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How long does a mini project take?
One Month 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
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three to six months 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
six to twelve months 7%  7%  [ 3 ]
one to two years 5%  5%  [ 2 ]
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never ending 70%  70%  [ 30 ]
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PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2005 10:51 pm 
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Well guys how long does your mini project take you? We arnt all machines & pump out perfect pink machines....

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how long is a piece of string.

i bought the mini minor in 1990. It is still evolving. They never ever end. :D

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PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2005 11:17 pm 
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Baracade wrote:
We arnt all machines & pump out perfect pink machines....


:lol:

well the yellow machine Brad had since he was 16 (now 22 i hear)
so i guess it makes up for it

as with mickmini, thats shameful

nah i agree, Herman was sposed to be a bog standard matic
but i keep finding little alterations (most reversable) and love adding them on

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PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2005 11:19 pm 
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68matic wrote:
Baracade wrote:
We arnt all machines & pump out perfect pink machines....


as with mickmini, thats shameful

nah i agree, Herman was sposed to be a bog standard matic
but i keep finding little alterations (most reversable) and love adding them on


yeah, but if the engine in the 850 did not fade away, the most i would have done to it would have been to polish it. i still have not polished it.....

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For me, Id like to see an option for "Always disassembling parts, but never reassembling them"... technically it never starts :lol:

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Ha ha - ditto. Even worse if you buy a 2nd mini before the first one is even 10% of the way there. At least Minis are small so you can fit loads on the driveway...


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I am almost at the 3 year mark...and still counting.

My restoration will be 'finished' when it gets registered, but the tinkering will NEVER stop! :D


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Been 8 years for me... only just starting to think about bodywork now . . . .

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PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2005 9:12 am 
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I bought my mini when I was 16, I had huge plans then bought another reliable, more practical car, then 3 more cars after that, now I have a new car that I can happily say is finished and needs no more work so I can start back on the mini now :D Its nice only having 2 cars and just 1 to spend money on 8)

So I am up to 5 years and just starting. I plan on taking it back to bare metal first and spraying it then disk brakes and 13's then a decent powerplant to make it go.

I want a 14 second mini and nothing less, my other car runs 12's but I dont think it will catch the mini in the corners when Im done.


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dansedgli wrote:
I want a 14 second mini and nothing less, my other car runs 12's

you are a very greedy person.

keep it up!

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My original intention was to have it on the road in time for summer
- not next summer
- not last summer
- the summer before :oops:

:lol: :lol: :lol:
What did I know about projects then?
:lol: :lol: :lol:

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PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2005 12:05 pm 
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Well I started in late July last year, so 9 or 10 months so far. I figure another 3 and she should be going so possibly late July this year, making it 12 months. I figure when I get my rego papers I can say she's finished I am a bit worried that the nazis at Rego will try and find everything they can wrong with it because it is a hibrid. Then comes the turbo mods to get her really moving. Should be a rolling chassis by the end of May...

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Mini van - 3.5 years from dragging home the shell to completed and registered. Thought it would take 6-12months.
Moke - 2yrs+ and counting.
Traveller - 3yrs+ and snoring.... :lol:

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PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2005 1:42 pm 
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Too bloody long if you ask me. Had mine since 2000 and it still isn't finished. But it isn't like you work on it all day every day or even every weekend. Got to work, do uni and spend time with the gf so these things all eat into the mini building time. Just got to hunt down all the parts you need for the job so when you do get a chance to work on it you can get stuck in and get a boat load done. Also if you don't change too much it will be quicker, where as I am changing lots of things so it is all fiddly time consuming stuff. Well worth it in the end not doubt.


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PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2005 3:25 pm 
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they take way to long,
i was just gonna make mine look nice, do as little body work as possible
then u start to find some rust u didn't wont to,
so u fix that, then u think if you paint the bits u fix ur car will be a different colour, so u end up doin a full respray, then u wont the interior
to match ur new colour so u do that

its all just to hard

mine so far is 1.5 years and it aint even painted yet:(:( :cry:

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