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[kcchan]

It wasnt too bad down here during the day. I would work on it today but my sisters borrowing my car and my welder and grinder is in there

[Tomf]

LOL fiar enought, although it has been raining most of the day today lol.

Well it was only spitting this morning but i got a lift up to the mini place got myself a new pump. I then got home fitted that and boleted the manifolds back in place, the i went to start putting the y-piece on and the rain started coming down hard so i quickly packed my tools away and ran in side, but this point i was dripping wet

So looks like i will be driving the punto over the weekend

Atleast now i know all i have to do is bolt the y-piece on the manifold and then re-hang the exhaust and it should pass the MOT lol.

Prety good really as its only going to cost me about £10 on top of the MOT cost to get the mini through

[Tomf]

Well the engine should be coming out this week depending if i get the time and can collect the engine... If not it will be next week, but before i put it in i plan to pocket the block DIY style lol and put a spare large valve 12g940 head on it that i have in the garage, so ill get re-furbished tomorrow, should be easy to do, but one of the heads snapped off one of the thermostat bolts, so i have to try and get the rest out.

Well over the weekend i havent really done much lol, i did some fiberglassing to the lower part of the front end where someone pushed themself up on it and cracked the corner, loesing alot of the strenght in the front, so thats back to normal now

Also i gave one of my KN mercury a quick 10 min clean up and with a bit of work they shoudl be looking good.



I also grabed one of my banded steelies from my garage to test fit to see if they would clear the fiesta calipers and i was amazed as the actually do, the reason they do it because im using a small 10mm spacer up front so gives that extra bit of clearance, theres still about 1 1/2 of the wheel over the caliper...







Well after test fitting this one i think im going to have to clean them up and run them on the mini for a bit to see what i think about them, i ont think they will suite the mini really, but ill have to give them a paint and see what i think lol.

What colour should i paint them?

Ill also give the KN's a quick clean up and run them for a bit as i have agreed to sell the starmags at the begining of next month lol.

Edited by Tomf, 08 September 2008 - 12:21 AM.

[Tomf]

Whoop whoop its now on the road for another 12 months Not bad really passed an MOT for the cost of under £10 on top of the MOT cost

[miniboo]

so do you want me to move this to non-mini engined projects?

[Tomf]

Nah not quite yet, ill send you a PM when i properly start the conversion only i get the feeling i might be held up for a bit with another project ill be getting next month

[gibba]

Whoop whoop its now on the road for another 12 months Not bad really passed an MOT for the cost of under £10 on top of the MOT cost

not bad, leaves you some money for your new project

[Tomf]

Yea got to save even more now as im buying more bits at the same time lol.

[Down&Out]

paint em like old wheels where. cream or something. after seeing you offer up yours.. i think 10x5.5 are a safe option i really love those dude

[Tomf]

paint em like old wheels where. cream or something. after seeing you offer up yours.. i think 10x5.5 are a safe option i really love those dude

The reason they stick out it because of the band of steel welded in giving the a dish and making them wider... As for colour i dont think cream would go with my car, you got any ideas that would match my mini?

[kcchan]

To be honest I reccon only either black, silver or maybe even green would go with your mini.

[Tomf]

Yea thats what i was thinking, initually i wanted to go black, but then you wouldnt be able to see the dish very well, so i though silver, but then i wasnt really sure if they would match so i thought maby green with black center caps.... Or i might just stick with my KN's lol, hard choises haha

For people that dont know im picking up a 1098 from Kcchan tonight, so ill give that a once over tomorrow or tonight if theres enough light left and then ill get that swaped over this week

[Retro_10s]

dude,.. black wheels with silver centre caps,.. you will see the dish on them becuase the centre cap will be sunk right in!

[dan_up850]

black wheels with a green outer edge/lip.......whatever its called! lol.

[wakkoboi]

yeh that ^^^^^^^^^ and green centre caps!!!!