118 replies to this topic

[maurais]

mental build, im impressed given me some major enthusiasm to do something challenging, good luck with the rest of the build cant wait to see it once its all nice n shiny

[kcchan]

The light bar I bought second hand and unfortunately dont know much about. It looks like any old light bar I would imagine just a few different Spots/Fogs and maybe a few more holes?

Andy, sure you can look after my wheels, its the tyres Im worried about

Pah, when its all nice and shiney? That could take a while.

Thanks people for the nice comments, but if you looked at it close up you'd soon realise what an actual shed it is. I would love to redo alot of it. Maybe Im just a perfectionist?

[sweetser]

Looks nice mate id leave it like that for true sleeper style

[998 Cooper]

Just been reading this thread from the start, thanks for sharing I can see you have been having fun and learning a lot along the way and ur cat really loves it too.
Its not easy working outside but its given me motivation to start rebuilding my old cooper when it gets a bit warmer otherwise it could turn into a chicken coop.

[Ryaan]

Hi I'm new, this is one of the first threads I've saw so far and its amazing

Make it a road leagal sleeper just so you can beat some chavs in their red-top cosa xD

[leaky]

Hey mate just went through this whole thread. Im planning on doing a swift conversion on mine in a few years so have been looking at this for ideas and to see what's involved. Keep up the good work.

[carcraft]

GREAT PROJECT!!! on a tight budget (don't you just hate students, loads of free time, youthful, always drinking, having lots of casual sex and annoyingly talented).
Any chance of some updates? and a picture or two of your dash. I am really looking forward to seeing how the KA dash looks,
well done fella!!!!

[GreaseMonkey]

I would love to run the mini around looking like that, people would think your a slow old banger

[kcchan]

Erm i didnt fit the KA dash in the end as it was too much work and I just needed the mini finished. I will probably end up getting a fibreglass one as my digidash is currently mounted on two metal strips welded between the dash rails.

No more pictures unfortunately. Ive posted all the ones I have and the mini is at home 150 miles away

[Atchi]

Hi,

So it looks like you have finished before me......
You said your car is bad but mine is 10 footer, also.
It looks OK from about 10ft away and come closer......It's a dog!

Have you driven mini since you got a MOT?

I know what mini would be like since I had a mk1 Swift Gti.
It will be very quick and little mod will give you better performance.

I hope you can go home and do some work on it soon!

Cheers
Atchi

[kcchan]

Haha thanks Atchi. Havent had a chance to drive it yet and although it has an MOT Im slowly redoing ALOT of it because Im not happy with it.

So that said:
Subframe Mk2 is started (barely)
An actual dash is being put in instead of this:





The fit isnt great so Ill be spending alot of time getting it perfect.

Also bought a spare engine and started stripping it but also half rebuilt it to use to mock up subframe mk2 and I made a new exhaust manifold.


Also sourced a non gti gearbox that I can use to bolt onto my spare engine but more importantly has a lower final drive I can fit into the gti box to suit the 10s im running.

So thats what I spent most of my easter doing.

[sweetser]

Looking good mate cant wait to see more progress

want to sell me it haha

[cosi]

An actual dash is being put in instead of this:

Can I ask what dash that it. I have been looking for a fibreglass dash like that but obviously not looking hard enough.

Edited by cosi, 01 June 2010 - 04:49 PM.

[Tom Booth]

The light bar I bought second hand and unfortunately dont know much about. It looks like any old light bar I would imagine just a few different Spots/Fogs and maybe a few more holes?

Minisport Monte carlo light bar with a hole drilled in the fron't mount

Hope you appreciate that middle lamp, King. Took me a *melonsing* age to drill that bar!