T.E.D Pick-up

[T.E.D. Jordan]

As usual, Its been forever since my last update but I've been off work since the second week of march so I got a bit done with the moggy. Cars now on (modified) stilts as its miles quicker to work on at table-height.

Both B pillars that I bought were a little rusty on the bottoms but I knew this before I bought them so I have repaired both of them and cut them down to what I know I will need. I'll only include a couple of progress pics on one of them as the other is just he exact opposite:

Some of the rust damage from inside after fruther metal removal, all rust surfaces here were replaced with fresh metal:

Finished pieces, both are given a quick shot of black primer just to give them some rust protection for the meantime. If it looks a little uneven, its only because the paints still wet.

After these, I've made a start on the inner wings. The tricky part is getting them level in every direction with each other and since both sides are non-standard on the car, I've nothing to go from. Heres where I'm at after some cutting and bracing:

I'd like to say more updates soon but I cant imagine that being the case

Jordan

 

[Adrian Bravo]

Any progress? Looks like a lot of work needed.

 

[T.E.D. Jordan]

Small update - havn't really touched the moggy, at a standstill while I try to figure out how to attack the inner arches as I have NO DATUMS!!!!!!

Anyway, bit of an update!
I have 320bhp sat in a shed now inside the donor car! Picked it up saturday from solihull (!!!):





Too cold to take good pics, but its got everything I need for running gear etc - chuffed!
Jordan

 

[Rawb]

I like the way this is going. Looks like a great little restoration project.

Are you going to turn it RWD to match the donor car? That would be interesting.

 

[T.E.D. Jordan]

I like the way this is going. Looks like a great little restoration project.

Are you going to turn it RWD to match the donor car? That would be interesting.

Cheers - its no little restoration though lol. I'm building this car from scratch basically with my own chassis and suspension.

All Morris minors are rwd, just this one will have hopefully around 300% more power by the time its done.

Jordan

 

[Rawb]

Cheers - its no little restoration though lol. I'm building this car from scratch basically with my own chassis and suspension.

All Morris minors are rwd, just this one will have hopefully around 300% more power by the time its done.

Jordan

Learn something new everyday. It seems very thorough the restoration, just the way it should be, doing a great job so far.

300% more power usually means lack of traction, got any plans for solving this issue?

 

[T.E.D. Jordan]

Learn something new everyday. It seems very thorough the restoration, just the way it should be, doing a great job so far.

300% more power usually means lack of traction, got any plans for solving this issue?

Thanks

Re- lack of traction it'll be the custom independant suspension, wide wheels with good tyres and Traction control programmed into the aftermarket ECU that'll help keep it planted (leaning towards DTA but that's years of yet)

Jordan

 

[Munkul]

instead of doing this, he's busying himself with a bike engined go-kart. What a waste of time :bang:

 

[T.E.D. Jordan]

instead of doing this, he's busying himself with a bike engined go-kart. What a waste of time :bang:

Your comment is duely noted, and discarded. What was it you just sold recently I wonder

Jordan