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I used Fabsil Gold on my classic Mercedes SL roof and it worked an absolute treat. Watching water run off like liquid mercury, brilliant stuff.

Try bonding the body panels together! 😮

You may still have gas in the bottle! The first valve on the top of the bottle is on/off the next black one is your regulator this one has a reverse thread so the more you undo anti clockwise the less gas, if you wind it all the way out you won't get any gas, you don't need a lot of gas for what you're doing 7 - 12 lt/min too much and you draw in contamination and a bad weld and your just wasting gas, looks like you're doing a but weld this is the hardest to get right as someone mentioned brief pulses fraction of a second don't let it get hot, watch urchfab on turn up the heat for thin metal, welding overhead is also the hardest as you found out heats to a molten state and wants to fall on you, so easier to weld from the top, don't worry about burning hole occasionally we all do it once in while annoyingly. Keep going good on you for having a go. Don't mind helping people that want to learn that's why I started my CZcams channel, but I am serious hobbiest not a professional so don't know everything. Your doing great it's going to look awesome. Cheers Marty

When welding sheet metal you need to be on and off the trigger, don't hold onto the trigger for long or youll burn through.

Beautiful Mini It’s getting on very well ! Every step is well thought out! Where did you get those seats?

Great job with tubbing your mini!! I know exactly the mind block and the worries about cutting up your car. I'm going through that metal block right now, but it has to get done. Great vid as always! Looking forward to seeing the cage get built for the mini!!

Great job, a few pointers, you can plug weld instead of spot welds, drill 7mm holes around 30mm apart, just cut a strip of metal oversize so it sticks out past your quarter panel you can trim when welded up, buy a flange tool air or manual for the inside of the wheel arch it will make it easier and a stronger join, if you haven't got heaps of clamps use small tech screws to fit it all up before you start welding take a lot of attention of the shape of the quarter panel as you assemble, it can move out of shape very easily, just take your time, and as someone mentioned blow compressed air to cool each plug weld, oh start one end of the arch and plug weld each hole in turn till you get to the other end, if you plug weld randomly your metal could end up short which means you will have to stretch it and distort the quarter panel, metal shinks with heat, back yourself your doing an awesome job. Cheers Marty

Glu those parts together!

Not over engineered at all.......let's see your ski turns......

Cracking job fairplay. Watch the heat when you weld the lip and the new piece of steel in. I used an air line to cool down the welds and took my time so the rear quarter didn't get too warm and warp. Keep up the good work and stop putting your skills down.

Nice one, all's well that ends well, new skill to add to your bow 👍

Did y sell the engine?

Radio arms lol. But disco is close enough 😂😂 I’m trying one of your welding tips on my car today so I’ll drop you a mention.

Diameter of your brakes?

Is it permanent

Looking good, your question about welding. I was taught to pull the totch or drag it, if that makes sense.

i love this build and the car is awesome! i love kad products and own quite a few but after a year of asking them for a 16v build and trying to get them to sort it out i gave up. i lost count of how many emails and phone calls i made and each time i was given excuses which just left me deflated in spending that kinda money on their products when they had no interest in building an engine.

RVL8 are great skiboards but the sides and top surface damages real easy due to the construction method.

Will follow this!

Messy garage

Very excited to see this in your car..... Shouldn't take a day...... or two 😉

Absolute work of art 🙌 cant wait to see the progress. Will pop up and see you soon to arrange a board service 🏂

Lovely, you work hard.... you deserve it, can't wait to see it in the mini 😁

Nice video

Not that classic... LOL

Great video but way too much drums and bass

What models of the ipace has that camera as the rear view mirror?

What a great job! I need someone like you to straight up my garden 😊

Just watched your video, doing well, your nearly there with that horrible job cleaning the underneath, we are just doing our rally car now and hopefully be painted with anti stone chip next w/end. thank you for the shout out that was awesome, more than happy to help that's why I started my channel. rear sub frame are quite strong as they are you can add gussets in the corners but don't really need them on a road car. keep up the good work cheers Marty

Looking good, I welded the holes in the seat base as well, I couldn't find a washer to fit so used a few 5p pieces

Coming on nicely 😁

I am In love with the alloys on your mini! love your video's! keep them coming!

Great looking garden. Ignore the haters :)

Can you share the template?

Just ordered mine! What pedals & mud guard did you go for?

Nice work. And thank you for the shoutout. ❤

Hi RideRightwaxing & UKOneWheel, just uploaded video of the alternative to raptor. cheers Marty.

Worst job stripping paint but it looks like you're nearly there, Wurth makes a stone chip paint it's acrylic based so you can wash the gun out just with water, Rally guys are using it around me and rate it, no isocyanate like you get in rapter so you can spray in your garage, and It's cheaper, I have just bought some and will be doing a video soon. Glad you're getting some nice weather. we are lucky and blessed with dry warm weather we're we live, but it has been cold and wet lately. Keep up the good work. Cheers Marty

Hi ant, I just pm'd you on messenger buddy 🚗😃

Buy a mic.

Yeah could do it that way would save running another line, I went with two lines because that's what was on the car originally, the larger 3/8 is the return back to the tank, my regulator is variable as running a turbo, so starts around 3 1/2 psi on idle and increases with boost, there is an extra pipe running from plenum to regulator. Cheers Marty

Got to say I’m really not looking forward to doing this, but it’s inevitable. Mine is the same age as yours. It needs it. lol.

I don't know if you're doing it, but when I did mine I removed all the rubber bungs in the front and rear floor and welded them up.

I see you say you got carried away, you forgot to mention that some idiot with an orange mini suggested to fit an internal pedal linkage 🫣 having watched your adventures I’m really glad I didn’t now.

Well done mate. Looks like proper hard shitty work. I want “a few moments later” clip when you finally finish this beast. 😂👍👍

I think I would be tempted to paint the roof first with black fabric paint to get rid of those marks as you won't ever get an opportunity to do it again as it cant be painted onto silicon.The beading aspect is impressive but does it still allow the fabric to breathe? It was my impression that it isn't the fabric that is supposed to be waterproof but the rubber layer beneath??

260 mile range from a 90kWh battery is pretty poor. Is it possible to get more range with more efficient driving?

I looking for Buy one 2007 brown for only 400$🙏

Good work mate. 👍

Don't understand how there are so many views and such little feedback. This is a great, step by step video. It''s super informative on the techniques and explains the theory behind each step.