My 1971 mini van story from the begining
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Well I revived my mini intrests about 3 years ago (after a morgage , wife, son and a couple of buisneses you now the story LIFE lol) It started of as an advertisment and a delivery van for my shop and then the MINI BUG got me again. well in for a penny in for a pound or so they say.
It started of with a 1275 MG metro engine with a Hif 44.

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1971 turbo mini van
1978 clubman estate
1971 clubman

And then I decided I wanted to go a bit FASTER so I bought a set of twin 1" 1/2 carbs ok for a short time.

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1971 turbo mini van
1978 clubman estate
1971 clubman

id love a van, but interestingly whats the fpr doing

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Im a bit slow whats fpr.. just trying to up load more pics.. LOL

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fuel pressure regulator, first pic, top right

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Not a lot , its all about learning and making mistakes... I like to learn the hard way. Ill have another go at loading some pic tonight. Darren

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So you have a fuel pump and regulator on a n/a car. Now wonder you had issues!

Van looks nice though

depends what pump it is those facet ones are good for n/a

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Ive finnally worked out how to load pics.
These carbs were a big improvement on the single 1" 3/4 carb. But as you all now all we want to do is go faster.

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Then came the electronic dizzy.

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Then I decided to go for a turbo..
I found one for £200 with an extra £60 for the Metro Turbo 4 pot brake set up with drive shafts. It wasant the best looking engine with a home made delorto set up it also turned out to be a 1380 with omega pistons.

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ugley I now.. Then a few months past collecting bits thats needed. 2 core rad oil cooler, fuel reg , gaz coil overs , mini fines groved and dimpled discs with rebuild kit for the 4 pots and so my collection was growing , hoping the wife wouldent bump in to the post man LOL.
And then one night after 2 botles of red wine I was looking on ebay when I saw a MED 1293 FSI engin running an Eaton45 super charger as a blow throu in sted of a suck throu. It looked diferant than all the others ide seen so with out a thought for what I was doing Ide done the deal for £2500.. Belive me its one of the worst hangovers Ive ever woken up with, then it took over 3 weeks to be deliverd. I really thought Ide been had over. then I turned up so I hade to work out I could do an engine swap with out the wife nowing what I was up to. Just as I thought I had done the job here 14 year old brother had been on Ebay and seen my feedback, BUSTED he couldent wait to drop me in it B*****D. I just denied it all (she nows thou dont they always)

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1978 clubman estate
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Interesting turbo setup.

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

where my post go? :(

anyway love the diy inlet thing

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Out with the old and in with the new.







Ok after a week of really late nights working from 6pm till 2am ish we got it fited. It took another couple of nights to get it started the turbo carb kept flooding, we got it going and took it down the road and oh my god it went like a rocket for a few seconds and then died on me. Back to the carb again we tryed everything but no joy,
Then I put another carb on. no joy couldent get it to start when it was all piped up. So I ran it with out the pipes on just blowing in to the engine bay. Sounded great everyone on the street looked I mean everyone. We tryed over the next 6 weeks a night here and a night there no joy.
so I decided to take it to mini sport, I had them all scratching there heads in the end I was told to take a more direct rout with the pipe work . Rod told me there was too meanny bends in the pipe work so of I went to put it right.


Ok job done back to mini sport with a big smile on my face...
Just the same as before so I asked Rob just to set it up as a normal engine.

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1978 clubman estate
1971 clubman

I fitted a set of Gaz coil overs from jon speed



The rear ones were perfect just how I thought they were going to be.
The front ones well I thought the van was going to fall to pices , every little bump in the road I lost another filling in my teeth it was nasty. I tryed alsorts of hights but it was the same. I got in touch with Jin speed and they said theyed had a bad batch of brackets made so they sent me some new ones. I finally took the old brackets off after about 500 miles . look at the state of the coil overs.

Ive ended up seam welding the whole frount subframe and cutting away the towers were the donuts should be.


Ive not tryed mine yet but thers pleanty of play now with no bottoming out. My mates done the same to his with no problems the only differance is he running on 10" and Im on 13" wheels
so I think weve sorted that little problem.

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Then we came up with the idea of trying to make it into a suck throu keeping it in the same position.

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Is that a throttle body with an actuator on it? took me ages to figure out what the hell it was and what it did. Definitely is different, good luck

Well as you can see we made the two new bits after fitting the carb to the supercharger I decided to go for a burger in the van as the other carb was still conected OH MY GOD the noise from the air been sucked throu the new carb was defaning it sounded like a jet plane on take off, a really high pitch whistle . So that idea was another one for the scrap heap.. back to the drawining board again.. Oh the life of a mini owner some times I wish Ide just stuck with the standard set up NO NOT REALLY...

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Has eneyone spoted one of my big BIG mistake. Early on in my istalation when my carb was fluding and playing up..
Yes I changed it for a HIF44 and not a turbo carb THANKS MINI SPORT FOR NOT PICKING UP ON THIS and making me re rout the pipe work...

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My dash with blue LED lights

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Hi CR#, Well spoted its a Dolorto throttle body , Im going to use it when I fit my intercooler. Darren

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Well a few more months have past bringing me to January 2009 when I heard a slight knock that could be felt throu the rocker cover so I decided to take the head of and have a look before I knew were I was the whole lot was out and a full stripdown was on the cards. From this.....

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1978 clubman estate
1971 clubman