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[Kam]

Cheers Sam, appreciated

I had a long list of people wanting to go round in it so I wish I could've done more laps, mind you, I still got 7 laps left on my card......

I feel a quick weekend trip coming up?

[ginger_monkey]

good stuff KAM glad you got there and back with minimal fuss. You still going to coombe?? I'm not taking the car on track as I still have running issues but will be there. the most I'll do is the parade lap

[Kam]

I'll be there mate, on TMF stand, its a shame your not going round as it would've been nice to see how our builds compare on track

Hope you get that ECU malarky sorted out

[ginger_monkey]

Cool I'll keep an eye out for you. Yeah I've got a load of people confused as hell on the Honda forum as to what is going on with my ecu and stuff. The line "THERE IS NO WAY A P28 CAN RUN AN MB6 CIVIC ENGINE" has come up quite a bit. I keep wanting to take people out for a drive and say, told ya so. Your gonna have to let me know when your going out on track so I can take pics.

[Burnard]

Was good to meet you today Kam.

car looks amazing, your pictures really don't do it justice.
Whens my turn to drive?


chris

[Kam]

Was good to meet you today Chris

When I said you can drive it I sort of meant I'll drive and you passenger When I took you out for a drive one of the small coolant pipes popped off, thats what I was putting back on when you lot went past, looks like its not a fan of bumps and off road territory!

All sorted after a couple of mins and the mini flew home, was a good show today

Edited by Kam, 26 September 2010 - 07:27 PM.

[Burnard]

Might teach you to bolt the rad in place

My oil is now, protecting my bonnet more than my engine
dont think mine likes 6k that much

[Kam]

Might teach you to bolt the rad in place

Whats the fun in that? I want to keep the squeaks and rattles from it, the sounds make it feel more mini!

Don't worry mate, forget your subframe at least your bonnet will now never rust

But all that might be changing soon anyway, right? I'll keep an eye out on projects.....

[twrminisport]

Thanks for the ride at the 'ring. its properly mental lol and hilarious because it looks standard.

[Burnard]

But all that might be changing soon anyway, right? I'll keep an eye out on projects.....

SHHHHH

[Kam]

Thanks for the ride at the 'ring. its properly mental lol and hilarious because it looks standard.

No worries mate was a fun lap, especially as there was three of us and I left the roof rack on

[Kam]

Well, so far I've been enjoying the car loads since its been on the road, but I think my over exuberant driving on the road may have caught up with me, don't get me wrong I'm a safe sensible driver when on the road but in this car......no its nice to spin up every now and then whilst making other cars look silly but now my clutch seems hard to engage third gear when changing down from a moderate speed, I'm guessing this is because I'm using a nut and bolt instead of the standard roll pin in the gear linkage but found this out alot more when going round castle combe lately, had to take corners in fourth! whats the fun in that???? So with Chris (Gingermonkey) in the car I took a few corners in second instead........where can you buy new tyres from? All fun!

My gearstick is very wobbly, its actually more wobbly in gear than in neutral? go figure???? I'm using a nut and bolt in the gear linkage where it hooks up to the gearbox, the roll pin is meant to be more of a nightmare to remove than on a mini so people just use the right size nut and bolt when connecting it back up. Its been getting worse but usable so did the usual thing and just forgot about it

But decided to get the actual spring clip roll pin thats meant to go in there, and got a new plastic collar all from my local honda, also got some new energy suspension gear linkage bushes from Funky Power, I was using the old tired ones which wasn't helping.......



The large round one goes in the steady bar which hooks up to the gearbox



Apart from changing the bushes I also wanted to try and 'spin' the gearstick lever around, what I mean is the standard dc2 integra shifter I bought faces this way with the kink in it....



which is great in an integra but in a mini it does touch the passenger seat slightly when going into second, if you got a passenger you need them to sit straight then! I welded on half of my old mini stick at an angle to give some clearance but still could do with some more, but really could do with this kink being the other way round......

