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[liam-ds]

Love the build thread, great read..Good luck with your lessons and hope you pass your test soon.

thanks . the driving lesson are going pretty well it handy being able to have a lesson then come home and go out in the mini with my dad and practice what i covered in the lesson i prefer driving the mini to my instructors car a new vw polo

liam

[Daviewonder]

Wow just read through from the begining, awesome project! Wish I had your talent when I was 16

[drewsargent1980]

Love the build thread, great read..Good luck with your lessons and hope you pass your test soon.

thanks . the driving lesson are going pretty well it handy being able to have a lesson then come home and go out in the mini with my dad and practice what i covered in the lesson i prefer driving the mini to my instructors car a new vw polo

liam

I prefer driving my mini to any other car i have ever owed, including my Alfa, getting withdrawal symptons at the moment now thou as its been 5 months since i last drove it, hopefully only another 4 weeks to go.

[liam-ds]

Wow just read through from the begining, awesome project! Wish I had your talent when I was 16

thanks it all been possible because of a lot of help and teaching form my dad I'm definitely going to do another in the future i enjoyed it so much and its a great feeling having a car like this when all my friends are buying corsa's and saxo's and paying mad insurance.

Love the build thread, great read..Good luck with your lessons and hope you pass your test soon.

thanks . the driving lesson are going pretty well it handy being able to have a lesson then come home and go out in the mini with my dad and practice what i covered in the lesson i prefer driving the mini to my instructors car a new vw polo

liam

I prefer driving my mini to any other car i have ever owed, including my Alfa, getting withdrawal symptons at the moment now thou as its been 5 months since i last drove it, hopefully only another 4 weeks to go.

i agree going to have to park this up for just under a month soon as I'm going on holiday and will be too busy to get out in the car going to feel bad shunning it to the back of the garage . good luck with the new one

[liam-ds]

hi all had a little tinker with the car today been plastic coating a few little parts for under the engine going to have to order some more stuff as my dad bought yellow for a job he was doing and most of the bolt on parts on the engine are black on mine and look good tried a yellow alternator bracket and it didn't look right so i'm going to order a bag of black anyway here's some pics of what me and my dad have been up to

very bright dipstick



coil bracket not 100% happy with this



how i left the engine bay



the car as she looks now no real changes on the outside



thanks for reading Liam

[liam-ds]

ordered some black coating so ill have another update later in the week

Liam

[liam-ds]

hi all received the black coating earlier so had a little play this afternoon its harder to do the black coating than the yellow as any imperfections show up really bad had a few parts that went wrong ill show you pics but tomorrow in going to have a go at making a fluidized bed to help me get a even finish on all the parts i will be coating although the pieces i took more time with have turned out great anyway here's the pics

first the part i'm not happy with ill heat them up and peal off the coating tomorrow



the good alternator bracket sorry for pic quality



radiator bracket i'm going to redo this tomorrow as i'm not happy with it



another dipstick the yellow one is in the boot now i can change whenever i feel like it haha



coil mounting bracket coated i'm going to do another coil strap i found earlier i'm black as well tomorrow



bonnet striker plate this is the best of all the pieces i have done today probably because i spent most time on it as it is the only one i have got



sorry for the pic quality will update again tomorrow with better pics and hopefully more coated parts thanks for looking Liam

Edited by liam-ds, 30 July 2011 - 07:52 PM.

[liam-ds]

hi all got a bit of a update plastic coated a few more bits before i went on holiday didn't get time to post up. while i was on holiday i got reading the bible the carbration section really caught my eye so i thought ill give that a go so yesterday o started to strip a spare HS4 i had in the garage, i slimmed down the throttle shaft to 0.170 of a inch or there about chamfered the piston edges off took the dremel to the carb elbow and replaced the wax stat with 3p if only everything could be as cheap to sort out . i finished off the carb earlier and fitted it to the car took it out for a run and it made a huge difference was running a little rich to start off with changed the needle took it out again still felt good but was even worse, i managed to gas out the garage by just parking in front of it . so i left it for today ill have another tinker tomorrow. OH and i thought the head gasket had blown as well as it was leaking water out the area that the coil bracket mounts in the end it was the head nut wasn't tight enough form when i plastic coated the bracket . anyway here's a few pics of coating and carb

plastic coated





looks better than rusted ends



vizard carb

stripped



shaft before (if pic is not too blured)



rebuilt can see how one half of the shaft looks now



carb elbow ported minght just be able to see the piston edge is chamfered



all other pics are too blured dont know why thanks for looking any opinions welcome Liam

[liam-ds]

hi all been busy on the car today with Stanford hall coming up quickly and before i went on holiday i decided to pop two big bubbles on the front panel that car looked a real mess so today i stripped the front panel down and started to sand off the paint and find out what caused it to bubble in the first place, it looks like the the zinc primer i used to stop the rust when we first fitted the front end anyway it will hopefully be primered tomorrow and painted pretty soon . I also modified the air filter box to vizard spec and did something that i thought was a little cheesy you will see in the pics haha

here's the pics

my air box (read the top )



hehe



looking a little sad





all opinions welcome Liam

[R.S.P]

Looking good mate who did you do the airbox?

[liam-ds]

Looking good mate who did you do the airbox?

sorry read it wrong i did it my self drilled it with a 3/4 hole saw filed the edges round and then sanded it and stamped the top with some things my dad had in the garage there used to stamp chasis plates dont know if you can still get them now haha

Liam

Edited by liam-ds, 25 August 2011 - 08:06 PM.

[MiniLandy]

If you're going to the hassle of Vizardizing it, then at least stick a K&N filter element in there...

Looks good though.

[liam-ds]

If you're going to the hassle of Vizardizing it, then at least stick a K&N filter element in there...

Looks good though.

iam going to just not at the moment as the car is off the road for a few days for a bit of paint work but ill be getting one either form p&l or from Stanford hall mini show, thanks Liam

[liam-ds]

hi all been busy again i re did the lid of the air box as the stamping was not straight so sanded it all flat and painted the raised box silver not 100% sure if i like it ill keep a look out for a cheap air box and re do it to how it was before. i also stamped VIZARD on the dash pot my dad said it was sad . today i have also traced down why the paint keeps peeling off the front subframe i had a leaking front brake pipe was a to get to but after a few turns it stopped, it also leaked when rebuilding the car in the same place so that pipe union must not bee too brilliant but ill keep a
eye on it. i have also been plastic coating a few brackets and a few bits i wasn't too happy with during this i learnt a lesson don't put red hot metal into the coating powder it sets on fire not good .

anyway here's a few pics of what ive been up to

air box lid redone





before plastic coating





and plastic coated





all opinions welcome Liam

Edited by liam-ds, 26 August 2011 - 07:01 PM.

[liam-ds]

hi all little update got the car into the to garage today got it mostly masked up will be primering the front end tomorrow
i think the grille may have helped cause this to start in the first place as there was too funny marks and the paint has bubbled off what looks like out wards form these two spots

here's how the front panel looks now





Liam