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[Minidarren83]

So if I thought a couple of weeks back was my worst day ever today topped it!!!! I'll do a catchup first

Gave silver soldering a go and made some oil return flanges



Made the line up and fitted. I has to put a jubilee clip half way to stop it bending as it's a tight radius



Fitted all my water lines



Recovered my dash abd fitted my interior back in with new seatbelts all round







Also finished the door and painted and built it up



Along with my wheels and arches





Then today after painting I thought I would give it a first start so filled it with oil connected the battery and pulled the injector plug to crank for oil pressure and curse my life this happened

https://youtu.be/X9G-Jao7wRg

So yeah that's that ****ed crank seal or oil pump plus when I pulled the sump plug mayo came out which is great so the zr is getting the chop and becoming parts donor

This is now my garage and I want to give up

[hoody99]

Ahh we all have bad days chap don't give up everything is fixable mate look at me I squished my mini and back at it in my second one lol chin up chap 

[Minidarren83]

The decision was made to pull the engine out after looking at the state of the oil



And out it came



The next step was to rip apart my daily zr turbo for the engine





This gave me the chance to fit my PTP lightweight flywheel and a new clutch kit



Then in the mini



All fitted back up with the front end back on



And all done ready for work 28ish hours later after I started

New headlights too



Made it to work the next day never made it home





I plumbed my turbo water feeds I'm wrong but all fixed now

Edited by Minidarren83, 03 May 2016 - 02:18 AM.

[Minidarren83]

All fixed and running sort of ok I headed for a dyno day with a ford owners club i told them I have fiesta brakes so they let me go

[Minidarren83]

And now fully up to date as the weather was lovely today I gave it a good wash

[MrBounce]

216BHP.     

 

Impressive stuff 

[Minidarren83]

Small update the car was never running right it would boost all uneven and the manifold would not stop blowing

So had the manifold skimmed and works a treat



Then fitted a new genuine mac boost solenoid



Then took the car for a blast to see if that was the boosting problems sorted and it has very smooth delivery and faster than I need it to be. Then my car was so happy to be running good it did a little sex wee



My new tyres also turned up getting them fitted Monday

Edited by Minidarren83, 08 May 2016 - 09:25 PM.

[Badboytunes]

Love this build. With regards to the new tyres, i had some ( all be it on a different car) and they were quite good in the dry but utter ******* in the wet.

[Chris1992]

Car is looking great! Love the colour combo! 

 

I would be weary of those Nankangs, I've only ever heard bad things about them. For future reference, Maxxis make a set of 175/50/r13 tyres that are apparently very good, and much cheaper than Yokos. Shame that there is such little choice for tyres this size... 

[Minidarren83]

Car is looking great! Love the colour combo! 
 
I would be weary of those Nankangs, I've only ever heard bad things about them. For future reference, Maxxis make a set of 175/50/r13 tyres that are apparently very good, and much cheaper than Yokos. Shame that there is such little choice for tyres this size... 

So far apart from yokohama 048 these are the best tyres I have had they are sticky as he'll. You may be talking about general nankang tyres and I agree they are budget. But the ns2r is a track spec semi slick tyre used by teams in the mx5 cup series to name just one. As a comparison to top spec 888,s or yoko 048 they are just as good dry grip when warm better wet grip and give less road noise. I am yet to try them on track but as a road tyre with a full tread depth I am very impressed

[Chris1992]

 

Car is looking great! Love the colour combo! 
 
I would be weary of those Nankangs, I've only ever heard bad things about them. For future reference, Maxxis make a set of 175/50/r13 tyres that are apparently very good, and much cheaper than Yokos. Shame that there is such little choice for tyres this size... 

So far apart from yokohama 048 these are the best tyres I have had they are sticky as he'll. You may be talking about general nankang tyres and I agree they are budget. But the ns2r is a track spec semi slick tyre used by teams in the mx5 cup series to name just one. As a comparison to top spec 888,s or yoko 048 they are just as good dry grip when warm better wet grip and give less road noise. I am yet to try them on track but as a road tyre with a full tread depth I am very impressed

 

 

fair enough! I was just talking about Nankang in general. Didnt realise they made good stuff too! 

[jonny f]

Nankang are great! Been running them on my track car for a while.

Not as good as r888 in the wet though.

On par in the dry :)

[Minidarren83]

Nankang are great! Been running them on my track car for a while.

Not as good as r888 in the wet though.

On par in the dry :)

Last night driving home in the rain was the most fun I've had in my mini so far. The front end just stuck to the road and the back just let go it was very predictable and with the power to pull out of any trouble I just tail dragged my way home taking the long route to get as many roundabouts as I could lol

[Minidarren83]

New tyres are on and I love them and started on my rose jointed tie bars just need to cut and thread the bars

[jonny f]

Bring it to brands hatch on 1st of June? Retro cars track evening