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[lucas1amps]

well student loan due on the 7th woop woop! right i found a set of webers off a lotus cortina so happy days and possibly some off cuts of 6mm sheet! plus the other mini ive built is now nearlly done just need to MOT and deliver it! then full steam a head hope everyone had a happy new year also got some red buckets and red LUKE harnesses. heres some pics of the other mini thats been taking all my time, bit of welding and a full DIY respray

[lucas1amps]

small up date got given a rover K series exhaust manifold yesterday what will be spot on but slight catch... its of a 1.8 so therefore it has a 40mm bore rather than the 25mm of the engine so a smaller manifold is needed off a 1.4 also got a set of twin 40's coming now and a 6 point cage love student loans!

Edited by lucas1amps, 09 January 2013 - 02:37 PM.

[l_jonez]

A new manifold is a must the original micra is so restrictive

i went for the k series aswell, they pop up new on ebay now and then. mine was £17 brand new and £20-odd for a new downpipe.

[lucas1amps]

Webers have arrived! i just thought though got to go from the 25mm size head to a 40mm sized carb so ethier im going to have grind the inlet ports out as big as possible or make a tapered manifold any ideas guys? also decided on using DTA ignition systems so looking good so far full steam ahead!

[l_jonez]

think you'll need a combination of the two, i opened my ports up a bit but the gasket face gets a bit small





how you making the manifold ?

[lucas1amps]

going to make it out of alloy tubing and get some micra flanges and weber flanges CNC machined and well it all togther

[lucas1amps]

big up date time funny old day
so i got a medium sized double garage and was feed you have large bits lying around so i installed my six point cage i bought and i kept tripping over the sub frame and got feed up of constantly dumping the bonnet and front end outside so i drill holes in the front end and attached it to the car via cable ties (temporarily of course) then i decided to fit my sub frame then decided why not dump the engine in see where we are at, then the KAD what is perfect just clears the top of the rocker cover nice. with the engine in the car made a few observations

1. its F***ing tight
2. the gear linkage is perfect out the bottom
3. front cross member will need modifying to fit the exhaust
4.room for webers is a lot better than i thought! only minor parts of the fire way have to be cut out il weld in a two joined together battery boxes

there's a few other bits and pieces to think about to need to sort out my engine mounts and make my manifolds but very pleased with progress so far

[lucas1amps]

webers are being blasted then will be rebuilt new chokes neededs springs etc cant wait! january college report due next week urh...............

[lucas1amps]

will go on its roof on the weekend will be nice to get the rear subframe in aswell if i can may chuck the spare front one i have in get it rolling while i modify and strengthen the micra one! once finished grind all the welds down cap the ends and get it power coated

[lucas1amps]

started welding up the boot cant wait to get the webers back from the blasters just bought rebuild kits for them over half term going to go down the fabricators and see if they can make me some manifolds want this engine running March target is to get the car finished for london to brighton i dont care what it looks like i just want to be there so look out for it everyone proberly the ropey mini shoved behind my tent ha ha !

[l_jonez]

cant wait to hear it running on webers :) its one of the best feelings when they first fire up.

Edited by l_jonez, 30 January 2013 - 10:11 PM.

[rids]

how you liking the 1.3 mr jones?

[l_jonez]

how you liking the 1.3 mr jones?

Not much difference but I haven't passed 3.5k rpm yet

[dean]

Do you not want box in your bulkhead so you can get some decent filters on the webers. Or even some sort of ram air

[lucas1amps]

the webers ere only placed there for refferance the plan is to cut away the bulk head and weld in a box i refuse to run no airfilters after reading mr vizzards book on the A series engine scary amount of grit can go though in such a short space of time! so il run K&N's and where the fresh air vents are i want to run pipeing from them behind the dash and feed it into the air box what will be inclosed webers spittinng fuel and flames on the back of a wooden dash no thanks!