Started the year by pulling the dash out of the car,
I was a bit concerned when I removed the radio, back in November, that the
wiring looked like a lot of it was held together by insulating tape.
I had planned to swap the switches anyway, and add a ignition switch with "fighter" style
cut-off and a start button, rather that use the ignition key switch that had
a steering lock fitted, that I wasn't very keen on having on a, mainly, track
car.
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Next on the list of things that needed checked, was the heater unit, this is a Mini unit but suffers from the lack of an outside air feed, I'll have to see what can be done about this. But firstly it needs a check over and a clean up.
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Once the heater was out I decided that the pipes to the matrix exited on the wrong side, so as is common on the Mini's I decided to reverse the matrix so that the pipes exited from the passengers side, this should allow more space at the drivers side, where I hope to fit an external air intake.
Managed to win a set of "bucket"
seats on Ebay, and traveled to Glasgow to pick them up. The seats had been
previously fitted to a Triumph Spitfire, but were in excellent condition.
More of the interior had been removed, the carpets and both seats were removed so I could check out the condition of the floor panels, these seem fine, so it will mainly be a case of removing the existing glue/paint and re-coating in epoxy paint and rubber matting.
