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welshdan

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27th Dec, 2008 at 02:16:22pm

hi, iv gone down to measure up today with regards to altering my bulkhead to fit a turbo box. the box i bought from the guy who makes them on here. it is very good quality.

was wondering what other options there are, as fitting such a box will remove the stud and bolt holes on the bulkhead tht an ultimate engine steady attatches to?

i have fitted these to all of my minis in the past. my old mpi went through standard and uprated bushed and ferrels in no time. i also like the solid feel of the engine when driving. i am worried that i will be changing these bushes every 5 mins with a turbo engine in the car.

hopefully i will be solid mounting the front subframe.

what do people here use to keep the engine from flopping about?

many thanks


Carl

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27th Dec, 2008 at 02:23:09pm

i thik the common thing to do is fabricate a new bracket for your steadie and weld it on when you do your box, well thats what i did any.

no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.

On 28th Nov, 2008 Sprocket said:
Oh now that is a long shaft you have Carl.

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27th Dec, 2008 at 05:09:09pm

i use one of the rose jointed top steadies in the normal place with a std lower one and its fine, no extra ultimate steady.

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turbogt

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27th Dec, 2008 at 10:13:12pm

I have pretty much the same as nick only with the addition of the back gearbox steady as used on the 1275gt's. So far so good and the engine is solid.

MONSTER HEDGEHOG

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27th Dec, 2008 at 10:54:37pm

ive got the two rear gearbox steadys from mini spares and polly mounts on the standard engine too clutch area steady, as well as quick release mounts.
i made up my own baulkhead box and welded 3mm plate into the baulkhead with 8mm nuts welded into it,
i cant stand the ultimate steady though *Sick* makes the engine a pig to work on



On 15th Dec, 2009 fastcarl said:
sell the lot to me for £70 pounds and i'll let you stand on the outside edge and look on my inner circle of closest frinds, lol


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28th Dec, 2008 at 11:19:17am

Ultimate engine steady thing are a Pain try to think of somthing else as staited, you can do a better job with a bit of thought.
*Confused*


BENROSS

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28th Dec, 2008 at 11:42:25am

my motors strapped in using the normal 2 steadys one on the OFF SIDE top and OFF SIDE btm

then i have added 3 more underneath gearbox to the subframe one on the OFF SIDE and 2 on the NEAR SIDE

it dosent move at all
you can get thes from minispares north aroung £9 ish

welshdan

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28th Dec, 2008 at 06:01:05pm

not sure if im being a bit thick here, but where do the exra steadys attatch to the engine/ gearbox?

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