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[maurais]

wow its amazing what your doing hopefully one day i can have a crazy project like this too!! cant wait to see the finished product ill be keeping my eye on this one, well done chap!

maurais

[kmol468]

Well theres no turning back now, decided the fabricating was alittle out of my league, so today it was picked up for the work to commence.

Will put up some pictures when I get some!

[Mr.tross]

cracking idea mate, a friend of mine surgested doing a mini once iv completted my 4x4 cossworth nova project but i guess you beat me to it
best of luck with it any advice just ask

[kmol468]

Went down to the workshop today and took a couple of photos, needless to say despite all the cutting there were still signs of rust!

Excuse the camera phone quality...









and the heart thats going in her....

[kmol468]

Hi all just alittle update, as i have taken some more pictures before the main fabrication work starts:

The plan is to stick with the cosworth width, although dependant on what comes from the meeting with the suspension set-up man as i might go double wishbone suspension all round, we will see.
Although i do plan on running 9*13" alloys, revolution minators to be exact, but they havent arrived yet..
The arches i will be approaching zcars about as i think i will need some 9" wide ones to cover the wheels, apart from that everything else will be standard looking.

cosworth pictures:






The sills have been braced as this is where the mini sill will measure up to. The round tube in the middle will act as a slider, so once cut in half width ways, thats the distance the floor will shrink by length ways (front to back). if that makes sense!
I did have a go at removing the sound deadening but didnt get far. All sound deadening will be removed along with all excess brackets or bits of metal. Weight isnt a fast cars friend.




Mini pictures:







That sound deadenings got to come off! The weight of that will definately slow the car down!




The vertical inner sill plate is what will be used to mount the floor to




Boot floor ready for the rear diff


Theres surely enough space to mount a YB turbo lump in there


A tad rusty...


More sound deadening that will be removed.... who needs it anyway when the exhaust is going to exit either through the bonnet or out of the wing.


Oh and some more goodies i have picked up along the way
R888's the widest but smallest they do.. 225/45 * 13s


Floor mounted bias pedal box with hydraulic clutch


Group a headgasket ready for around 380bhp!


Oh and a fuel pump good enough for the job! motorsport 044 pump


Let us know what you all think...

[langers]

Just read your thread all the way through, fair play to you, takes alot of determination to go at a project like this, yes its a shame to break up a cossie, but at least its gonna be going on to bigger and better things!

Good luck with it all, I'll be looking forward to reading the updates,

Regards,

Nick

Oh- and as you mentioned, you have gotta get anti-lag, my mate has it on his Evo, and its worth it just for the noise and the flames out the exhaust, let alone the power gains

[1275 SPRITE]

Just read your thread all the way through, fair play to you, takes alot of determination to go at a project like this, yes its a shame to break up a cossie, but at least its gonna be going on to bigger and better things!

Good luck with it all, I'll be looking forward to reading the updates,

Regards,

Nick

Oh- and as you mentioned, you have gotta get anti-lag, my mate has it on his Evo, and its worth it just for the noise and the flames out the exhaust, let alone the power gains

Good progress, getting close now

What Evo has your mate got? My brother has got an 8

[danny2009]

cant wait to see this finished its going to be a beast, good luck with the rest of the build

[kmol468]

My new wheels have arrived - hooray



and to show you the width of them ....



I wasnt thinking of getting anti lag as you need a maram shaft in the turbo which costs the best part of £600 second hand, then you have to have a half decent down pipe to take the added heat. Without these you run the risk of something breaking.

However I was thinking of Launch Control, which will allow me to build boost when stationary with it in gear and the clutch in. Hopefully this will allow for all the pops and bangs on the occasions i need it without all the added cost as mentioned above. Oh yeah and it will get me off the line like theres no tomorrow.

[langers]

Do you know what sort of power figures you are going to be looking at once finished?

[Pitcrew6464]

yummy

[captainjack15]

Very nice mate!!

Those wheels are UBER wide!!

And when you come to finishing it PLEASE don't put COSWORTH on the back of it...

[kmol468]

I am looking for around 350bhp with the current injectors, but I'm tempted to change the injectors and go for around 380bhp, although I don't know if it's worth the extra hassle.

As for the cosworth badge, trust me, it would never go back on. Although I have saved my 'mini 850' badge to put back on the mini. Hopefully to confuse people as they see me whizz past them!

[Alex_B]

wow are those wheels that wide or have you found a really small mug hehe but impressive project good luck

[Simples]

Gonna have to come look at this at some point