with 1/2" pins Sway bar, protech coilovers and jon bennet turrets with strut brace.

 

Subframe front: Possible Allspeed still looking for options here.

 

Subframe rear: Force racing rear beam.

 

Wheels: Summer. 7x13, have not decided yet. best would be if i can find wheels with tuv/abe.

              Winter 5x12 minilight with 145/70 tires.

 

Interior: Safety devices 6 point rollcage with the belt bar, 4point harness, sparco sprint bucket seats.

             Senter mounted speedo.

 

Steering: short rack (2.2) turns with Kad steering shorteners

 

Fuel tank: Alu tank mounted aganst the rear seat back.

 

Exhaust: Jenspeed micra exhaust manifold, 2 muffler stanless exhaust not shure which brand.

 

Brakes: 8.4" 1275 gt setup.

Edited by Auda, 29 March 2015 - 09:08 PM.

[Auda]

The mini was painted (badly) with a land rover brown color:

 

 

The first thing i did was to chop off the front end:

 

 

Random pictures of rust in the rear:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Auda]

More rust:

 

 

Tried to remove the floor to see the damage on the lower torpedo panel:

 

 

 

If you think that was bad...

 

 

 

Abot 8 mm of bondo:

 

 

Luckily the upper torpedo wall plate didnt look to bad

 

 

[Broomer]

Looks and sounds good,I will be keeping an eye on this thread.

[l_jonez]

Will be watching this, can't say I've seen a Micra engine in a clubman yet. The extra room will open up a lot of options to you.

[Auda]

See the all the small holes? thats right it was attached with nails...

 

 

Could bee worse:

 

 

The floor:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Never try to make the speaker holes while wearing a blindfold:

 

[Auda]

Tried to polish the roof a bit:

 

 

265 tires is the perfect width for the mini...

 

 

There was some surface rust on the torpedo wall so i removed all the paint to check the condition:

 

 

 

Looked pretty good, The it was time for rust primer:

 

 

 

Painted it black to cover the primer:

 

 

Some pitting, but not too bad:

 

[Auda]

Decided that the best way was just to cut off the damaged panels and replace everything.

So i started with some bracing:

 

 

I have no idea where all the rust is coming from, the canals was complitly filled:

 

 

Started cutting the floor:

 

 

 

Almost there:

 

 

 

Victory:

 

 

Floorless finish:

 

 

 

Parcel shelf on the way out:

 

[Auda]

More bracing:

 

 

Seat back gone:

 

 

Found rust bubbles on the whole rear part under the window so...

 

 

Really easy to reach the inner fenders now:

 

 

More repairs...

 

 

 

Wanted to try to tub the rear arches, when i cut open the fenders there was a white cloud of old bondo:

 

 

Gave up on the tubbing way to much rust everywhere:

 

[Auda]

The micra 1.3 is really rare in norway, luckily i found a cheap car. It did not start, turned out to be a bad dizzy.

 

1994 so no immobilser and i had only done 122000 km.

 

The car:

 

 

 

The japanese really know how to make a boring interior:

 

 

Meet your new home:

 

 

Looks pretty good:

 

 

The fun bit, finding all the wires that make the engine run:

 

 

 

 

Turns out the car had been automatic originally.

Edited by Auda, 29 March 2015 - 08:31 PM.

[Auda]

Started to remove the engine:

 

 

 

 

Almost there:

 

 

And it out:

 

 

 

 

Looks like i have to change some gaskets:

 

 

[mk1leg]

hi..you have your hands full with this amazing transformation.....good luck

[Auda]

Did some more cutting today:

 

 

 

Juat a list of the panels i can still use on the car:

 

Upper panel of torpedo wall

Bulkhead crossmember

A post from the window edge and upp

B post floor and upp

C post  window upp

Rear hatch

Dash rail upper panel

 

Thats it...

[Auda]

Now the project is going on hold for a while.

 

In Norway we have very strict rules about customisation on cars so i have applied the road department for permission.

 

Applied 7 sweeks ago after 3 months i am allowed to check on progress...