jpboost's van
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looking very nice

wow, that is looking great! what colour is it on the outside?

looks like a potential mag feature car!

A-series power! 1972|1310|T3 turbo|Omega pistons|Cantre main strap|Orange clutch diaphragm|AP race plate|Comp pressure plate|Lightened steel flywheel|13-row oil cooler|Vernier duplex timing gear|Phase 2 Piper cam|Green air filter|Hi boost carb needle/spring|2"Stainless exhaust|3"Play mini stainless rear box|Jack Knight s/c 4spd gearbox|Jack Knight s/c drop gears|Silicon coolant hoses|Lumenition HT leads|GAZ lowered height shocks all round|Steel flip-front|Rear safety devices cage|Group 5 arches|6x12 deep dish Minilites|Surf blue/Old english white|

looking very nice and love the colour what sort of spec engine you going to put in it????

Hi guys,

Glad you like my van. It's taken all my spare cash for quite a while now.

I'll post a full spec up when it's all finished.

I've got most of the bits to finish. The next main job is the wiring loom.

colour is of bavarian origin.

John

Too many projects!

Hows the rear part of the cage fitted and whats the origin of it?

Im tempted to put one in my next project and was thinking of a custom rear half that bolts to the rear arches as a saloon one would. I dont want to mess with the rear load bed plus i want to add some mounting points for the harnesses.

Cheers
Iain

Iain

It was a standard rear cage with no diagonal. I had the extra bits made up. It's bolted and welded in. I had to extend the front legs of the cage of course, due to the wheelbase ebing longer.

The loaddeck is shorter as well. Otherwise you can't fit any decent deats in. Harnesses are going on the cross member of the cage.

I'm sure I can find some other pictures if you are interested.

John

Too many projects!

Yeah id love some please.

Ive definately bought a turbo'd van now so need some inspiration of what to do.

So its easy to buy a saloon cage and alter you reckon?

Im not wanting to alter the load bed length to be honest. I was going to get some Sparco sprints as i had them in my last mini and loved them.

Thought they would squeeze in on solid mounts.

Im only 5' 10"