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[Jackman]

Me too, cant wait to see the colour of it.

[minipixie]

It's a yummy colour!!! but iv only seen it in the engine bay! but still looked really good

[Madmax]

your doing almost exactly what ive done bar the painting, it took me 4 months! lol, fitting a wiring loom is the easy bit, getting everything to work properly is an absolute a.se...

the badges are on the way mate

[Purple Tom]

i'm pretty confident that things wiring wise are going to be ok, its the loom I took out thats going back in. Providing I get the earths good I don't see any reason that it won't work! fingers crossed.....

Ok, I can't keep it quiet any longer, here's the final colour

not the best pic in the world, but it gives you an idea!!

[mini_sam]

Mmmm Lush! the big purple one!


well done.

[CharlieBrown]

Yikes, that is purple!!! It looks brilliant!

I cant wait to see it finished!!!!

[BlAck0ut]

Ribeana!

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[Purple Tom]

teehee, yeah it is a bit Ribena-ish! :grin:

Tonight (thanks to JG and Mattvallins) i'm going to get the wiring loom finished and my new dash of colour dashboard fitted. Then I'll fit the steering column, test the electrics, make sure everything is working properly!

Then tomorrow we're going to finish bleeding the brakes and hopefully get the fuel tank and pipes fitted. Then, I pick the engine up on saturday, and I'll get that in and hopefully ready to run on sunday/monday!

Got to fit the roll cage too, make sure thats nice and snug, but its at least in place in the car now, and won't be coming out again.

[Dom]

cool, nice one tom

[Pickup76]

err purple!? You are mad, your never gona get away with behaving badly on the road now, nobodys gona miss you!

[Purple Tom]

good point pickup76, never mind though!

Tonight I got nearly everything sorted. I've sorted out the behind-dash wiring, got that all up to scratch. Then put the new dash in, complete with auxillary guauges and 1275GT three clock cluster.

Oh, before that I had to refit the top and bottom dash rails too.

Then I fitted the steering column, and the heater, and all the associated hoses and pipes and bits and bobs.





And that was it! But its took me a good 6 hours, I went out to the garage at 6, and came in about 10 mins ago. I'm knackered.

Spoke to Simon at Morspeed today, and the engine is delayed until monday, which is a bit of a bugger, but never mind, these things happen.

But so far so good. I still need to bolt the cage in (which can be done now because the dash is in), re-fit all of the interior components, do the fuel tank and pipes, fit harness brace bars to the back seat, put the engine in, put the windows and seals in., spray the doors bonnet and bootlid, and spray the roof. Oh, and then test the electrics - that bit is going to be scary!

[mini_sam]

what seats are you going to be putting in?

[Purple Tom]

its going to have Cobra Clubman buckets, in black, with 'cobra' in red. Quite subtle really.

Tonight we're going to get the brakes bled, fit the lights and test the electrics, and hopefully fit the fuel tank and pipes!

[Dom]

its all coming together quickly!

[BlAck0ut]

I think there was a hint of the finished colour in your sig Minis84, going from left to right it changes from redish to purplesish