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[thelegg]

Every thing will have spring washers and/or nylock nuts when finished and all the bolts in my grandads work shop are high tensile :) it's not something I've looked into mainly because I had a lightened flywheel on my 1340 once and it was the worst thing ever made it juddery at low revs n all sorts :/ wouldn't mind being a passenger in one with lightened flywheel and one without just to see tho

[lawrence]

Then I look forward to the result.

Hmm I agree mine does judder somewhat at low revs, but blipping the throttle is like a motorbike! :)

[thelegg]

Mine done it more at night with the lights on, just driving at 30mph you'd have to drop into 2nd gear everytime else it would judder you to death haha

[Shingler4596]

That's mine. Simple design really but it will do

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[fuzzy-hair-man]

At the risk of beating a dead horse I'd echo what the others said, if you do want to do it that way use the micra engine mounts. I've just replaced the 3 landrover mounts I originally had because they had split from me playing round with positioning so I think your back mount will split or be effectively solid mounted as you have it now.
Here's a pic of another option :
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[thelegg]

As already stated I'm going to try it and see if it fails then I will change to something different, I may even just finish my frame so I can remove it from the jig then change the mount as it will be easier to work on then

Edited by thelegg, 04 December 2015 - 04:48 PM.

[Shingler4596]

Well people are only trying to help from experience but good luck.

[thelegg]

Tried to update this last night but photo bucket wasn't behaving so attempt 2 lol, roughly tacked in the bars running underneath my subframe

 

 

And then I started making my front crossbar for my subframe, it's going to be removable to make fitting and removing my manifold/exhaust easier

 

Will hopefully do abit more tomorrow

Edited by thelegg, 31 October 2017 - 02:22 PM.

[thelegg]

Finished the crossbar off and bolted it on

 

 

 

Also noticed that the box section running from the tower to the front of the subframe on the right hand side was very squewiff so I decided to chop it out and reweld it, didn't get any pics but a lot happier with it now :) didn't get anything else done as I was going out for the evening with some friends so had a tidy up ready to resume on Monday, plan to remove the tie bars and bottom arms from my other subframe still mounted to my mini so I can trial fit them to my modified frame just to make sure everything clears

Edited by thelegg, 31 October 2017 - 02:24 PM.

[thelegg]

Update :)
Started making new bolts for my bottom arms

 

 

Obviously still need to weld it together yet lol
Bolt will go through from the back and the head will be locked in place with another piece of flat metal to stop it turning and undoing its self

 

 

Still need to weld another plate the other side for the bolt to go through

 

Edited by thelegg, 31 October 2017 - 02:29 PM.

[thelegg]

Last update till after Xmas I spec
Managed to finish my bottom arm mounts apart from adding in some bracing/reinforcing later on when I seam weld the rest of my frame together, Snapped my 1/2" drill bit as well good job it was on the last hole!

 

 

Next job will be to take the engine back out so I can weld the frame together properly and add in some reinforcing bits :)

Edited by thelegg, 31 October 2017 - 02:31 PM.

[jackjewelljj]

Done any more?

[thelegg]

I took the engine out of my frame that's about it. Hopefully get the frame completely welded up on Wednesday :) took the servo and clutch master cylinder off of my mini earlier but then had to down tools as I had a band practise

[jackjewelljj]

When you say Wednesday do you mean tomorrow?

[thelegg]

Yeah today lol