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[Down&Out]

i have been on evil bay again

a very appropriate name

[Jack Jones]

what did you do with your twin exit tom???

[Dom]

Today turned out to be an eventful day. We worked for a few hours and then popped into Canterbury to pick up some supplies. Tom then misplaced his phone so we retraced our steps and luckily found it. After a couple hours of being stuck in city traffic, we got back cracked on.

Fitting the alternator



Carpet trimmage



Carpet fitted inside



Carpet applied to rear seat and parcel shelf



Subframe mount requiring one to be under the car with the door shut, holding the nut the other inside crouched tightening it.





Test fit of the carbon fibre dash



Wiring in the dash





The drivers side brake disc was also cleaned.

[Tomf]

Cheers again dom

Lol yea evil bay is a good name, i think someone very clever should hack ebay and change all the names to evil bay hahaha.

Sold the twin exit exhaust already

Yea as Dom said we went out to collect supplies from my garage, and different shops. and when i got out Doms mini at my garage, my phone must have fallen out, we the carried on to different places, and i realised i dint have my phone, so we re-traced our steps and when we get back to my garage nothing was there, so Dom rang it and one of the reighbours came running out and gave me the phone , its good to see some people are nice in the world, but as i was give the phone back, it was still fully functioning, but i soon realised Dom or someone else had run over the corner luckly only the rear was scrateched up and bent badly lol.

Carrying on from what happened today, i then went on a 2:30 round trip to collect my seats, which i must say i am very happy with an my god they are the comfyest seats i have ha in a mini and iv had atleast 10 different types of seats im my minis

i got the sub frames fitted to them and test fitted the drivers seat and they fit prety good

not much left to do now

Also i ont thing the pics of the interior do it justice, i think it looks alot nice in flesh, but iv got to get something to finish the top of the rear seat.

Edited by Tomf, 04 July 2008 - 09:00 PM.

[GW]

wow, this has come on so far from the starting point last year! The car has some great touches you should be proud!

I didnt realise you could space out weller 10's to cover the 8.4 disks....sounds like a plan for my next car is forming. The carbon looks great too.....serious props!

[Tomf]

wow, this has come on so far from the starting point last year! The car has some great touches you should be proud!

I didnt realise you could space out weller 10's to cover the 8.4 disks....sounds like a plan for my next car is forming. The carbon looks great too.....serious props!

Thanks for the knid words i cant wait to get driving it agian lol, its still got its MOT, so as soon as im done i can take it out.

Cant wait.

[Down&Out]

get pics up

[Tomf]

get pics up

Pics of what? lol

[Down&Out]

yer seats when theyre fitted

[Tomf]

Yea will do i did take a pic earlyer, but it was so dark inside, but you couldnt see a thing, not even the outline of the seats lol.

ill get some pics up tomorrow, well to be honest that will probs be Dom haha

The list of whats left to do:

Fit seats
Finish fitting dash and wire gauges
Make final exhaust bracket, fit exhaust
Fit door cards
Fit harnesses
Fit arches
Wire up solenoid.
Fit linkage seal
Then get the engine running.

hopefully tomorrow ill:

Wire up the starter solenoid
make exhaust bracket and fit,
Finish the dash off
Fit door cards
Fit seats
Fit harnesses.

[Tomf]

All thats left to do now is:

Fit the Acewell permanent live ,
Make final exhaust bracket, hook exhaust on brackets
Fit arches
Plug two wires on to the solenoid.
Fit gear linkage seal
Fitt bonnet pins to the bonnet
Get the engine running

Should easily be able to get that done in the next couple of days

ill wait for dom to upleoad some pics of what we got up to today.

Edited by Tomf, 05 July 2008 - 05:42 PM.

[Dom]

I was delayed again on my journey to Tom's house this morning as a lorry had spilt its expensive copper load causing massive delays around the area.



A few hours later than antiscipated I arrived at Tom's with his new seats.



One of which he'd fitted



He'd also finished off the wiring with just the solenoid remaining



We then got cracking with fitting the magnet for the acewell speedo.





Then brought the wire through the car to the dash







Wired up all but the live wires



Test fitting of the dash



Dash screwed in place and CB radio mounted



Fitted the harnesses to the drivers seat

[Dom]

Tom the test pilot



Bled the clutch



Fitted the passengers seat



Both seats finished and in place









Glued the rubber strip to the arch



Test fitting



A couple of closing pictures.... nearly finished!

[Gingerjoe]

looks absolutely mint mate! hopefully see it at the next bluewater run?! x

[Tomf]

Yea mate hopefully ill be there just got to hope i have built the engine properly now.

I hope so f-ing much the engine works.