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[Jayme 1275]

Postman dropped of presents 

 

 

Next plans is to save some money for the cage, I cant see there being much progress with this to the new year, want to wait to the its near time to send it away before chopping the shell up a bit. 

 

Cheers for looking

 

Jayme

[coopdog]

Looking good!

What other plans you for for it?

[Jayme 1275]

Looking good!

What other plans you for for it?

 

 

Cheers mate. 

 

well this is what my plans for the finished spec should be 

 

Engine and box 

 

• 1380 bottom end with med prepped crank and sc billet rods 
• sc conversion kit 
• Quaife lsd 
• straight cut drops 
• dta 
• itg foam filter 

 

Shell, interior and exterior

• Wishart motorsport bespoke cage to msa guidelines 
• Cobra seats I had made by cobra a while back with a a logo embroided 
• tubbed rear arches 
• some kind of lightweight dash and possibility of a digi dash 
• flocked dash door cards etc 
• fully stripped out 
• kad internal linkage 
• Full respray in Island blue 
• group 5 wide arches 
• carbon bumpers 
• mk1 grill 
• mk1 bootlid and plate mount 
• carbon miglia spec floor 
• 13" splits, mostlikely my current force setup, but ive a split rim obsession so you never know what i could end up running 
• full tucked bay, as minimal as possible 

 

Brakes/suspension 

•  
• Protech shortened shocks 
• minispares adjusters 
• some form of billet calipers and vented disc 
• wilwood pedal box 

Thats what I can think of atm, prob be loads of other bits im planning to use ive missed 

Edited by Jayme 1275, 21 November 2015 - 09:25 AM.

[coopdog]

Looking good!

What other plans you for for it?

 
 
Cheers mate. 
 
well this is what my plans for the finished spec should be 
 
Engine and box 
 

• 1380 bottom end with med prepped crank and sc billet rods 
• sc conversion kit 
• Quaife lsd 
• straight cut drops 
• dta 
• itg foam filter 

 
Shell, interior and exterior

•  
• Wishart motorsport bespoke cage to msa guidelines 
• Cora seats I had made by cobra a while back with a a logo embroided 
• tubbed rear arches 
• some kind of lightweight dash and possibility of a digi dash 
• flocked dash door cards etc 
• fully stripped out 
• kad internal linkage 
• Full respray in Island blue 
• group 5 wide arches 
• carbon bumpers 
• mk1 grill 
• mk1 bootlid and plate mount 
• carbon miglia spec floor 
• 13" splits, mostlikely my current force setup, but ive a split rim obsession so you never know what i could end up running 
• full tucked bay, as minimal as possible 

 
Brakes/suspension 

•  
• Protech shortened shocks 
• minispares adjusters 
• some form of billet calipers and vented disc 
• wilwood pedal box 

Thats what I can think of atm, prob be loads of other bits im planning to use ive missed 

Sounds like the whole car is gonna be a really good spec

You keep it red? With the cooper strips?

[Jayme 1275]

 

 

Looking good!

What other plans you for for it?

 
 
Cheers mate. 
 
well this is what my plans for the finished spec should be 
 
Engine and box 
 

• 1380 bottom end with med prepped crank and sc billet rods 
• sc conversion kit 
• Quaife lsd 
• straight cut drops 
• dta 
• itg foam filter 

 
Shell, interior and exterior

•  
• Wishart motorsport bespoke cage to msa guidelines 
• Cora seats I had made by cobra a while back with a a logo embroided 
• tubbed rear arches 
• some kind of lightweight dash and possibility of a digi dash 
• flocked dash door cards etc 
• fully stripped out 
• kad internal linkage 
• Full respray in Island blue 
• group 5 wide arches 
• carbon bumpers 
• mk1 grill 
• mk1 bootlid and plate mount 
• carbon miglia spec floor 
• 13" splits, mostlikely my current force setup, but ive a split rim obsession so you never know what i could end up running 
• full tucked bay, as minimal as possible 

 
Brakes/suspension 

•  
• Protech shortened shocks 
• minispares adjusters 
• some form of billet calipers and vented disc 
• wilwood pedal box 

Thats what I can think of atm, prob be loads of other bits im planning to use ive missed 

Sounds like the whole car is gonna be a really good spec

You keep it red? With the cooper strips?

 

 

No, complete change of look. going for a more retro style. Colour wise along the lines of island blue or mk1 golf blue. 

[gadget555]

Looking forward to seeing the through to the end looking good

[coopdog]

Yes!! That's going be mad

Every mini seams to be red and white hAha

[Jayme 1275]

Got out to the garage today for a wile to do some seam welding.

 

Tubes welded in to link turrets and cross member

 

 

 

 

started to get the hang of it near the end, the last picture was the last weld, im happy with it. All the welds have fully penetrated the metal though i may grind the first few down and re-weld it just so all are as uniform as the last. Just need to make some gussets for the sides of the frame and make some mounts for the radiator. 

 

Cheers

 

Jayme

[gadget555]

[Jayme 1275]

Got my top Engine steady plate cut, needs some tweaking. Not sure if il re-cut them or maybe just file them a bit.

 

Test fitted it today

 

 

I know its only an engine steady assembly, but imo it looks pretty trick. Just need to paint it and skin it in carbon and thats another small job finished. 

 

Jayme

[Mini 360]

Like where this is going.....very interested to see how the engine bay turns out as its something I am considering for mine.  Mini bays never look clean enough to my eyes.

[Jayme 1275]

Dropped the car of yesterday to get the cage, spent last week prepping it, removed the rear seat overhang and the door pockets, this has made the rear floor quite flimsy so ive opted to have some seat bars installed at the same time. 

 

Car was back on 4 wheels for the first time in 14 months 

 

 

 

 

Also bought a new dash 

 

 

nice and light, not sure on what dials etc I will be running, 1 thing for sure is it will be very simplistic and possibly a digi dash. 

 

car should be back end of the month so I can get stuck into straying the floor's and inside again. 

[LAYZeBOY14]

Dropped the car of yesterday to get the cage, spent last week prepping it, removed the rear seat overhang and the door pockets, this has made the rear floor quite flimsy so ive opted to have some seat bars installed at the same time. 

 

Car was back on 4 wheels for the first time in 14 months 

 

 

 

 

Also bought a new dash 

 

 

nice and light, not sure on what dials etc I will be running, 1 thing for sure is it will be very simplistic and possibly a digi dash. 

 

car should be back end of the month so I can get stuck into straying the floor's and inside again. 

 

Where did you get the dash from been looking for something very similar if you dont mind me asking :) 

[domdee]

What a cracker this thing will be. like the smoothed engine bay.

Edited by domdee, 08 February 2016 - 12:37 PM.

[Jayme 1275]

 

 

Where did you get the dash from been looking for something very similar if you dont mind me asking :) 

 

 

 

Came from mini sport.