I agree with Jasonf. Do what you want with it. It is a sweet start!
Be sure to keep us all posted on the progress.

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thanks heaps jasonf, love your work,
so there it is anyway, guess i should have got a photo after polishing it, still see dull patches in that one!!!

i will keep everyone updated, i'll try to get pics of my old mans mini on there too, it is a 71 clubby already finished with the 4efte conversion, just in show car quality so bit hard to disect it and copy it you know....

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1978 1275LS HIHO Silver with 13 x 7 Superlites
1972 Clubman GT Ex NSW Police HWP
1971 Clubman 4EFTE powered

Riddo,

If you need help, its just a PM away.

There are quite a few guys on her that have done mega-successful conversions on the forum. They aall are great guys and eager to help.

Cheers,
Tricky

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thanks heaps guys..

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1978 1275LS HIHO Silver with 13 x 7 Superlites
1972 Clubman GT Ex NSW Police HWP
1971 Clubman 4EFTE powered

Nice looking car Riddo,good base to start with and should be awesome with a 4EFTE in it. I like the silver.
cheers Hallsey

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Speaking of guys who have done conversions who are eager to help - heres one just now!!

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thanks again guys.... i pick the front cut up during the week, then got to start somewhere?????

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1978 1275LS HIHO Silver with 13 x 7 Superlites
1972 Clubman GT Ex NSW Police HWP
1971 Clubman 4EFTE powered

Good stuff riddo.

How are you picking it up? Hopefully not with it perched on top of a box trailer like I did.
The whole way home I kept thinking that if it fell off it would just look like the scene of some horrific accident:D

Cheers
Madmorrie

have a big trailer im going to put it in, have done the front cut thing before!!

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1978 1275LS HIHO Silver with 13 x 7 Superlites
1972 Clubman GT Ex NSW Police HWP
1971 Clubman 4EFTE powered

Good luck Riddo, and dont be afraid to ask for advice if you think you need it!

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Very nice LS to start with, just keep the conversion to the same standard and you will be right

You got any pics of your dad's mini? Where are you located?

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Starlet Conversion:
http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15484

will get some up as soon as i can

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1978 1275LS HIHO Silver with 13 x 7 Superlites
1972 Clubman GT Ex NSW Police HWP
1971 Clubman 4EFTE powered

can any of you that have done the conversion tell me if there is any major problems that you encountered when doing the conversion, that i may need to look out for, that is certain things that have to be done that are not obvious at first?
i'm hoping to get most of the bits to do the conversion before i start pulling my mini down, was going to use another subframe and get all of that done before even touching my car.. possibly having the subframe ready for the engine out of the car then installing subframe to car one complete?
i would appreciate anyones ideas on getting started with this.... also has anyone got any spare subframes?

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1978 1275LS HIHO Silver with 13 x 7 Superlites
1972 Clubman GT Ex NSW Police HWP
1971 Clubman 4EFTE powered

Riddo, read Tricky's (Archangel007)'s El-Gato post completely. He has gone into a lot of detail, esp on the Sub frame side of things.

Dicko

Thanks Dicko!!

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