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[cal844]

Looks and sounds amazing!

[Spud_133]

The Harris lot were there with there pinto'd escorts, and they're bad fast! They're running 11 second runs out of escorts! I would've thought a lot were there for classic ford the following day

[kmol468]

Yeah I did see all the Harris lot, I was envious about their wheels! I didn't get to have a ganders at their engines for too long as everyone was around them when I wandered past.
Yeah ther was alot of ford cars about, a mk3 fiesta with a cosworth 4x4 in it was next to me, with a pb of 11.5s but he was running a bigger turbo than me.... It did get me thinking though! 😉

[kmol468]

Hmmmm .... After checking on the mini after the pod session I've had some rather frustrating set backs



A rather series of elaborate events occurred which resulted in the above!

[yeti21586]

Was that a battery??

[kmol468]

Yep, that WAS the battery!

[Carlos W]

Yep, that WAS the battery!

 

Did it go bang?

[Ben_O]

what the hell?

[kmol468]

Nope, it was the first time the car had been run hard back to back and there was a weep of petrol on the lift pump gasket.

Everything was fine on the day but it was rested it for a week afterwards and petrol started to leak and fill up the boot. It started to eat into everything and was about 1cm away from arcing out the contacts on the battery and making the whole thing go boom.

Look at the fuel system, I had put the over fuel return line into the bottom of the tank rather than into the top of the tank, this the fuel couldn't return without being forced back into tank. Hence why I think the gasket started to leak as the weakest point.

Also to add to it the water injection tank leaked so it was a mixture of water and petrol.
All whole boot needs stripped and painted and put back together.

It could have been a disaster but nothing but a few hours can't fix.

[Ben_O]

[Carlos W]

You could buy a lottery ticket, but I think you've used all your luck up 

[kmol468]

I know, it was abit of a 'look of what could have happened' kinda moment.
Initially I was annoyed about it happening, but looking at the bigger picture the beast lives to fight another day - once the whole car has stopped smelling of petrol!

[cal844]

Lucky escape!!

[kmol468]

I decided to remove the turbo and get it reconditioned in time for the mini show at Santa pod.
There was a bit of play in it so it would be rude not to upgrade it at the same time!!

[MiniLandy]

A bit of play?! That's *******!