Coudl some one please tell me which companies stock rover fornt panels and bonnets to complete this project. Also could someone please tell me what is exactly involved and how much it may cost

Thanks

MiniGTi

you cant re register a flip fronted car in melbourne i dont think, well thats what mini bits were saying, aything that interfears with the structural peices of the car isnt legal, stupid law i reckon, flip fronts are mad

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Potato

Yep is a stupid law, but I would say with an engineers report you might get it passed don't know???

yer i spose, would cost a bit wouldnt it?

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Potato

Yep like anything when you get into mods of a structural kind. You guys have plenty of engineers over there sure you could find some at a good price who knows what they are doing.

Its good that you are considering the tin flipper.
'Glass ones are freakin orrible.

What about the blue GT in melbourne with a flip front?

peolly done before the new law was passed

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Potato

I've heard that as long as the inner guards remain you dont need an engineering certificate..but then again i may have heard wrong!

Is it possible then to convert a clubman to a round nose without doing a flip front, just using rover panels. If this is possible how do you go about increasing the length of the guards and bonnet.


MiniGti

How about if you Dont actually put fibreglass panels on it? That way, you're not gonna get anyone official noticing that the panels aren't the right ones

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Cheap, Fast, Reliable. Choose two.

all depends on the year of the car to. what ADR's if any does the car have to comply with.

Yes It will have to be engineered.

No the inner gaurds don't have to stay BUT brase bars are a must.

Fibre glass is crap... weights more then the steel panels and the paint does not stay on it as well.

Ring a engineer and ask for you area. But I got the OK to do it hear in NSW...

and If its a rule to do with ADR's I am sure its the same in Vic

i actually have a fibreglass flip front and i rang up vic roads and asked them about replacing panels with fibre glass and as long as the car is pre 1969 you are alowed to have any panel fibre glass as long as the rigidity structure of the car has not been altered as there is a lack of panels for oldercars. meeni can u please ellaborate on this new legislation and when it did u come across it? there are a few vic mini's running flip fronts some with inner and some with out inner guards. um i think the reason most parts on race these days are fibre glass is because it ways less than the mild steel panels are made out of! eg: lighter. you can also get carbon/fibre glass to have better strength properties than the steel that is on older cars.

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floating on fluid

I really have decided about not going the filip front route, not enough money and time to do it. Is it possible to convert a clubman front to a rover front without doing a flip front and what is the process in doing so.

Yep, just buy the new panels, you need the two front guards, and the front apron. Then its just a matter of cutting off the old panels and welding on the new panels.