Monty the Rwd R1 engined tarmac eating Minus by Alburglar

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I hope to answer everyone's questions all at once:

Zcars will deliver but it's £500 all the way down to me -and everone is racing because it's bank holiday weekend, so It still wouldn't arrive till tuesday afternoon.

There is still a lot to do on this car. Getting it on it's wheels is just the begining.

... and as far as getting zcars to finish the car so I can drive it down - well that would cost about 5 grand!

SO What's happening? Well Most transporters just cant' be arsed with a 10hour roung trip, but I have found a firm who are delivering it pretty cheap, but not until Thursday the 7th. The day after we get back from the ring.

Mark - I Haven't got that picture any bigger. I'll take some decent ones after the ring run and send them to you.

9-7-2006

well she's at home at last.

I've been busy sorting the birds nest of wiring out and removing anything unneccesary
slave cylinder is already plumbed in and working now.

9-12-2006

This picture is pants because I took it with my mobile, but this was a wiring nightmare. I think I have removed about 40 metres of un-required / burnt out sh1tty 1969 wiring. I have an alarm/immob in the loom and somm wires run out to engine bay, change colour and then double back to under dash etc, in order to make it difficult to bypass. so tracing wires has been hard. I think I'm winning tho.

I have also been tidying up the shell, as where z's have not waisted any time doing that, as time costs money, they just cut out what was needed pretty roughly and got on with other stuff.
I've got more time now I'm not rushing to a deadline so I'm engoying doing things nicely.

Minus shells has a lot of integral steel in them, like a roll hoop in the roof and large plates where the subframe mounts to the body and where the seatbelt bolts go, etc. Some of this has now been exposed where the rear bench has been removed so it's all needed painting. This is where an upright section in the rear quarter meets the bottom seatbelt bolt, wich in turn is welded to a section in the sill.

My rear quarter windows were leaking terribly when I bought the car and had been for years by the look of these metal plates in the rear floor pans. I spent hours grinding the crud away with a little attachment on my dremel, so as not to damage the powder coat on the roll cage floor mount. It came up ok...

So I then used Hammerite Kurust, which turns rusty surfaces into treated primered steel, then painted with normal hammerite.

not very exciting I know, but all very necessary. I've also had to find a jack that will fit under the car. This has not been easy as I only have 4inch clearance. Most available that fit the bill cost from £300 to £1500!
but i found one on ebay the will clear the 4 inch sill height and reach 42cm under the car. I love ebay...if the jack ever turns up!

also spent a long time brain storming about my bulk head, which does not fit for two reasons. Firstly because it's built for a normal mini shell and secondly because the bulkhead kit is designed for a frame with the harness hoops mounted on a bar at the rear. my bar is mounted right where the normal kit is. I think I've got a plan sorted now tho.

took another pic of it with a decent camera too!