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Glad to see it back on the road! Props to the guy who does your paint work as well, he does an awesome job -
Thanks guys! Its great to have it back again!
Another pic Ive found from Facebook. Proof there was snow on the run :lol:
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awesome build dude, love the attention to detail,
i cringed a bit looking at those crash photo's, cant imagine the feels when it would happen to me after so much work. Good to see you kept going, car looks phenomenal.Leave a comment:
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Well this thread is LONG overdue an update! Grab a cuppa, its going to be a long one....
At the last update the car was just awaiting paint. Then, Dingbro happened......
The car was painted just over 2 year ago in the original Cranberry Red (Code C.O.S.) so we thought there would be no issue at all getting a new batch made up, to the formula, to paint the repaired section. To ensure there wasn't a chance of a difference, the painter decided to blend in the rear quarter panel and into the front wing/scuttle panel. Got a great finish off the gun and rolled it out of the booth to see a night and day difference. The new batch was far too pink.
So without going into too much detail, we got various batches made up, none of which matched the 2yr old paint. Useless! So to make sure we got it right, we opted to respray the entire car again. Not what we had planned to do but the only way we could possibly go. So i took a couple evenings/days off work to get stuck in and flatted back the entire car ready for more paint.
With that, we got the car painted and lacquered back to a mirror shine. The whole car got flatted back and polished to get rid of any minor imperfections, as we had done before, which left us with this.
Fleep polishing the boot before I took it home.
and my personal favourite...
I then got some assistance from my dad in an evening, reassembling it all ready to come home again to be finished off. Got it home Wednesday afternoon. With the Run on Sunday and me working full time, it wasnt going to be easy!
Took a couple more evenings to get it back to its former self again with help from friends and family and it was ready to go on the first run of the year on Sunday just passed. It was a charity run in aid of the Brain Tumor Charity where we raised over £300. Great for the charity and a good day had by all.
Some pics from the run I have stolen from others on Facebook....
Great fun but I felt sorry for my fresh paint as it got absolutely covered in some lovely road salt.
Got it all washed off again tonight ready for its next outing. Salt got everywhere so the undercarriage got a good soaking too. Rust paranoia!
So Trig is back and better than ever. Bring on the 2014 show season!
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Day 3 in the big Kirkton house and Trigs almost ready for paaaaaaint. :lol:
Took the jacking point out of the sill. A big gaping hole in a panel prone to rust anyway is never a good idea and Minis should never be jacked on them.....thats what subframes are for.
Fleep went back last night to finish off the welding on the sill and then added a few dobs of filler to smooth everything over again.
Refitted the door to double check we didn't need to change anything.
Then smoothed out the a-panel with some stopper
I then flatted back the panels getting new paint. Scuttle/window surround, drivers wing/a-panel/side panel. Pretty much half the car....
Totally unrelated but heres how a Mini compares to an old 7 series. Very cool car in for a full respray
Needed to get the door painted separately from the car so smoothed off the skin with the body file to get rid of all the tiny lumps and bumps from fitting the skin. Its amazing the difference this makes.
Then with all the sill prep done we gave it a quick spray of etch primer to stop the bare bits rusting.
Paint ordered and should be applied tomorrow then flatted and polished on Friday ready to refit everything on saturday! Quick turnaround as expected!
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Glad to see the damage wasn't as bad as first thought. Be back on the road in no time.Leave a comment:
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First day down, a lot if progress!
First up, get the floor trued up to see what we were dealing with. Hadn't removed the door since the smash so wasn't sure just how had it was. The sill is pretty buckled but the floorpan was not too bad at all. The benefits of using 2mm steel for an inner sill rather than standard panels!
So out with the air chisel and bad bits gone.
Then with the selection of some precision implements...
....we got it pretty much bang on. Needs some minor panel beating but its straightish. Will line up better once the new doorstep is in place.
Tried on the new door. Not too bad a fit. Wasn't sure if it would need a new skin or not. Few spots of rust on the bottom edge so rather than leave it we reskinned it to be on the safe side. Glad we did as the mating face of the frame had a lot of surface rust and a few pin holes. All taken back with the grinder, holes welded up and then new skin on.
There really isn't much to a Minis door.....
Some of the rust that was between the skin and the frame. This was only going to show up down the line so better to be safe than sorry!
Bonded up and then folded the edge over on the new skin and back to trial and error fitting. Needs tweaking but we will get there.
In other news my new arches arrived. They wont be getting used as they are far too flexible and badly shaped. Glad I didn't pay too much for them! Tomorrow its truing up the door with the doorframe then prep the surrounding areas for the new panels. Hopefully have a welded up car again by tomorrow night. Then its back to panel prep before final paint.
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Glad to see this is getting fixed up. Saw it a Driftland during the summer and it was looking coolLeave a comment:
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