My Car as of today.
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Yes I still use them, I've changed them slightly as I've changed my shock mounts, but basicly the same just a few mm longer

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wow, I had no idea the car had been built in it's current state (minus the 16v motor) for such a long time!

has it been rebuilt/sprayed since 2005 Jim? or do you just take incredibly good care of it?

the car is simply awesome, it's an inspiration to so many people!

Mr. Prawn, the friendly Crustacean- slowly making steps towards forced induction.

Yes i moved to the darkside

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Is that the tesco 200m from jims house?

jim lives his life 1/4 mile at a time.......

jim lives his life 1/4 mile at a time.......

lol, cheers guys,

Not done to much in the car, but when it does get used it gets driven hard, trackdays, 1 mile oval race, fastest mini in the world race, and the mitp, avon each year. Hopefully will get used more next year.

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10 years ago I rebuilt my mini for the 2nd time, well now it's time for the next rebuild.
back in 2005 I the aim was a road legal turbo charged miglia. Now the car is not going to be road legal, the aim is the fastest steel bodied mini around brands hatch. This is how the car is now, loaded in the back of the trailer ready for the grinder to make some serious mods. Not sure on what colour it's going to be yet.

I've sold 99% of the old suspension parts so no turning back now. First race in 5 weeks. Full time job, and two small kids so I expect a lot of late nights ahead. Anyone got a credit card I can borrow?

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What's the plan? Same engine with more of a spaceframe affair and spangly suspension?

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

Can I be at Brands when it comes out, please ?

Bloody hell Jim!

ill be watching this one! 5 weeks untill 1st race? best of luck.

When yo say steel bodied does that include steel front too? or do you just mean not space framed?

Matt W

Looking forward to progress on this. I tske it Endaf will be involved. He seems to be able to turn these out efficiently and top notch to match judging by his updates

5 weeks!?

Exciting stuff.

In the 13's at last!.. Just

Burn the mid night oil and remortgage the house! good luck dude

give me a shout jim if you need extra pair of hands..

terry

Any updates?

mine: http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=570945

The 5 weeks are up, what happened to the car??

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Progress has been a lot slower than expected, goal posts keep moving, but here are some updates.
The rear arches where removed:



a new rear arch was constructed higher up and further back than before.




the shell was blasted again to remove the gay yellow



The front cage was extended further forward to allow a ridged fixing point of the coil overs



new shock mounts fabriacted



A new geartower was created, ready for new billet housing to follow
While all this was going on, I started working on a new pedal box






I also made some new top arms which should make the car 90mm wider



and here is the new rear hubs, with slots in the disks for wheel speed sensors.




The rear beam and back arms are still work in progress, both made from t45.



Camber adjustment will be on back arm, and tracking will be done on the beam axle.

Because the car is going to be so wide, there were no wheel archers I could find available to cover the wheel arches. so I started extending a set using mdf, a glue gun and some fibreglass. Horrid job, this took ages!!! I also made side skirts and modified a lower front airdamn




I have this plug to a friend who made a mould from them and supplied me with these:



with all this gay bad boy boost style body kit, and with the car going so low I know I would never get a jack under it. So brackets were fabricated for air jacks.



I still have some small brackets to fabricate before the car goes for paint this week. Engine is ready to drop back in, along with new turbo and manifolds.

Next big job is the wiring loom, by far will be most fiddly I've done, with loads of data logging for downforce, traction control, antilag, drive by wire, pit lane speed limiters, flat shifters, methanol injection, coil on plug.I think I'll need a lot of wire!!!

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Looks excellent, lots of good stuff going on

Be interested to know what weight you can get the beam and rear arms down to.

Good to see the rear trailing arms have some height / depth in section to maintain some camber stiffness, there are plenty out there that don't

Don't stick your foot under the air jack

I'll weigh them when they are done. It's amazing how much a standard radius arm flexes with 8" wide sick on the back. A

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