My latest hair brained Idea
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Nic I wish it would do wheelies but Motorsport Ireland are funny about cars that do wheelies on the national race tracks, God only knows why lol

Well with the Race season now in full swing over here Im am geting far less time at this than I would like that coupled with the fact that I ran out of gas for the welder and the stupid spare bottle has a leak so it was two empty, ment I got far less done than hoped today but a few pic of the progress today.
basic mock up was done on the car



then I started to add bracing





A few more pic from the boot




how it all started



sorry about some of the pic I had to get a new camra and Im not up to speed with it yet :(

Neat idea Paul - one or two things I'm sure you've thought about but haven't mentioned. Camber gain - running the top arms at a high angle will make the camber gain aggresive/excessive, Migs get away with it because they ar ego karts - what a mig ride height would be like with this set up on the rear could be interesting! - toe change, again beneficail if set correctly and goes in hand with bump steer - looking forward to seeing how you get on in testing - you'll have to drill lots of holes in the donut to lose stiffenss from themto compensate for the lack of weight on the back.

JK

If Carling made Mini engines
it would probably be like this one!

Thanks John, I have been thinking hard about these things, Please feal free to elaborate on the top arm isue, I must confess Im far from Knowlegable on all the aspects of this idea, There will be a lot of trial and error in geting this I have been in talks with a local GTM coupe race driver as they have most these isues but on the front

good work, dont forget to weight it against a rear subby before you fit it.

no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.

legend mate, i can now go show my dad i can be done :) i think 4wd is still on the cards...maybe next mini

Yes i moved to the darkside

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Taught I would Up date this a bit,
Nearly all the welding is sorted on this I had some issues with the shock fowling the inner wing so had to re fab a new shock mount, I have just ordered some Fiesta Brakes,
I have a good load of pic but walked out of the work shop tonight an forgot the camra.

I have worked out that the back of the car weighs 190KG with tank of petrol and wheels, Has anyone got a figure for how much the front of a mini weighs with engine wheels etc ? I'm trying to work out the weight difference for modifing the cones.

Edited by PaulH on 27th Jun, 2009.

you need to find the weight without including the sprung weight (i.e wheels).

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