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Looking at those early photos shows just how far this has come.

Cheers for the comments. Not had much to update really due to work and holidays but getting back to it again now. I had a load of parts acid dipped at the start of the month. Very happy with how it all came back, the bonnet and bootlid dont need any repairs, the doors are still on their original skins and only the driver's side needs a couple of small patches so chuffed with them.

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I spent today playing with the drivers door and it fits quite nice now, had to add some weld then file it back where there latch comes through the door as i think the latch is worn and sloppy meaning the door would pop out slightly when shut

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The gaps need sorting now which is the next job but the door tucks in nice on the bottom corner.





Cheers

Edited by Callum on 11th Aug, 2017.

Amazing how the doors etc have survived in such great nic!

Yeah I'm very happy with the doors dave, they weren't cheap bit well worth it I think

The drivers side door gaps are nearly done, just got to do both bottom corners which i will have to leave for now as the doors have got to go back to be dipped again as i found a small lump of rust in the rear bottom corner

I tackled the upper frame first, the gap at the top was way too big so only fix was to cut the frame and let a peice in

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Cut and the gap corrected



Welded



The door apature needs now filler now as it lifts up towards the rear of the door.

The rear of the door needed a bit of work

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The front required the most, was too tight at the top, too big in the middle and then going tight again towards the bottom

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How it looks together



Will turn it round and start the passenger side now. Cheers

Edited by Callum on 11th Aug, 2017.

Will the glass still fit?

I run a supercharger and I don't care the TB is on the wrong side.
VEMS + 12 PSI + Liquid Intercooler = Small Bore FUN!

Absolutely blown away with how your going to the extreme levels of finish yet not going to show it in any of competitions.. im calling first dibs if you ever sell cos i love how much details gone into this.. keep up good work

I hope so graham, seen others do the same and not have issues and as far as I can remember when I stripped the original doors there is quite a lot of play with the glass in the rubber.

Haha cheers dave, i can't see me selling this one though!

Do you have a link to any other builds youve done?

Who did your dipping?

No this is the first one I have built mate

It's in Preston, called ribble technology. The prices are very good compared with the others, think it was 190 to have all my parts dipped and the doors powder primed afterwards

Bum hoping it would be local. I agree tho, total bargin!

Amazing... you must of picked up these skills and attention to detail from somewhere previous?

your workshop and equipment doesnt look ammature

Edited by D4VE on 11th Jun, 2015.

Not really mate, my first time welding was on this car, my dad showed me the basics and the rest is self taught. We need the workshop for our work but we made sure it was big enough to fit a few cars in

We bought the 2 post ramp off one of our customers for 150, everything else is just basic stuff really

I got a quote off surface processing who are in Walsall I think, they wanted 90 quid per door!

I had my shell dipped at ribble technologies.Great service.They even kept my trailer whilst they had the shell.

Turned the mini around today and got the passenger side bolted on, the gaps are pretty shit but the door shuts well and tucks in nice at the bottom





Had a little helper today



Although he did bugger all most of the day

Edited by Callum on 11th Aug, 2017.

Not had much time on the mini recently as I have had to do some work on the house, but managed a few hours this week so carried on with the passenger door gaps, got them nearly finished today.

They were close at the front and nearly touching at the back, a lot better now but still needs a bit of work.

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Got to finish the bottom and the upper frame but the door apature needs some filler first so will have to wait to finish that

Edited by Callum on 11th Aug, 2017.

Put the door seal on and double check the fit - they can sometimes force the bottom rear corner out.

That happens when the A panel is welded in the wrong place so I have had the door seals on since the A panels were fitted, but thanks for the heads up. Would of been annoying to find that at this stage!

Edited by Callum on 10th Aug, 2017.

When I started gap at the bottom of the door I noticed more rust in the seam so the doors went back to be dipped again. Came back with a few small holes so I decided to take the door bottoms off so I could make some repairs, glad I did as they were very thin. In hind sight I probably should of just put new skins on.











With the frame repaired i made the door skin bottom, decided to joggle the joint and plug weld to avoid distortion. Seen this done on the quarter panel bottoms so thought it would be ok on the door as well, anyone see any issues with this?

Edited by Callum on 10th Aug, 2017.

Been working on the bootlid recently, it required a bit of brute force to twist it slightly so that all the corners seal fully on the rubber. Then i started to even out all the gaps as they were all too big, could fit my fingers in the bottom.

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The bottom gap now looks a bit tight in the middle so will double check that tomorrow, might just be the light. Shouldn't be much more welding now

Edited by Callum on 24th Jul, 2017.