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Well its been a fun 3/4 years of mini-ing and the dreaded first accident happened. So the second rebuild is now under way.

The car started of life as a Mot failure, and had a full nut and bolt rebuild including bare metal respray all by myself. The first 5k with a stage 2 998 and the next 15k with a stage 3 1293. Heres a couple pics:















Then i slid it down a ditch and this is where we are now:



Front left hand corner got bent and the center of the windscreen surround pushed down, but have pushed it all back out and straightened it up.

Engine is a Morspeed trackday kit (hardened and balance crank, balanced rods, center main strap, arp rod bolts, arp head bolts, phase 3 cam etc.) Which is needing a rebuild already after only 15k. Have got some new 21253 + 40 pistons ready and some other new exciting bits to go on. The head is a morspeed phase 3, which will either be modded to lower the compression for the turbo or sold.

All stripped down ready to be bored and rebuilt:



Gearbox - fully rebuilt standard helical, cpu, mini spares x-pin diff.



New timing gear i'm looking forward to trying out:

whats happing with the 1293 pistons???

and compression run a decompression plate

Edited by just_jack on 26th Oct, 2008.

Jack Jones

Glad to see your going turbo. At the rate you work it will probably be finished before mine !

On 12th Nov, 2009 Paul S said:

I think Gary OS has taken over my role as the forum smart arse

That looked mint before your little incident!

Good luck with the second rebuild.

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1/4mile in 13.2sec @ 111 terminal on 15psi

The 1293 pistons will be kept as paper weights, there a bit scuffed on the skirts, but have only done 15k just the bores are worn so need to go next size up. The pistons are yours if you want them though.

how much you looking at for the pistons,
if they are cheap i will have them off you when i pick up the cage if thats ok.

also will you be free any night this week for me to pick it up one night this week i get bored at night and havent got anything planned so could pick it up earlier then this weekend

Jack Jones

gutted about the roll it looked great before!
Good luck with the future plans

liking the timing chain cover, wheres that from, never seen one of those before?.

133.5 bhp 123 lb torque 116mph @6640rpm 9.5psi
Shakespear RWYB 14.995 91.83mph

Its a minispares vernier belt drive timing kit, designed to reduce timing scatter and run quiter.

More progress has been made this week.

Bulkhead boxed out, still needs a bit more welding as some of the seams are still only tacked:







Both rear arches tubbed:









Petrol tank hole welded up:



Boot floor cut out ready for flat sheet:



The best thing I've ever made, makes it so much easier to repair/modify a shell:





All of the tabs and battery cable strip removed from underside of the floor:



Also got the roll centre miglia spec cage ordered, should be here in 5-6 weeks time.

looks similar to something im doind in my garage! only your actually making progress!! love the pit youve made! im tempted to make one myself only my garage is alot smaller than yours!!

Yeah it only cost £40 in 40mm box section and 3/4 hours designing cutting and welding it together.

Did you steel my car while i was out and take all the parts off it?

Edited by MikeRace on 13th Nov, 2008.

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

Lol they are very similar, but wont be orange for much longer. Also looking at the tdk dash aswell, not seen any others i like as much.

im lovin this build keeper lit!! :)

That mini is determined to Kill me!!!!

Wow, looked very nice before, and looks like its going to be even better this time

Bit more progress has been made, but still waiting on parts is slowing me down, the roll cage is apparently another 2 weeks, and the fibreglass bits and the alloy door skins should be with me within a week.

Front n/s foot well corner replaced:



Bulkhead box (supplied by millamber) fitted:





Wiper motor set-up figured out. Started off with a standard motor from a metro afaik, and shortened the shaft down and made some new fixing brackets:









Door bottoms replaced, and a bit of weight chopped out of them, just waiting on the alloy skins now:







95% of the wiring loom finished, just the shielded cable needed for the ecu, mock up panel of the switch layout made aswell:

Looking very professional. I wish my wiring was that neat!

That looks a top build. That wiper motor looks familiar. Glad it's been usefull for you.

Neat wiper solution.

Are you going to get this MOT'd ?

Edited by Paul S on 4th Jan, 2009.

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Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

Looking good mate, what colour are you planning.

The shell looks mint. are you needing a roof skin still?

Rick

The wiring has taken a lot of planning, supprising how much it costs to make a loom, when you add up all the cable, and switches.

Thanks again for the motor, just got to figure out the park switch wiring now.

Was gonna get it mot'd if its suitable when its build, but tbh doesnt really matter either way, as its prodomantly gonna be used on the track.

Gonna be painting in vauxhall glacier white, same as the vauxhal vxr's i think it loks awesome. Dave kimberly should be sorting me a roof skin as he's only a few miles away, but will let you know.