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[cptkirk]

This may well be my favourite mini.... ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quite a statement, thanks...

[MiNi_BoRe]

read through this a lil while ago and thought it was awesome...!! Picked up miniworld the other day and was like "why do i recognise that mini?" now i no...!! Awesome job mate! Congrats in making the cover of the mag!! You must be well chuffed!

[cptkirk]

read through this a lil while ago and thought it was awesome...!! Picked up miniworld the other day and was like "why do i recognise that mini?" now i no...!! Awesome job mate! Congrats in making the cover of the mag!! You must be well chuffed!

Yep I am proper stoked that I made it onto the cover and thanks for the compliment, makes it all worth while when you know others appreciate what you've done.

[cptkirk]

I got my new bearings in my supercharger snout, I went in the end for regular deep ball but the C3 version which have greater tolerances to allow for expansion caused by heat, if I get the problem again I will swap it out for a different type of bearing.

So a mate of mine (Jim Bright - thanks mate) did the pressing of the bearings and used the old outer race of the snout bearing to press the new bearing in, he had split the old outer race to do this and found that the inner race had a fault which you can see below. Looks like there was a fault in the original casting before machining.

Another thing that I think will help is once the charger is back together - rest it on the pulley for a day or two to make sure that the oil makes its way to the outer snout bearing to ensure it gets good lubrication from the off.

So here's what we found:

[cptkirk]

TB-SC MANIFOLD PRODUCTION - 01

We (myself and Stevie G) made a start on the TB-SC Manifold over the weekend. It is slow work and will prove quite challenging as we get to the more tricky geometry but we are pretty confident that we can get something that resembles my drawing.

I have produced sectional drawings every 2mm through the manifold to give us the required geometry, so we have ended up with 4x A1 sheets of drawings, admittedly one of the sheets is the outer dimension but three are purely sectional at 1:1 scale so we can measure off them if we need extra dimensions. We started at the SC side of the manifold and are primarily concentrating our efforts on the centrral tunnel as this is the worst bit. We started with a block measuring 169x111x111 and we will end up with a part measuring 142x110x110

I dont have a great amount to show but here are a few snaps of what we have been up to:

[cptkirk]

Charger Rebuild 01


In preparation of rebuilding the charger and getting it back on the car, last night saw me making new gaskets for the charger and manifold, no its not shredded wheat box it is proper gasket sheet purchased off the bay - there are five new ones, can you spot them all?:



































Unsure if the new manifold is going to be ready in time for Marham, gutted if it isnt, as those extra few ponies could well have helped with my top speed attempt........

[cptkirk]

TB-SC MANIFOLD PRODUCTION - 02

We made some more progress last night with this, the first couple of pictures show where we had removed a lot of material to allow us to use a boring tool to open it up to a round shape as seen in the later photos. We now need to work out how to get in and get more of the material out, we are currently looking at small fly cutters and dovetail cutters. It is slow work but we are getting there......

[cptkirk]

by the way this is what I am aiming for, apologies for the quality, however I cant give all my secrets away:

[cptkirk]

So as to show where I have come from to where I am going I have put together a drawing showing sections of the original inlet as supplied by Jackson Racing and the new straighter flowing design I have put together.

In the drawing below the New version is on the left and the old on the right, you can see that not only is it straighter in the section but when viewed from above it is also a straighter shot to the charger entrance:

[Custom_Minis]

Congrats on the feature!!
looks sweet................

Les

[cptkirk]

Congrats on the feature!!
looks sweet................

Les

Thanks mate.

[cptkirk]

TB-SC MANIFOLD PRODUCTION - 03

Last saw a bit more work to the manifold, we made one slight boo boo but we can recover that by boring the entrance hole some more once we get nearer to completion.

It might not seem like uch but it tokk us a couple of hours to get to where we are now:

[lourens]

This is one epic build man congratz!!!

[cptkirk]

As of last night the car is now up and running again, minus the whirring/grating supercharger bearing - it now sits and purrs.......

All I have to do tonight is put the seats back in, belts back on, rear windows in then take it for a its first drive of 2011 - I am soooooooo looking forward to it.....I want to go home right now and finish it.........

I might look at getting the video camera mounted and see what the footage is like - no promises.....

Edited by cptkirk, 24 March 2011 - 02:12 PM.

[cptkirk]

I forgot to say above that the mods are not on the car, still working at it, hoping to get that lot sorted in April some time.

Edited by cptkirk, 24 March 2011 - 02:23 PM.