So thought I might aswell try something for nothing whilst I'm here, first off, take it all apart



White plastic collar slides in this gaitor here around the 'ball'



Spun the gearstick around 180 degrees, its only held by the bottom bolt, make sure you got dash clearance, I'm using standard dash so no issues here (I think?) but if you got an aftermarket dash that sticks out something like a curly one then it might catch, will update on mine when its all back in



Found a possible problem??? Looking from the back the actual stick is off center, can't see in the picture but its over to one side....



which means now I've spun it the other way it may be offline to where it goes into the gearbox, but wont know by how much until its all back together, if it can't then it'll go back in the normal way, I've seen some short shifter sticks that are straight so no biggie anyway....that can wait though......

I decided to pull the clutch out and inspect to make sure all is fine, now, in a civic or crx del sol you can split and drop the transmission in-car but with the allspeed frame its just not possible, I wanted to do it all in-car to save time and hassle but took out as much as I could from around and on the gearbox



although you can lift the gearbox yourself there just aint the room to pull it from the engine and swing it out, the engine only has one mount but the gearbox has a side and rear mount so I made sure the engine was supported, so after all that and seeing as most of the ancillaries are already removed.....





it looks like the whole lot needs to come out but might aswell anyway now as its mostly out!

I was hoping to replace the clutch in-car and take a little drive to Germany the day after tomorrow as I got a long weekend off, there goes that idea now

But as usual, its all fun, right? my spirits are high, god knows why?

[1stpromotive1275gt]

But as usual, its all fun, right? my spirits are high, god knows why?
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Thats right mate, You have to smile and say its all fun. I was finding it very hard to see the fun side of only managing 2 laps before my diff housing let go! Another year to go now to combe and ive got to get mine back up to promotive so they can sort it out. Still thats what you get for having a modified mini?
Next time your able to, drive past mine as I think youll like my new toy! Being part of the clubman gang now and all that?

[Kam]

Steve - thats gutting mate, I did wonder why I didn't see you go round? My mate was taking pictures and said he got pics of yours but I spotted another black clubby with a yellow pro-mo sticker going round so not sure now who he got? Will ask....

I'm surprised you haven't gave up already after your woes with the last engine but hats off to you for sticking with it though

Will keep an eye out....but for what?

[Kam]

Decided to get back on it today, need to get the engine out and inspect the clutch as apart from not being able to get third sometimes when changing down I was getting a judder when pulling away from very low speeds so I'm suspecting oil contamination on the friction plate as all the mounts seem fine.....

Last night around 5.30 I called up Johnny at Tegiwa to order a new clutch, went for an Exedy one, I'm using a blueprint one at the moment but thought I'd try one of these now. He said I can have it today???? I said yeah ok, 8.30 this morning I get woken up by Mr Postman with a surprise present for me!



Whichever way you look at it this is mofo service! He's recommended on the Crx forums and I can see why

That put me in a seriously good mood for the day so off to the garage I went, last bit before taking the engine out was to pop out the driveshafts, the pass side is easy as there is an intermediate shaft you can take off but the driver side you only have one direction to get to the pot joint due to the frame design, a B&Q cold chisel helps!





Dammm! Seems like ages since I saw just the frame on its own!



Got the box off



The pressure plate had some marks on it, my clutch was overthrowing when it was first installed so that explained the center marks



I'm using a bolt under the clutch pedal now but was expecting this

Easy way to hold the flywheel in place so you can undo the pressure plate, string!



So after all that......no oil!



But, the release bearing came apart VERY easy whilst taking out????



This may have been caused when it was overthrowing but either way, its *******

Whilst the engine was out I thought I might aswell address the small heater hose pipe at the back



The above outlet is too long and sits wayyyy too close to the allspeed frame so during the build I chopped it down a tad, picture below is from back then







Recently this pipe had popped off as obviously there wasn't much outlet left to slide the hose over, needed to sort this out so easy solution I just shaved the lip off



Hose now slides right upto the block so more issues

Got everything back together and on the crane



After some annoying fiddling around its back on the gearbox and cam cover mounts, just got to put the rear gearbox mount in now



I'll get back on it tomorrow and will try and get it started and maybe driving aswell but will see, not sure now why it was juddering before when pulling away or why I had trouble getting third on change down, clutch friction plate is fine and not worn (only seen just under 1000 miles) and mounts are all fine, the only thing was that release bearing but can't see it being responsible for both the above, we'll see