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[meetthespeakers]

What's the plan for the old interior, I thought it looked sweet.

 

I'm not replacing the Estate's interior, I am replacing the seats in the Trabant. I dyed the rear seat black 2 years ago, and the fronts have 80's seat covers that have splashes of green, pink, gray, etc on them. Trabant needs a fair amount of work to get it where I want it to be, but I only have a month for phase 1, and another month after that for phase 2. The Estate I just need to fix the passenger window, and tune the new hif38 I put on it. 

[love333]

Well I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to Accuair with 1/4" NPT Fittings. Before I had just a front/back setup with no tank, just compressor. So I got a 2 gallon tank coming and a single viair 275c compressor. I'm gonna use my old 7 switch box with dual needle gauges in the dash from my Old Van. The whole reason was I wanted to test my theory first, which while the air works on the Mini I was having a problem with it tipping over at lower pressures, basically anything under 75psi or so, and at that pressure it is in 4x4 mode. I imagine it was just due to load transfer. First time I pulled out the driveway at what I would consider "ride height" the car leaned to the right, and stayed there. Hoping this will alleviate that, because I don't want to drive monster truck height. I also picked up another set of 10x7 wheels to have as a spare wheel, but now I am thinking about running these on one side and painting the center black, and using the left overs as a spare....
 

Accuair with 1/4 PTC fittings.
 

7 Way switch box
 

Fun Stuff
 

 

 

Awesome thread buddy much love !

what wheels are these at the bottom ?

[meetthespeakers]

They are douglas race wheels. I still haven't mounted any tires on them because I wanted to verify their load rating. I am sure they are fine, but wanted to double check. I was gonna use them as a spare. 

[meetthespeakers]

Finally back on the road... and driving it to work again.

 

 

Finally got to install the Maniflow LCB, head fitment... great... y pipe sucked a big one, was kinda surprised. 

 

 

 

So, I decided to try out some Protechs coilovers for a bit, got to say... love them so far.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not pretty, but functional, just made a 500 mile trip with it last weekend.

 

 

Pics from the recent swap meet...

 

 

 

 

 

[SAL 821X]

This thread needs video! lots of Air Ride videos! 

 

I want to see it bounce.....

[megamini_jb]

Love the pic of you guys standing around it. shows how low it really is where the roof line comes up against you

Edited by megamini_jb, 26 September 2014 - 09:01 AM.

[meetthespeakers]

Well it's been a while... had the fuel pump go out nearly a month and a half ago. Hadn't really had time to do anything with it. But I finally pushed the Mini into the garage and started ordering some winter projects. The biggest being a SC12 supercharger. There were some other odds and ends I have been wanting to try out, so I ordered a new dash, T7 heater, new switches, a variety of different sound deadening products, a SU Electric type style pump, a Freeflow header to replace the LCB.. to name a few things.
 
Lets start with the heater, I wanted a more compact modern unit that could be multispeed. I love the space it freed up.
 

 

 
After assembly, I tapped a new hole for the wires to come out because I did not want to see them hanging down.
 

 

 

 

 

 
The start of the new switch panel
 

 
Mocking it up
 

 
The new switch panel painted in black wrinkle. The headlight switch is Off/on/on, heater switch is all the way to left and is off/hi/lo. Rest are just off/on. I think it turned out decent.
 

 

 

 

 

 
The SC12 Supercharger

[Chris1992]

 

this project just entered a whole new world of awesome!

[Jared Mk3]

 this project just entered a whole new world of awesome!

 

Agreed!

[meetthespeakers]

I am equally as excited. After dabbling with Suzuki and Honda swaps, I just didn't want to go there with the clubby this time. The 1098 just runs so great, but after having it a few years sadly I want something to shake it up and keep me interested. Honestly I wanted a little more grunt, and of course something a little different. It's gonna take some time sadly because I am working on building a new 24'-32' shop in a few weeks hopefully. And I have my hands full with the Morris Minor and getting that one back on the road. 

 

Oh I also installed this last night on the inside firewall. 3/4" thick boom mat. Made for sound insulation under hood, but I think it will work well on the firewall to keep induction down a hair.

 

Edited by meetthespeakers, 22 December 2014 - 02:30 PM.

[meetthespeakers]

I thought this was a cool picture, sadly I took it.... ohhhhh 2-3 months ago. Can't wait to take it down to the docks again in spring, maybe over the winter... SALT permitting of course.

 

 

[freaker]

in one of the pictures of the swap meet, is that a center console for an estate ? 

 

freaker

[meetthespeakers]

in one of the pictures of the swap meet, is that a center console for an estate ? 

 

freaker

 

Well, it's not for an Estate only, it was mainly designed I assume for Mini Saloons, but it works all the same. I ended up trimming about an 1.5" off the bottom to get it to sit lower on the tunnel. You can just see it in this picture:

 

[minimissions]

Some wicked looking pics there of your clubby estate does just look stunning :)

[java gt]

Love the wheels,really suit the Clubbie.