[Shartak]

Did I nailed it ?

Gonna wet-sand it with 3000 grid then polish, sealant, wax and we're good

 

[Shartak]

This gonna happen

 

[Spidermonkey]

Did I nailed it ?

Gonna wet-sand it with 3000 grid then polish, sealant, wax and we're good

Looking good, what primer did you use for this?

 

[Shartak]

Looking good, what primer did you use for this?

Primer : AUTO-K : 233032
Black Paint : Motip : 46830
varnish : Motip : 04009

With a lot of fine wet sanding on some wet coat of paints.
It's on the car now and it looks like new from the dealership :thumbup:

 

[Spidermonkey]

Primer : AUTO-K : 233032
Black Paint : Motip : 46830
varnish : Motip : 04009

With a lot of fine wet sanding on some wet coat of paints.
It's on the car now and it looks like new from the dealership :thumbup:

Thanks, look forward to seeing it

 

[Shartak]

Thanks, look forward to seeing it

The weather is shit, but the light was spot on to do a good pics of the result, as you can see it is the same color and finish.

 

[o0_disel_0o]

Very nice man I need to get round to blacking all the bling on mine too

 

[scoobydoo]

suit it well on a black R53

 

[Shartak]

suit it well on a black R53

Wait until I do Joey Mod :drool:

 

[Shartak]

Quick update, this is happening :

It needs a bit of love and repair tho...

 

[Pobsey]

Aero kit?

 

[Shartak]

Aero kit?

Yup, full kit. With some bonus pieces that gonna be sold like aero rear wing, CC wheel arches and grills.

The front bumper really is trashed tho.. I don't know if I'll be able to repair it.
But for the price I paid it, it's not that bad I guess.

 

[Shartak]

Well, it's been a long time since I posted something here,
I repaired the full aero kit, it was a shitload of works as it was so trashed.. I'll post some pics of that ASAP.
The car now run an OBX manifold with a homemade tomcat to a R52 Non-res milltek cat-back. It sounds amazing, my neighbourgs loves it :thumbup:
I recently start to wrap my dashboard with some glossy carbon vinyl, it's clearly perfectible, but for a first shot, I'm more that happy with the result. will post some pics ASAP too.
And I plastidiped the grey rings, for the speedo, vents... in matte black.

Now i'll be time for the big maintenance and bodykit install, coilover inspection as they started to knock, RCA instal ect...
But I miss a door sill, do someone have this in stock : part num : 51710154680

Will see where all of this leads me, cheers !

 

[Astroboy]

Good to hear you are making progress

 

[Shartak]

So long time with no update, but I'm making progress.
This has happened

 

[Shartak]

French MINI meet this summer :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXTEPFJKTiU

 

[Shartak]

Oh boy it's been a minute since I went here ! I missed you guys !

Long story short, back in mid 2019 the mini started to shit itself (Fuckin' Mini right..), so I got myself a new fun and bigger daily :

I needed a releable daily to go to work, and the mini was starting to give me anxianty, and my GF was also giving me so much shit about the mini, I had to get out of this situation..
So I got rid of that girl and kept my mini .

Fast forward 2 week ago, I finaly started to work on the mini again:

There is so much shit to do.. Most of everything is leaking, cracked, rusty..
I'm just hopping I'll not have to change the head gasket for now, I would rather prefer doing that at the same time that the big engine internal upgrades.

I'll get in more details about all the issues the car have in an other post, because I've been out of the Mini world for so long that I don't know most of the things..

Anyway, glad to work on that old piece of junk again, I feel like you can't never get over these cars..
Cheers !

 

[Shartak]

And finally, this piece of History, the OG will recognize the original Hobbocooler from Collin.

 

[Maccmike]

Good work

 

[Shartak]

Oh well... Fuck me I guess..Fuckin'Mini 😑
That's some parts the lower 2nd piston.. Nice.

Should I just change the engine all together at this point ?

Or I could just full send, and go from a hobo sub 2000£ repair to a 10 000£ full forged project...