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Hi all,

been a member for a while , but the time has come to finally put a build post up .

any hoo so i bought the mini about a year and half a go potterd around init for a while then came mot time and only came out with 4 sheets of faliures n 2 pages of advisorys.

so today had a spare few hours so heres what i did

thats wht it looked like before bit garish but i liked it enough, so i know it had been bodged a wee bit as the loom was choped up and selotaped togehter .
so i started from the rear





took the lights out and il lshow you the quality of the wiring :(


then to the petrol tank and MY GOD

now as my pics were taken on my 2mega pixel blackberry the quailty is amazing not .. but you might be able to tell the arch has totaly coroded and they have riveted a plate to keep teh boot to the arch :o which is bad lucky i didnt have a crash .

and the boot has totaly gone they have just sprayed fibre glass every where ! heres some holes
below where the petrol tank was


oppasite side


just a quickie of the front


and a lil treat i bought for it the uther week


comment and everything welcome this is my first project so any help on how to tackle the monster would be great thank you

Edited by creading69 on 26th Oct, 2010.

Looks like a nice project there pal. Love the colour!

a good base project there :)

Yes i moved to the darkside

Instagram @jdm_brett

Time to breakout the welder. Impressed with the bodge, always amazes me what people to.
M

its as rotten as a crab in places ,..... but with determanation you will get there

make it happen!

It's a bit like mine. Looked OK on the outside, but then turned out to be a bit of a shed. I'm nearly there so you'll sort it all soon enough.

quick up date i move fast haha , thanks for the comments much appreciated . do we know anyone in leicester with a turbomini???.

anyway first tool i unleashd a diskcutter muahaha
so i wanted a flip front because of ease and less welding :) so i came to choping the front of and it turns out i only had to make a 6 inch cut each side as the inner panels had been bodged together liek so random rivets and bars coverd in tar crap liek 88% of the car
then i saw this hello back seat

the arches were filled with foam and glue and lots of it

then it looked like this


so my proposed engine 1293 now this could be totaly wrong as im not all clued up so please post suggestions or correct me if im wrong
metty t block standard uther than whats changed below and a metty t carb
rebored +20 thou,
a head of some sort not quite sure goign tospeak to turbophil :)
T2 (on its way) on a Mirage manifold
pistons with 10cc dish not sure which ones ? accralites?
Avonbar Ph2 cam or metro n/a?
vernier duplex timing gear
Ultralight flywheel
Grey diaphram
paddel clutch
SC drop gears
Fully rebuilt gearbox with X-pin diff and centre pick-up
3.1:1 final drive
Megajolt ignition if i can get my head round it

i am still picking this up and its my first build so not tooo crazy.

Edited by creading69 on 27th Oct, 2010.

sounds about right engine wise. Get your head ported etc and look at your cam options.

Accrolites come in 6, 14 and 18cc dish. Avonbar have 6cc and 18cc on offer at £299 at the moment. bargain!

good i wanted to make sure i wasnt putting incompatable stuff toghether .what cc would you recomend ??
also this came today mr garrett T2

Before you decide what cc pistons you need, you need to work out your target boost, target horse power and CR you need to safely achieve that.