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[Steve220]

Ben - amazing work (bet you're tired of reading that )

 

Quick question - the front arch stiffeners, are they made by you or bought?

[Ben_O]

Ben - amazing work (bet you're tired of reading that )

 

Quick question - the front arch stiffeners, are they made by you or bought?

Hi Steve.

Thanks for the compliments.

 

The arch stiffeners are made by Heritage and are the same ones used at the factory when the shells were prepped for sportspack.

 

Cheers

 

Ben

Edited by Ben_O, 24 February 2017 - 08:43 PM.

[Ben_O]

With all of the repairs complete,it was time to get the Mini into the booth for some primer.

 

 

And then after 3 good coats, it can sit and bake off

 

 

 

 

 

And then back out into the workshop.

 

 

 

Next up, I started prep on all of the parts that need to go gloss black.

 

I started off with the new front subframe

 

 

 

And then sorted through the removed parts for all of the brackets and other parts that needed doing.

 

 

Some are new but others were quite rusty.

 

I stripped off the parts from the brackets and was left with a pile of bits to prep

 

 

After de-rusting and prepping, i hung everything in the booth ready for a drop of primer

 

 

 

 

And then applied some nice gloss black to finish.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then whilst the paint was hardening, I turned my attention to the engine.

 

 

 

I steam cleaned it to get the years of grime and grease off of it and it came up pretty well

 

 

 

I just need a decision on a new colour for the engine and then ill get the ancillaries off of it and get some fresh paint applied.

 

That's all for today.

 

Cheers

 

Ben

[toplessmini]

How about something like this?

 

[Ben_O]

How about something like this?

 

 

Yep, I can do that.

 

Ben

[Ben_O]

Back to the prep work today.

 

I started off with a guide coat on the primer

 

 

And then flatted the primer 

 

 

The I masked up the seams ready for seam sealer

 

 

 

And then applied the seam sealer

 

 

 

 

Then seam sealed and brush sealed all up under the wheel arches and inside the front panel joins

 

 

 

And then put the car in the booth ready for its new coat of paint tomorrow

 

 

 

 

Cheers

 

Ben

[toplessmini]

I can't wait to see it all completed........  

[Ben_O]

Not too long now

[Ben_O]

So today was paint day.

 

I started off with a coat of paint on the top dash rail and windscreen boxing panels. This will enable me to mask the car conventionally when painting the front end

 

 

 

Then after that had hardened off, i gave the whole front a through degrease and masked it up

 

 

 

At this point, i wanted to fit the seam trims before top coating the nose as they are sealed to the body top and bottom so can't very well be done after painting.

Before fitting them, I decided to brush paint the seams with a couple of coats of top coat.

Once that had hardened, i fitted and sealed in the trims and was ready to go.

 

All done

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tomorrow, ill paint the sportspack arches and apply the black stonechip to the under arch areas and then it can be flatted, polished and reassembly can start.

 

Cheers

 

Ben

[toplessmini]

Now it's looking good, great work Ben  

[panky]

Looks lovely, but your bonnet strips are a bit wonky

[Ben_O]

Now it's looking good, great work Ben

Cheers.

 

I have the Yellow for the engine. I hope you like bright...

[Ben_O]

Looks lovely, but your bonnet strips are a bit wonky

Ill re position them tomorrow

[Daz1968]

Very nice, do you use solid or clear over base.

[Ben_O]

Very nice, do you use solid or clear over base.

Direct gloss on this one mate but COB on all my day to day modern car jobs.

 

The rest of this Mini is done in solid so i did the front end the same.

 

Cheers

 

Ben