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http://www.theminiforum.co.uk/forums/index...howtopic=123521

i hate to pee on his bonfire but........ without extensive engineering skills and experience an a shed load of money also loads of tools etc ...... and a better shell ............ its a pipe dream

6" extended front! Lol

In the 13's at last!.. Just

Benross - did you flick through the pages? I thought siimilar reading page 1 but then went to 2 pages from the last and there is some photos of the car with the engine sat in etc.
He's pretty much achieved it! Fair play!

Quite right graeme. Problem for me is that the wheels stick out far too much, I bet it's wider than long. which will make for interesting handling!

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

i would have put it in a clubby to keep the mini proportions, and modified a mini floor pan, imo that is a mini body on a sierra cosworth chassis nothing else...

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1/2 a sierra cosworth chassis

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On 6th Aug, 2010 Asphalt said:
1/2 a sierra cosworth chassis

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Ive been following that build for a while now. Fair play to him to try something soo different and just plain crazy! lol

It'll be interesting to see how he'll cover those wheels.

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

looks a fantastic project, though looks a little like one of the vehicles that you could use on water

brilliant!

Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM

If it where me, I wouldn't have used the sierra floor plan. Fair enough he needs the suspension pick ups and the engine mounts etc, but I think the bits in between could have been replaced with something more custom and a lot lighter and nicer to look at.

good skills for having a go though

waste of a cosworth imo,there's a bloke who has built a real nice one full custom suspension on the front real nice thing,il fin some pics

someone has nearly finished there one. its amazing. i thought it was this one in question as i didnt go on the link.

here the linke to the build of the good one

http://passionford.com/forum/restorations-...s-cosworth.html

That's pretty cool...and mental !!!


I think 4wd would have been much wiser though !!

9.85 @ 145mph
202mph standing mile
speed didn't kill me, but taxation probably will

There was a cosworth powered mini at Brirish Aerospace Hatfield way back in 1991. That was in a clubman. I saw this car it was black and just looked normal except for the Cosworth alloys.

Edited by Mr Joshua on 7th Aug, 2010.

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yer im all over that project. actually mental! not really a mini though more of a mini shell over a chopped cossy chassis lol

I haven't read it in detail but the photos towards the end show a lot of thought and effort.

The Cossie doesn't have a chassis as such, it's a monocoque with a simple rear "subframe" (actually a single large tube) holding the rear suspension mounts for the trailing arms and the diff mountings and a front alloy crossmember holding the lower front suspension and the steering rack and engine mounts.

All other load bearing points (front tierods/antiroll bar, rear gearbox mount and suspension turrets are direct to the shell.

I expect the width is down to use of the 4X4 drive train, the front driveshafts are very short anyway (owing to the front diff being one side of the sump and an extension shaft through the sump to a support bearing the other side taking up most of the width) so he's probably kept mostly standard components (I haven't read the thread in absolute detail so may be wrong there...) but all in all, I think it is a superb project.

Re. the "why waste a good Cossie" post... there are more of them available in bits than on the road now - partly due to the Chavs or thieves crashing them and partly down to rust, they are 20 years old now and it shows.....

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???