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[Kam]

Cheers Craig, yeah LeMans is my deadline now, I know its a few months away so we'll see how the project goes

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Awsome. Cutting though the wings must've really hurt . Il never forget our little fast lane motoring moments coming home from brooklands good times .

[captainjack15]

Looking good Kam.

Keep it up I'm with Ginger Monkey... 16v Honda Meet Although at the moment I'll be there by myself.

[Kam]

I hate snow

Anyway, back on topic......

Been waiting for a local gearbox place to re-open after xmas and then re-open after the snow..... so I can drop mine off to them and get the new 3.4 final drive put in, only took a couple of days and a couple of hundred bucks, so apart from having five usable gears now we'll see how bad the 'whine' is....

Got my new clutch and ACT lightened flywheel on, old wheel weighs 7.5kgs and this one comes in at 4kgs, which is nice



Thought I'd get some plates down in the footwell to secure the rear of the front subframe down, couldn't get any 2mm thick ones so had to buy a sheet of 1mm and double up, hopefully it should be fine.....







I cut the top plate a little bit shorter so hopefully when the guys seam weld it then both plates should bind



Picked up the gearbox after the new final drive went in and hooked it back up to the engine, what fun! I reckon a good couple hours trying to get it to align up!!! Ok that does include a 90 minute lunchbreak I gave myself



Was told the gearbox side needs to go in first to clear the allspeed frame and can sometimes be tricky, after a little think - cue health and safety moment



It held fine so no biggie









I decided to paint up the Kamcover after being inspired by ginger monkeys engine pictures Theres no front brace bar as I'm sending my clubby one back to Rob at allspeed for the standard length nose jobbie thingy one

Haven't put the rear mount in yet as this was a trial fit and just wanted to see how tight things are - DAMMM!! I knew everything was tight but this is more tighter than a lottery winner! I can see where the precious few mm come in handy!

Need to shave some more off the steering rack box and also cut off a section on the diff which I think? is not needed, I think?

As it sits now with the top bolt removed from the steering rack box



And with engine pushed back a tad



I'm sure when I put the rear mount in I'll get a better idea of how much to chop off as that will tilt the bottom of the engine a little more forward.

So glad its in there though, although there is still alot of headaches around the corner this gives me a moral boost

[minimad01]

getting there i want to do this with my doner shell once my 84 mini is done but i think ill do the k series change
good luck

[HARBER07]

Looking spot on Kam!

[mdickson]

Kam,

it is looking good. I was wondering if you are thinkg of playing with this on the track you may want to check out the sump and the position of the oil pickup as they are prone to the oild moving away from the pickup und extreme cornering. a couple of one way baffles or a modified sump would fix the problem. Let me know what you think.

Keep up the great work I can't wait to see it.

Martin.

[Kam]

Martin,

Thanks for the heads up mate, apart from the TMF nurburgring trip I'm not sure yet if I'm keeping this as a comfortable trackday toy or just a general runaround-sort-of-ish-kinda-thing?

Besides, my sump is a bit goosed anyway? Looks like the previous owner has tried 'something' with it?



Don't know if it leaks and don't really want to take a gamble so was trying to source another sump, not easy, and I don't fancy paying the £242 to Mr Honda for a new one so as I'm there then baffles may be an option?

More food for thought!

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

maybe the previous owner threaded the sump plugs so used some braze and a great bloody nut
dont seem to bad to me

[ginger_monkey]

ah beat me to it mate. My car goes off the road to start the change tomorrow. I can't wait till I have the engine and frame in the car. It'll be another milestone. Tomorrow is gonna be a long and busy day keep up the good work as I'm gonna reference your page when I get stuck

I found that fitting the engine into the frame was not as bad as people have said it to be. Did it by myself with a bit of huffing and puffing. Bloody heavy things. Kinda had it the same as you where it is tilted over gearbox end and she slid in lovely.

Edited by ginger_monkey, 19 January 2010 - 10:13 PM.

[captainjack15]

Nice on Kam!!!

Keep it up

[ginger_monkey]

Any progress matey?? What rad are you gonna use so i can steal your idea and put it mine

[Kam]

Any progress matey?? What rad are you gonna use so i can steal your idea and put it mine

Bits and bob progress, nothing worth shouting about though, I've posted on yours on the 16v one but give me a mo and I'll post it here

And rad will be custom, thats all I know so far

[captainjack15]

Keep it up mate

Progress is good no matter how big or small

As long as you reward yourself with "fun" jobs that go with the "boring" ones then it'll seem much better.

[Kam]

Ok, been one of them getting alot done but nothing looks like anythings been done kinda things, got time, got heating just seems like I'm hitting a brickwall at the moment? Loads to do though, weird?

Anyhooooooos, changed my mind and decided to cut up the bulkhead which saves me from cutting up the inlet manifold, at least this way the inlet can work as normal with no changes to the air flow, so Mr grinder came into play once more, thought its about time to change the disc aswell, was getting a bit awkward!



I know most of you know so I'll put up the next picture for those that dont, the bottom of the inlet has a mahooooooooosive lug thats not needed, it holds onto the inlet support which we dont use as it gets in the way so off it comes





Then started on the bulkhead, cleared it away as much as I could and got ready to cut up, clutch master cylinder was giving me issues so I gave it issues back!



Nice and tidy loom!









Got inlet on for trial fit, good good





You can see how much it cuts into the bottom of the bulkhead





Bought a shifter from a dc2 integra type r, need the exhaust here first before I start cutting this up, note the kink in the stick



Got my exchanged front bar from Rob at Allspeed, man that exhaust is gonna be one tight mo-fo!



And some driveshafts from him



Just need some inner CV joints now as I didnt get any driveshafts when I bought the engine, not the most easy thing to buy but got a place that can custom make up some joints if need be? Love that word, custom

Gonna make a couple of changes to this build, wont say what yet as it still in R&D stage but will still be standard length roundnose eventually, just gonna have a back-up plan so I can meet my deadline and get this mini to Le Mans 2010 just incase I start struggling near the time, I know its another 4 months away so we'll see.

Loads to do, but as John Terrys mum would say - Every little helps!