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[mike.]

Thanks guys!

Yeah the emulsion on the headlining worked really well, i did the same with the sun visors, they were grey before.

Luke, the seats are the new shape cobra classics they're £80 each i think + £45 each for the subframes but with my TMF discount and because i was buying loads of stuff from minispares it came to just over £200.

The dials are from a later mini. Minis made after 1988 had the 3 clock, flat face dial assembly, so i sourced those and fitted a magnolia dial kit, also from minispares.

[millsminis]

Looks really nice mate....that emulsion finish looks great!!!!

[mike.]

ooooh and before anybody says anything - Roll cage padding is on the way for that top bar!

[womwom]

did the later style gauges fit straight in with no additional wiring??

Looks nice, im not jelous tho!!

[bloomers]

yea good touches

[mike.]

Yeah theres no additional wiring needed. They use the same loom, same speedo cable and the bracket bolts through the bulkhead in the same way.

The wiring for the rev counter is already in most minis wiring loom. Theres a little black and white cable going from the coil and appears somewhere in the dash, they'll a bullet connecter and a spade connecter somewhere.

So yeah they were a pretty straight foward upgrade. I also put 5w bulbs in them rather than the 2.2w original ones so now they're much brighter - its great at night!

[Shylos]

That's a really fantastic job - great work!

[blacktulip]

looking sharp in there!

[fatmini]

what did u do the roof lining i cant tell the differance between before and after ?

the rest looks good tho

[Gingerjoe]

Looks well smart mate! :]

[Tom07]

looks sweet

My interiors' in the same state as your's was in.........

i need to fix up.......

[mike.]

what did u do the roof lining i cant tell the differance between before and after ?

the rest looks good tho

Basically when i got the car my headlining just had some fur material glued to it, but in the few days of summer we had, the glue melted and all the fur fell off and hung down like a hammock. So i ripped it off and it revealed the original lining with a few milimetre thick layer of undryed glue. So when you were driving your hair got stuck to the roof and things and peoples clothes got covered in it trying to get in/out of the back, it was a nightmare.

So basically it was covered in glue which is why it looks so shiney, and the original paint started to pull off with the glue. It looked really bad like this:





So i tryed using all sorts to get it off but taffy from the forum adviced to use thinners (thanks taffy) So i used about 2 litres of thinners and a load of rags to scrub down the headlining and remove all the old glue and original paint. Then even after that it was sticky to touch, so i got a can of this 'stick stuff remover' for removing sticker residue and things from halfords and used that to remove the stickyness followed by a bucket of warm soapy water to clean any other contaminents off. After all that it looked like this:



And then i painted it using a roller and a brush with black emulsion to give it a brand new looked and it worked really really well:

[minili]

Ooh well done, that's some impressive DIY!

[Pie]

looks very nice. Where did you buy the speedwell gearnob out of intrest? and for how much moooney?

[mike.]

The gearknob was from minispares, it was about £18 so not cheap! But its beautifully shaped in brushed aluminium with the speedwell 'S' on the top, its a really nice little touch and its similar in size the the original, rather than some big, tacky looking plasticy ball gearknob.

Edit: Heres a link - Note that the colour around the 'S' logo is black and not BRG as it looks abit in the pic

Edited by minimadmike, 18 October 2007 - 10:53 PM.