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[JetBLICK]

cheers, had to make some because the flip front brackets get in the way of normal ones.

[samwell]

do you know if the flip front brackets colide with coilover brackets? sorry to drag you back to your least fave topic about your car. Did you just modify normal brakets to fit or make completey new ones?

[JetBLICK]

soz, dont have coily's so dunno, i made em from sratch. I tried modifying some, but it wernt happening

Edited by JetBLICK, 23 January 2008 - 11:20 PM.

[alexcrosse]

thought weber boxes HAVE to be welded in? Time for a proper manifold? JOKE! lol. Looks mint man, have you taken it round the block yet then? clutch work? What you doin about running it in? not worried about takin it up to 8thou on the roller and glazin all of the cylinders?

[Pie]

Fire hazard?! PAH!!! your cars made of metal dan, not papier mache

To be fair mate its all wiring behind and that went up nice wen a certain jew connected the timing light up and earthed the +ve coil terminal PMSL

LMAO JewBLICK

Looks really nice mate. Does this mean youll be giving Craig lifts to shows now not the other way around? lol

[alexcrosse]

ive never set fire to the electrics behind my dash *scrolls eyes* well, definatly not twice... *runs away*

[retroracer1380]

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Does this mean youll be giving Craig lifts to shows now not the other way around? lol
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Think its fallen on my shoulders pie lol, im givin dan and CHRIS, oops i mean Craig (ul get it wen u read this months mini mag Malvern show report) a lift on sunday!

[The Matt]

thought weber boxes HAVE to be welded in?

Nah, if you think about it, you're taking a cicular blanking plate out of there and putting a cuboidish shaped blanking box back in so technically it doesn't HAVE to be welded in. It's probably safer/better to have a hermetically sealed box there in an ideal world though.

EDIT: Anyway, good to see you sorted it so quickly Dan, well done for turning a problem round in good speed!

[JetBLICK]

I never got round to starting her last nite, because it was 9.30, and i didnt want to *yellow human water* off the neigbours.



However..... it started today , first time too! The clutch works properly now too, so i went for a little joyride to the top of my road

Thats the good news, the bad news is the RR/MOT didnt have time to do ther today, and the RR guys not in tomorrow, so it wont be going to bingly It's now booked for next friday. I could have got her mot'd somewhere else, but the main issue really is setting up the carb, i'm hoping it'll sail-ish, through its mot. At the moment, its idling lovely, you have to dial in about 2500rpm to move (i live on a bit of a hill tho), but it starts spluttering and wont really go any higher than 5000rpm but between 2500 and 5000 is well exciting And the gearbox all works lovely, and the drops whine nicely, not too loud... not too quiet

As matt said, the weber boxes dont have to be welded, i see a lot of people rivet them in. I used srews tho, because i've realised that hole there was quite convinient for messing behind the dash, so i wanted it to be easily removeable. I actually had a little.... er... 'discussion' with the guy about the hole, my argument being that original centre speedo minis had a hole there without the plate (hense why they're always rusty), he rekoned they had the plate there tho. Baaa

As for running it in, it'll get a little bit of running in on the rollers, and on the journey to said rollers... thats bout it. Obviously i'm not got go tearing out the MOT station bouncing it off the limmiter at every gearchange. But i ent gonna fa**y about, you stand more chance of glazing the pistons if you run it in too slowly than if you boot it all the time...apparantly. I'm sure Malcom (the RR guy) will advise. They know their stuff there, they're involved with all sorts of racing types, in the workshop they got a historic racing MG, a mini and something else, they got a mad spaceframed beetle thing, a tvr, a few autograssers and some other stuff i never saw that was in the trailers. They do all the race prep for customers, they do pit crew at some events, and they got a few of their own cars. So its alllllll good

Cheers for the comments

Dan

Edited by JetBLICK, 24 January 2008 - 06:59 PM.

[Pie]

Obviously i'm not got go tearing out the MOT station bouncing it off the limmiter at every gearchange.

Saving that for nights in worcester are we dan

You sorted the brakes now?? Can you actually stop? lol

[mad4mins]

well done dude! you got the tens on?

still coming to bingley thou? (without mini) .... sorry now support car this year..

[JetBLICK]

tens wont be on till i got new arches... GB's look cack on posepacks, as me an craig found out when we put them on his

brakes still aint great, but think i'm gettin somewhere. Managed to squeeze a bit more air outa them, but to be honest, i got bored, and i'm nackard so i retired early today.

will be seein ya at bingly yea mate, goin with oli tho, so wont be there long probs

[Pie]

Oli will be there probably 20mins max lol

[alexcrosse]

you stand more chance of glazing the pistons if you run it in too slowly than if you boot it all the time...apparantly.

nah, thats wrong. lol. Southam said to me 500 miles at 3500rpm and 500 and 4000 with oil changes every 500 miles.

bill said 3500 rpm for 1000 miles

the old man said he did every one of his engines with 1000miles well under 4000.

See what the guy sayes tho! itll be interesting to no, lotsa people say different things.

Expecting a video soon

[mini93]

theres a link about explainin exactly why runnin in HARD works better, because just smoothly rubbin past the hone marks does wear the rings correctly into the shape of the bore or somthing like that i believe