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[liam_italian]

Well she's been flatted again this morning and then given another coat of Flame red, starting to develop a nice deep shine. We're going to leave her now until tomorrow morning and then I'll flatten her again along with the roof and then spray her in clear coat.

[liam_italian]

All hail clearcoat the shiney one....





I'm very pleased with the results so far, still need to leave the paint to cure for a week before we denib, flat and polish her up. I cant imagine it looking much better if we had a booth!

Well the next plan is to do rub down the last door and bonnet ready for paint!

p.s. Bet you cant guess the name of my Beagle in the background of pic one!

Edited by liam_italian, 11 July 2011 - 09:58 PM.

[liam_italian]

Update

Im continuing to drive forward with getting the mini finished, doors, boot lid etc have now been prepared for paint and hopefully that will be starting tomorrow.

Ive also started to reassemble the car, so far it's been fairly straight foward, although the engine bay will no doubt be tricky, I mean so much stuff, so little room to put it back into!

Anyway here are some pics for anyone that might be following my thread.






Hope to have some more updates soom once the doors etc are finished.

[Daviewonder]

p.s. Bet you cant guess the name of my Beagle in the background of pic one!

Is it Eddie 'the beagle' Edwards?

[Jackmorton]

Just read through all this and firstly weldone for achually wanting to get it back on the road without reshelling it. You've done a amazing job. I big big congrats. I recently did similar damage to my mini. But not as bad just knocked my Offside wing back, Snapped the part off my front subby which holds the tie bar/ rod in place, bent my subframe and knocked the Offside part of the cabbin in slightly. Mines now fixed though


Weldone though. I'l be keeping a eye on this to see it finished. Goodluck with finishing )

[liam_italian]

p.s. Bet you cant guess the name of my Beagle in the background of pic one!

Is it Eddie 'the beagle' Edwards?

Not even close, it's actually "Cooper"

Well anyhow more progesss has been made with the mini, if you can call it that. Entire engine bay is in, had a few drama's with a dodgy new head gasket so ended up changing that. It's starting fine however it's missing on one cylinder, it turns out one of the spark plugs is not sparking, so im hedging my bets on a dodgy ht lead or spark plug. Also the spepper motor is fubar so im awaiting the arrival of a new one off ebay this week. Also discovered a massive leak from the timing cover, so I'll have to change the gasket (epic job).

Doors and rear arches have been painted, rear arches and interior is now in.

I'll take some pics this week and upload them.

[nev_payne]

Hey Liam - any advance on yours?

[Mini 360]

Blimey! Again, I remember this being in one piece not crashed! Gutted that happened mate but glad its on the return now! Loving the finish and hope my bodyshop can get the same standard using the booth/oven!

[Risky]

Amazing, it's great that you decided to repair it with that much damage, great job!

[nev_payne]

There's some slack on this here project page.

Any news chap?

[liam_italian]

Well it's been a while and the mini is still not finished, but it's very close now.

Well everything is now done except the bonnet and front arches need to be laquered and then polished. Got the old man to come and teach me how to bleed the brakes and im pleased to say they are very sensitive, im glad I decided to rebuild the calipers and replace the pistons now.

Might take it out of the workshop tomorrow to give it a little spin down the drive and back to clear some cobwebs.

[kalum]

Fantastic Rebuild! You should be very proud.

I'm so glad this car was saved and it looks a million dollars

Well Done!

[MR J]

Nice rebuild, keep up the good work. It took me six years to repair my Mini and it it wasn't as damaged as yours. You will be driving it soon.

P.S. One of the things i love about TMF is that no matter how long you've been a member there are some threads that you come across and think how have i not seen this before.

[nev_payne]

The forum demands piccies!!

[liam_italian]

Thanks guys, will try and get some piccies up today

One of the things I forgot is that the inner cv gaitors need to be replaced, they have only been fitted 6 months ago from new and have already split So I have bought some genuine items to replace them.