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[harry_orridge]

Nice build, can I also have the details of this guy please, wiring is the only thing holding my build up now :)

Harry

[johny:)]

Nice build, can I also have the details of this guy please, wiring is the only thing holding my build up now :)

Harry

will pm you it now

[johny:)]

pedal box came today only orderd it tuesday nite so was fast delivery only thing is it is realy narrow my one foot takes up two pedals thats not good so what i will do is shop it in half and move it over so there is a bigger gap between the brake and cluch its going to be realy hard to set up the inside of the car up as these pedals will be on the floor rather than a normal mini so i need a seat mounted before i can go much further unless i chop it into three piecess and turn it upside down so it will be like a normal pedal box its all complocated but i will have to work some thing out

[Kam]

How comes you got floor mounted ones? And whos pedal box is this?

[Sleepy Stu]

Ive been looked at floor mounted options but like you have been worried about getting the seat far enough back! Let us know how you get on!

[johny:)]

How comes you got floor mounted ones? And whos pedal box is this?

Hi kam i thout of a floor mounted pedal box because using the mini tec kit the floof had to be raised up for the steering collom and because of that the mini pedals wont go down all the way with out hitting that 1st my next post will revile all what i did with it

[johny:)]

Ive been looked at floor mounted options but like you have been worried about getting the seat far enough back! Let us know how you get on!

I have choped mine up now and fliped it upside down i wouldnt get it to work on the floor as it was half way across the floor pan so there was no way i could use it comfortably but allot of my problem is im 6ft and the mini is small lol

[johny:)]

So abit of progress on the mini this week i have finaly solved my pedal box problems so as you all now i bort a floor mounted pedal box as soon as i got it near the car it was obvious it was not goint to work as theres just not enough floor pan for my legs and the pedal box. Also the pedals where to close together my feet where tuching both pedals so i came up with the grate idea of choping up my brand new pedal box wots the worst that can happen so i started off by marking it all up and extracting the cluch part of it away

so at this point i hade to make a first chop then when i did that i had to stick with my plan no going back so i choped it up any way

Pedal box choped in two pieces it soon started to look like it would work ok so i has happy at this point i mounted the cluch pedal back on but as the pedals where floor mouted they sit vertical wich is no problem if it was mounted to the floor but im not mounting it to the floor so quick thinking solved the problem off to the drill and i soon fixed it

This is the pedal before

I just drilled the hole further away and problem solved

the pedal now has abit of an angel to it wich is good for how i want it the cylinder is now fliped upside down to what it would have been and the pedal is on backwords to how it would have been. Then i tacked a lenth of inch bar to the pedal and and i did the same with the brake pedal i also choped the throttle of it as well

So I worked out how far apart i needed them to be and tacked the cluch and the brakes together againe this is how it looked

to me it was starting to look good so hear is a pick of it in the car but not mounted
Another good idea with the throttle leav it as it is and mount it to the floor happy days i not got the pedal box mounted to the car i will upload some more piks later of the rest of it but i now have a working cluch and i will sort the brakes out soon so its allcuming together now the only little problem is the pedals are about 4 /5 inches further back than normal mini pedals but all i will do is mount the seat abit further back need some seats first tho

[KieranB]

good effort having the balls to cut that pedal box up, i certainly wouldnt have. builds looking good

Edited by KieranB, 16 June 2012 - 06:56 PM.

[johny:)]

thanks kieran i had to have the balls to chop it or it would never be done it all works now tho i evan have a cluch all tho it is very hard

[KieranB]

to be fair the mini one wasnt all that pleasant when sat in traffic. im still in planning for brakes etc and was thinking of using a pedal box, i take it this means you can get rid of the servo and master cylinder in the engine bay? i want to get rid of the servo cus im using the honda dizzy plus got plans for the induction cone to be near the bulkhead......

[johny:)]

Yea no cylinders in the engine bay i had that problem with the servo hiting the dizzy thats why im happy with them in the car will be hard to fill the resivors tho but i should manage it . it also makes the engine bay look allot cleaner wen its all painted

No the mini cluch is realy hard in traffic as well im used to hard cluches never been lucky enough to have a nice soft cluch lol it should be good for raceing tho :)

[johny:)]

Rite a quick update is needed i think. Been kicking my heels latley not nowing where to go next so i started off by makeing a few brackets so i made one up for the radiator and one for the throttle linkage as i didnt have one
This is one of my radiator i used the old one so my nice new one dont get and damage during mock up

I took that to work and hade it powder coated in the week looks lovely now its not welded up in the pick by the way so thats one job done just need to chop the water pipes fo fit after i get my new radiator modefied
Another job i did was i fitter a new cluch to my engine as the one in it was dead and didnt fit my gear box

This is the new cluch and the old one you can see the difference strate away its only a stage 1 cluch but my engine isnt realy upgraded and it has hardly no weight to pull and way
New cluch fitted it evan came with a nice hona lining up tool happy days the thing with the old cluch was this engine would of had a cable box and i have a hydrolic box and the spline shafts are different trust honda so i had to get a new one and cluches ant cheap nearly had a fit when i was looking for one the stage 6 cluches are stuped money so i took the cheap way out with a stage 1 lol
So then i moved onto the exhaust wasnt looking forword to this but was all good in the end

This is my link pipe to fit from the honda manifold to the mini back box had to cut the end of my new manifold and change it to one like on the pick as i couldnt find one to mach any where
All welded up so should be leek proof next pick is from underneath it fits lovely better than my old mini exhaust to be honest lol

The front of the enhaust is low but yet againe the hole engien is low to the floor on this car must just be because its a big engine in a small car but with the coilovers fully raised its only 4 inches off the ground thats the subframe not the sump

and the mini bumper fits heigher than that so it will have to be lower to make the car look rite so as the garage needed a clean as well pushed the car out and i had to take a few piks as it looked so cool
next step is paint the engine bay put every thing together tight as most things have been on loose because i have been takeing them on and off them hopefully have the loom done and she will be running :) and one last pick of the pedal box all mounted up

[KieranB]

The pics of the car outside looks awesome,

its getting there bud, stick at it

[johny:)]

thanks kieran cant wate to get some arches on it and slam it to the floor will look mean then