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[Rocket.]

This is going to be awesome

[l_jonez]

It's going to be damn tight

[lawrence]

Looks awesome mate :) you planning corsa Pistons with no skim to lower the compression like I want to do? And what turbo did you decide to use? :)

[l_jonez]

I'll probably go down the corsa route but maybe a skim but a dished piston, haven't really decided yet.

It's a GT17, apparently they are good on the 1275 A series and the Micra engine is the same bore & stroke so it should work well.

[DomCr250]

I seem to remember these being advertised with coilover spaxes on the back when new ...These were real quality kits, much better made than the mini marcos's they were sort of based on.

 

It will fly with the Micra lump in it.

[l_jonez]

Yep the more I've stripped it the more I am impressed with the design.

I'm not going crazy with the engine but I guess 140-150bhp will be the final result, which should be plenty fast enough

[l_jonez]

I have started to make the exhaust manifold



That's pretty much as much as I can do without the flanges.

[l_jonez]

Pretty much finished the electonic speedo code. Just need to get it mounted in the clocks. Although I'm thinking of changing to oled rather than LCD screens
 

 

 

Managed to get an hour out the garage today so I stripped down the rear radius arms, nothing special to report other than the pins and bushes seem to be new :) one worrying thing was both hub nuts where finger tight ( a strong breeze could have undone them) at first I thought they have just been nipped up to get the wheels on etc to push the car around but both had split pins in :-S

A bit of paint and the arms can go back together, although new wheel cylinders and shoes will be required as this is what I found when I took the drums off



I'll probably take the opportunity to fit some minifins at the same time.

Edited by l_jonez, 20 December 2015 - 09:29 PM.

[l_jonez]

Had a little bit of time in the garage today. Decided to start cleaning up the rear arms.

The Midas uses Coilovers so there is no need for the knuckle joint cup and surrounding casting, so off it came.


Then things escalated and I ended up getting the flap disk out


Hopefully mini spares will have a January sale and I can get all the required parts to build it all back up.

[l_jonez]

Well the exhaust flanges turned up today



So its ready for welding up


Turns out I'm my own worse enemy, I rubbed down some dodgy looking stone chip on the rear floor with the intention of fixing it



Then hours later I've decided that it all needs to come off :-(

[Atchi]

Hi,

 

You might want to weld from inside where you have flange nuts.

 

Log style manifold works quite well so I'm keen to find out what Micra enige can take with std internals.

 

Cheers

Atchi

[l_jonez]

Yep I'll be doing that, its all tacked together now

[DomCr250]

Hi,
 
You might want to weld from inside where you have flange nuts.
 
Log style manifold works quite well so I'm keen to find out what Micra enige can take with std internals.
 
Cheers
Atchi

Atchi ... Shouldn't you be looking at G13b threads? Dom

[Atchi]

I know buy I have help Dave who is making his cars with Micra engines....

 

I'm still working on my Mini!

[l_jonez]

Completely forgot to update this thread...

Work came to a halt on the manifold as I've decided to buy a Tig welder


The floor has been cleaned up and so far one half has been stone chipped, the other half will be done tomorrow...



Also Ive bought a small vw intercooler, which will be located behind an unused air duct



Decided that there wasn't enough surface area so I cut out the duct.