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[marksmini]

hello mate and welcome to the home of the minis when your at home lol :grin:

[rob mini]

the 8 o'clock wake up was because of me as someone told me if i arrived after 10 i cudnt get on the stand lol

good weekend though

rob

[marksmini]

:fear:

wonder who that was

[cowboy]

ok so we managed to get mini rob, mazi, and carly from manchester mini's welcome to the site, try and see if you can get more of them to join
and a big welcome to andy white aswell
did we manage to get any one else
oh yes no more "i've got a brand new combine harvester" if more from manchester mini's join :saywhat:
:wales:

[NightfireRed Mayfair]

got a flyer when i popped over to your stand so here i am! I wonder if anyone raced against me my number was B8.

[miniman5]

Hi nightfire mayfair my dads rover is night fire red! ........ dnuo where that came from :tongue:

[Turbo Nick]

hey all, saw your stand at the showdown but didn't get a flyer because i was in the works van :sad:

Quite enjoyed gettin woken up by the wurzels though, different to the sound of an A series being ragged from cold anyway

i was over with minifinity.com next door to manchester minis.

Nick.

[Brawlyrox]

Hey Bud666 seems we are quite famous for our wurzles antics, early in the morning now. Do you have a mini?

[Turbo Nick]

yeah i have a mini, well its been living in the garage since the week before showdown. i got one of the pistons slightly warm :grin:

should be back on the road and run in for MITP hopefully, just waiting on the short engine from morspeed.

Anywhere i can chuck some pics? its a 91 cooper turbo.

Nick.

[Brawlyrox]

yeah upload em here, just press the browse button then choose ur file, the mini sounds good, are you going on the minifinity stand at MITP?

[Turbo Nick]

nuts! just realised i gotta pay for me advance ticket! but yeah i'll be on the minifinity stand if all goes well with the engine rebuild.

Loads of pics at http://photobucket.c.....6/mini turbo/
and http://community.web...er/91minicooper and a load of old pics at http://community.web.../user/bud666_99

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[Brawlyrox]

thats 1 sweet car, what sorta power u running?

Dont spose u know of any turbo engines going do you?

[Turbo Nick]

it was standard, only had it running for 6 weeks before i melted a piston due to not visiting a rolling road.

i've got an intercooler to put on the next one though, straight cut drops, centre pick up, N/A MG cam, hopefully around 8.5:1 CR so i should be able to up the boost a bit, not too much though because its still going to have the standard head and box for now. i'll be happy with anything over 100bhp though just as long as its nice and smooth.

The engines are getting hard to get hold of now. i wouldn't use an MG turbo lump again anyway because they've all been ragged. Just get hold of the turbo setup (carb/turbo/dizzy etc) and stick it on a low comp 1275 lump. best thing to go for would be an old granny's metro thats never been over 2k rpm :wink:

Nick.

[Brawlyrox]

Thanks for the advice :grin:

I spose you will be gandering over the turbo section a bit, and i like your fuelling layout, looks good.

[Turbo Nick]

hehe, i wish those were my diagrams. they're from a chap called jukka, he sent them me to show me how to run the fuel return without having to modify the fuel tank.