brads 1963 mk1 850.
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In the 13's at last!.. Just

Needed somewhere to write all the stuff/jobs for the mini, but had no spare wall space. Except the garage door.

This is my new chalkboard!

Just a few days to harden and the chalk comes out



Took a few days of sanding and prep and two coats of a Dulux paint for chalkboards, but its done bar re-doing the white trim.
Im slowly reorganising the garage to suit me

Clever idea!!

cheers dave. Credit to my missus though, as i wanted to put a whiteboard in the panels but she mentioned the chalkboard paint. Two weeks later i have a working chalkboard garage door! used it today for the first time, works great.

also, the other 2 wheels have turned up

not sure on whats happening with the rear coilovers, but the money came out of my account today. I guess i'll hear/see something in the next week or so!

Rear coilovers turned up, surprisingly quick! Not bad considering its sent to the other side of the world

Not much, but i had a fiddle and cleaned one of the trailing arms up last night. I didnt pull it completely apart as i wont remember how to put it back together :s

During the week i found some motivation and did some cutting and grinding to make the 4 pieces of angle fit into the beam, ala



On thursday and friday i went to richards workshop and we measured 5000 times and then cut, checked, ground, re-checked, did some more grinding, tacked, checked again, filed and welded. And checked. We ended up with something that resembles a beam.

Not a bad place to work



I brought the old subframe up for extra measurement goodness



Then the work started. First we determined the trailing arm shaft position in relation to the body and the main two bolts holding the subframe to the body. Then relayed that to the outer angle pieces. We didnt need the full length and area so i trimmed them all up to neaten it





Once we positioned the camber slots, we traced and also got a rough shape of the trailing arm. Then i trimmed



Then came time to weld the plates on. Once on, we drilled and filed the slots out. Nothing like a good old hand file









Once they were done it was time to do the inner angles. The shaft holes were drilled 8mm closer to the beam to allow for our toe adjustment



Once again we made a radius of the trailing arm diametre and neaten the angle up



And the finished inner angle. Holes drilled (carefully after a pilot hole was off centre), trimmed and linished





Then it was time for it to roughly go together. The four mounting holes in the inner angle pieces had to be transferred to the beam. Due to access issues i started by hand drilling (rather than the drill press i used for everything else), but it all worked out well. The beam is now completely drilled



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While richard was welding i trimmed some 2x1 channel to use as the rear part of the new subframe. Richo welded my little pre-drilled angles on it later







So its almost done. The beam needs a few slight mods and its complete

so, I have updated the first post. All of my pictures were deleted so i had to re-host them elsewhere and reorganise.

Anyway, there's a LOT of pictures and words, but have a squizz (even a glance)