My Car - 18th Nov 2013
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Keep an eye on him. You'll turn your back for 5 minutes and it will be in pieces...

It's bad Alex. I can tell that from here.

In all seriousness. If all that shot on the note is the remains of the piston, the block may be salvageable. If not I'm sure you can get hold if another with so many of us keen to help out.

In the 13's at last!.. Just

Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM

I would say shit on the bore has been auto corrected.

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

I think that sounds about right! :)

Bloody predictive spelling.

Johns translation is correct. Shot on note = Shit on bore. Lol

In the 13's at last!.. Just

Nothing much to report really.

My new driver's door arrived from Andy, which you may have seen in his great thread explaining how to re-skin a door.

My polycarbonate windows arrived and I fitted the rear three. I'm waiting to fit the fronts as I still need to paint and fit the new door first.

I also tried to fit the new fibreglass frontend (from the Arc Angels), and failed so far. I didn't realise just how much cutting I'd have to do to get it on properly. It's a bit disapointing really, but I suppose it only means it's a job for another day when I have a bit more time to play with.

All in all not a great day - I keep finding more and more rough bits on the car - I already knew it could do with a paint-job, but there's more rust than I realised too. Mini!







I might do some more tomorrow, depending on time.

Edited by AlexB on 31st Aug, 2013.

i have a arc angels front on order hope it fits ok let us updated on the fitment, love the red with the gold wheels awell

Nice mk2 lights and reverse lamp alex.

BHP sells engines, but Torque wins races!

My arc angels fg clubby front was a right pita, the grille didn't fit in the hole. But apart from that it wasn't toooooo bad. The bonnet was top quality.

Ah yes, forgot about the MK2 lights - not wired up yet.

I would imagine most fg fronts will take a fair bit of work to mount up nicely

Edited by Rob Gavin on 1st Sep, 2013.

I was half tempted to by steel panels and make a removable steel front - wishing I had now!

Did that on my last mini. The fit was great but if you have polycarbonate windows no point in a steel front.

BHP sells engines, but Torque wins races!

Giving up on this frontend and will just re-paint my current one.

When I mount the front by the subframe bolts, the whole front sits too low, meaning the rear pivots up on the remains of the winner wings. If I clamp the side down to where it should be it flexes the frontend pretty harshly, and there's no way it'd stay on like it. I cut more and more away until I wasn't really happy about how much I had to remove, but it still doesn't sit properly. Also, my bonnet only *just* fits in the gap at the front, and rubs on the sides. It's almost like the frontend is the equavalent of a t-shirt a size too small.

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That's shocking. Send it back.

Where is it from?

I have started posting on Instagram also my name on there is turbomk1golf

Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.

Arc Angels.

Will contact them tomorrow.

Get them on there facebook

I have started posting on Instagram also my name on there is turbomk1golf

Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.

There customer service is shite I approached him at a show about the poor fit of my front end and bonnet and the fact it was about 1" longer then the front end, also didnt havr the correct bulge on the middle, he just shrugged and said, "well iv sold plenty without any complaints"...

looks like it'll fit okay with some triming, just hope i dont have many problems if its crap al get a curley one instead

Good luck getting them to do anything as others have said, utterly shit customer service.

I was going to order one of there boot lids. Hmmmmm not sure now,

I have started posting on Instagram also my name on there is turbomk1golf

Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.

The products aren't too bad considering some of the crap out there, but if something is wrong you're on your own.

think im going to stick with curley after i get this front end