mx5 powered mini clubman estate

[MrSpeedy]

Good grief!
I'd never have thought that them two would go together so well.
I admire the fact that you're stretching the width of the shell, I'd probably have just wanged on arches!
Also, another vote for clubman front end.

Keep up the good work

[devilishdesigner]

EPIC! This is why I love this forum

[Deleted]

another Epic vote ;D and the proportions look so right and a clubman front will be so good

Please please please finish this, we've seen so my epic builds just disappear and then some one has found the remains being flogged on fleebay

[avenger]

Please please please finish this, we've seen so my epic builds just disappear and then some one has found the remains being flogged on fleebay [/quote]


don't worry, our kid finishes every thing he starts (apart from the mk3 escort, but its time will come when a bigger workspace is sorted!)

[digler]

Feb 1, 2013 8:30:45 GMT @moore said:

another Epic vote ;D and the proportions look so right and a clubman front will be so good

Please please please finish this, we've seen so my epic builds just disappear and then some one has found the remains being flogged on fleebay

Oh it'll get finished ok, it turned out to be a very simple convertion.
I did it this way to take the best of the mx5 and use all its stuff, instead of having to make everything, the car will be driveable throughout the whole job, then any engine work can be done in the winter.

[danirose74]

Love it Dirk, keep up the good work m8. will be fitting that mx5 roof next week, cheers

[Barrass]

Love this , been planning the very same with a mk2 polo breadvan so will probly be pestering you with questions later in the year

[unitybonez]

Thats gonna be sweet! How youre plannin to fix the steerin column/front seat arrangment? If you are of course, i wouldnt mind gettin in from the rear LOL
I personally would have built a frame and fit the engine and suspension on it, but i can see the reasonin behind the "rebodying" thing.
Thumbs upp

[joeyman96]

Feb 5, 2013 16:01:55 GMT Barrass said:

Love this , been planning the very same with a mk2 polo breadvan so will probly be pestering you with questions later in the year

hmm i have been thinking the exact same thing!.....

[digler]

been doing some rapair work on the mini shell around the door piller on the drivers side, but also done some work on moving the drivers seat forward. ive modified the pedals so they are 2" forward and the steering wheel is now 4" forward than standard.
got soe pictures of it outside in the day light too.

but first i boxed off the other sill.













then it was time to sort the piller out, a job ive but putting off because its shot!!, but got on with it and made up a new piller.





made a new door mounting panel from box section.

[digler]

not posted for a bit, but ive still been busy.
ive now got the shell mounted on the floor, and i'm slowly working my way around welding the shell to the floor. i started with the sill area,





sill welded







moved rear lamp over















so thats how it stands at the moment, ive opened the shell up at the back by 55mm each side, so the back is 110mm wider than standard, i think it looks good.
i'm needing some new panels for around the back windows and back door step, so i'll have to get some very soon.

[cobblers]

Wow! This is awesome, thanks for taking the time to sling some photos up!

[mk2polobloke]

Fantastic work going on here, just love this conversion.
The stretch on the rear and moving the light housings out is just right.
It's a shame you couldn't have kept the wheel arches a bit nearer to Mini proportions though. What wheel/tyre size are you intending to use?

[bmcnut]

I love this, awesome chassis choice and fantastic body body choice, the two together work so right. Little touches like moving the rear lights over when widening the rear pillars may hint at just how great the finnished article is going to be. With the pillars like that hardcore mini people may be fooled into thinking its a fibreglass kit body or summink, here we see the skillz.

[Deleted]

I like the body flair idea, it's hardly going to be noticeable when done, but it'll make a lot of different when you get the new arches fitted.

[flyingphil]

Just a thought - but couldn't you have "just" inserted the extra width right through the centre of the car? As per Issigonnis and the Morris 1000? But the flair works well.

[Deleted]

This is looking bloody lovely! Coming along nicely too.

Loving the use of fence posts too - you know you're not going to have any rot issues using those galv'd and powder coated beauties!

As already said, great choice with the '5 and the Clubby looks to be growing into its new shoes nicely!

Love it!

Joe

[luckygti]

Pretty much all been said but this is starting to look really good. Absolutely loving the way the back end has been widened, in fact I just love this car period!! Car of the year so far for me ;D

[craig1010cc]

Feb 23, 2013 20:37:57 GMT flyingphil said:

Just a thought - but couldn't you have "just" inserted the extra width right through the centre of the car? As per Issigonnis and the Morris 1000? But the flair works well.

But then you'd need custom glass making and trying to not warp the roof would be fun as you weld in a strip to fill the hole.

I like were this is heading

[monsterz4]

The rear wings have been flaired, and very nice too, but with the rear being wider now, substantially towards the bottom, is this being continued forward through the car? Otherwise that rear wing will be flexed by the time it reaches the back of the font door/B-pillar area?