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[carthorse]

Great read geezer - welding newbie to fabrication guru in 53 pages. Very inspiring, really makes me want to dust off my welder and learn to do it properly!

[hoody99]

Pics of how you done it chap as it sound simple ???

[Minidarren83]

Great read geezer - welding newbie to fabrication guru in 53 pages. Very inspiring, really makes me want to dust off my welder and learn to do it properly!

Cheers mate a welder and an imagination is all you need

[Minidarren83]

Pics of how you done it chap as it sound simple ???

You can see the front of the mounting ring here it's just bolted to the light pods in the shaped hole o cut



And the back this is where it's too big for standard mini fitment

[Minidarren83]

Spent the last few days trying to get some lights on the dash and get the fuel pump priming but I missed and earth and then Today's aim getting g the car to run

K series mini first start:

Missed an earth and it started instantly although it runs away with itself a little I think the throttle sensor needs calibration

[DannyTip]

Must be awesome when it starts for the first time.  Is it spraying water everywhere in the video?

Edited by DannyTip, 08 May 2015 - 03:39 PM.

[Minidarren83]

Must be awesome when it starts for the first time.  Is it spraying water everywhere in the video?

I'm glad it ran even with no exhaust it was still exiting. It was fibreglass dust from where I installed my headlamps last week

[Minidarren83]

Still plugging away

After giving up on my fuel tank I got a 044 pump and mounted it in the boot along with the filter to tidy up the bulkhead



Finished off the exhaust







Fitted some sound deadening to the bulkhead and made a bracket for the expansion bottle and fitted it and plumbed in the rest of the cooling system I've just looped the heater for now leaving it out



Fitted a boot release cable





Rear brakes all done





And finished off the gear linkage and fitted



Front brakes and wiring the wiper motor and washer bottle left then tidy the inside

[Minidarren83]

Front brake lines sorted

[Minidarren83]

Got a few more bits done

Made a blanking plate for the heater air intake and fitted washer bottle and Brake master






Then took it for a little drive no videos of driving but got one of it running up to temp

K mini series running: https://youtu.be/362DLPoAXQw

Then disaster struck

[Ben_O]

sorry, what was the disaster Darren?

[Minidarren83]

sorry, what was the disaster Darren?

Water was coming out from the spark plugs!!

[Ben_O]

is that headgasket then?

[Carlos W]

is that headgasket then?

More likely a cracked head

[Minidarren83]

It would seem to be standing water from when I jet washed the engine down I'm going to run it tomorrow and let it get to fan cut in temp and see what happens