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[KieranB]

How much was it all together including delivered to you jamie?

[Jamie_hail]

I actually had it gifted to me for christmas! Which was a huge releif. However, it came to £410, delivered. Just go to the site - add £20 for postage, and 20% for Vat.

[KieranB]

oh ye **** forgot i read that on your thread. might aim to get the same deal cheers jamie

[KieranB]

Got a slight update :)

Firstly got my bulkhead box made up, it still needs welded into the car but the main structure is done and looks really good







Also started work on the gear linkage, cant do much with this ofcourse because the engine isnt in but chopped it in half and mounted one end to the car



Then got the hubs stripped down and painted, gonna get a pile of stuff from minisport soon including new wheel bearings



Plus the subframe has now been ordered from allspeed along with lower arms and tie rods so that should all be here in 3 weeks time ish.

in other news, due to the lack of things to do on the mini i have been bored silly, so i got a spare hour at work last week and made this on one of our cnc milling machines



Hopefully you will recognise this from Transformers......? Autobots??

Then took the badge off my peugeot 106, removed the lion thingy and stuck the transformers badge in its place







Anyways that is all for now, just a case of waiting for this subframe to arrive then i can get it back on its wheels again and do some proper work


Kieran

[jim190]

Good luck with the mini build, looks good so far. Love the transformers logo thing, looks good. I made a gearknob for the mini at work a couple of months back and put the mini logo on with one of our cnc mills, will put a pick up when I'm not on my phone next.
Cheers, James.

[KieranB]

thanks Jim. sounds class, ye i made a gearknob aswell although it was at the start of my training and i wasnt so confident so its crap. Ive made a few things but the badge was a highlight i think

[Captain Mini]

This will be awesome dude! Had a honda before my mini and therr so quick.. And the transformer thang is awesome haha couldnt make me a transformers sump guard could ya ;)

[KieranB]

cheers fella, i havnt driven a honda but been in several including a 250hp NA ek9 which put a lot of ideas in my head

A transformers sump guard.....thats a good idea. might have to look into it. might be better off on the EBM machine and cut it out.....

[Captain Mini]

Yea mine was a 1.4 but it was 110 bhp and it went like stink haha and well if you can knock a sumo guard out for me id be greatfull and obvs i would pay p&p and money for your time dude.. Im really envious of your honda convert :/ haha

[KieranB]

Sorry for the lack of updates peeps, awaiting parts.

I'm like a little kid the week before xmas. should be getting some allspeed goodies and metro brake setup this week so should get it rolling again next weekend!

[KieranB]

WIN!!

Subframe arrived today, lovely piece of kit

Also went to minisport today and got a good load of stuff





Fair to say i've got my work cut out getting this lot on.

Plan on getting it all mounted and on the car this weekend. Got the brakes coming soon



Kieran

[johny:)]

well done i bet you came home heart broken with the amount of money you must of spent should be well worh it tho :)

[KieranB]

yipe your not wrong there, day after pay day and im skint

[johny:)]

i now what you mean there at one point i was spending my pay apart from £30 for petrol so i can get to work by friday then be skint untill the next friday and start all over againe but you can see it come together that way

[KieranB]

At long last some proper work!!

Spent the weekend on the car, started with the hubs, needed to get the old ball joints off and get new ones on and new bearings in. although hit a snag on the last ball ball joint because this happened.....



I dont have a vice but i had that hub in a place where it wasnt budging. The cheap torque wrench was no match. was only using it because i didnt have my breaker bar. so resorted to smacking ten bells out of it with a chisel and hammer.

once the bearings were in and new ball joints were on i set about getting the new cones, hi-los and top arms on. quite a mission seeing as i dont have a cone compressor.



also got some new bump stops in. then got the subframe mounted on the car, top bolts first



then cut out some peace-of-mind-plates for the two bolts through the floor. Had to make do with some old shelving i had at the back of the garage so please excuse the odd colour



then bolted the hubs on



was hoping to get it back on its wheels by putting the old cv joints through and bolting my old flanges on but hit a problem



The one on the right wouldnt fit through the hub. anyone ever seen that before?

So ended up placing the wheels on the hubs to make me feel better





So just got to wait for another cv joint from r1minimagic and my brakes from matt off TMF and it'll be back on 4 wheels by next weekend

Kieran