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Has any covered there mini with a fibreglass space frame one, one with no floor and if so what did you cut away or not cut away to keep a solid mini?

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Fibreglass shells are basically meant for full, and I mean full rollcages to be installed, I would want nothing less road or track car, imagine how unsturdy it is and how easily damaged it could be by other road users, steel shells are bad enough.

They're actually pretty sturdy. Well my minus is anyway!

Nobody I know has done this. There are two types of grp mini.

1. Full space frame chassis with a fibre glass body (see alan's evo mini, or a maguire mini)
2. Full GRP monocoque like a mini minus or a pimlico.

You can obviously put on grp doors, boot, front end bonet and even roof, but the core structure of the shell still remains.

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what about bounding a complete fibreglass body on a steel mini? just a big bodykit right?

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I'm sorry, but why the hell would anybody want to do that? For one it would be a massive rust trap, and two it would look really really shit.

Bond a FG shell of a mini, on to a steel mini??

He means using a mini floor with a fg body... gash

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This is possible, but what is your motivation to do this? I can't think why you would want to do this unless I am missing something?

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id not do what your proposeing with a mini due to the body desinge the roof and floor are the chassi so to speek
on the other hand if you have ever seen a vw beetle with the shell off it you could ealy dump a Fiber glass body on top and still be compltly strucaly sound given a good cage!

what i'm saying is if your mini is in bad repair this would be easier than changing panels, weld patches and just cover the whole mini, only prob I see is weight and what to cut away.

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So instead of fixing the problems your just going to let them get worse? Probs faster than without it if it's just going to hold in water on the already crusty parts. Are you planning on using this on the road?

They don't die, they just get faster!

I just see it as a completely bad idea. Weld it up properly or just get another in better repair, if you bodge it i guarantee it won't last two years before it starts falling apart :/

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No, this is not a solution to the rust problem. The structure of the mini needs to be intact. You can't replace like for like metal with grp on stressed parts of the shell.

As already said replacing front wings, boot, bonet and doors with grp is fine. Anything else would not really work. If you look at a grp shell it look similar on the outside, but on the inside there is some seriously thick structural grp that you just can't bond to a metal shell.

Learn to weld, it is probably cheaper anyway.

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