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[Jammy]

Nice to meet you at Bingley today. Hope you got whatever you went there for (if indeed you were after something!).

[adyzr1]

yeah nice to meet you too! always nice to put a face to a name

[adyzr1]

sounds like my mini!! ha ha

click the link below,then download but you've got to listen to it to the end- very british!


renult f1 warm up- british engineers

Edited by adyzr1, 28 January 2007 - 11:54 PM.

[Red Staff]

Hi guys I am new here, I have never owned a mini and never really built anything like this by myself but I am finding this forum brilliant, I wish I could do something like this I wish I had the money too, Ady your dads car looks mint you got any better pics and what is the spec of the car what model was th mini he used for the project.

Before I started reading all this a couple of days ago if somebody would of said to me they had a motorbike engine in there mini I would of thought they was talking a load of s**t, to be honest it is still all a bit of a foreign language to me, I mean what do you do, buy a mini cut it up by a frame from Z-cars and stick a big bike engine in !! looks a lot harder than it sounds.

[adyzr1]

its quite easy really, just take one stage at a time!

[Renessy]

"It's a small step for man and a big step for mankind......."

For many it's just a money problem....... Save and you'll get there....... The build itself goes like Ady says.....

"I have a dream"

Vtec in the back!

René

[Red Staff]

In the risk of sounding like a complete muppet I have a question, for those of you that fir bike engines into your mini`s how do you reverse your car ? also how much would I be looking at needing if I wanted to fit a bike engine into a mini ?

[koss]

Red staff you need to visit the z-cars site and see the vids

[Red Staff]

Will do mate cheers, Sorry for being such a noob !!!!

Which part should I look at ?

Edited by Red Staff, 04 February 2007 - 10:09 PM.

[adyzr1]

wahey, im back, some more progress!!

been in the garage all weekend, woohoo!

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Edited by adyzr1, 18 February 2007 - 10:30 PM.

[adyzr1]

This is my dash , its a one off from curley, he made it especially for an etb digidash,
well , what can i say -it was quite difficult to fit , i had to scribe it all in to fit (im a carpenter for a living so thought it would be easy!! )
Then when refitting the roll frame couldnt get it back in and had to shove the hole dash through the windsreen opening so the bracket at the top of the rear subframe would fit back in!
The masking tape was for scribing/stop scatches, i used a dremmel for trimming.

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Edited by adyzr1, 18 February 2007 - 10:42 PM.

[adyzr1]

The finished job, im very pleased with it
i used fairing bolts from my local motor bike shop for fixing it in.

link to dremel
once you've used a dremel you cant manage without one!

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Edited by adyzr1, 18 February 2007 - 10:50 PM.

[markrally]

Fait play that dash is gorgeous as i like the fact it is unique and it will complement the Digidash perfectly.
Just be careful and dont scratch it!!!!

Cheers

Ps i wouldnt like the price tag of curley though!!! :'(

[adyzr1]

the price wasnt to bad , really was cheaper than you might think, as i brought a few items so did me a really good deal.

by the way your car looks great!

[adyzr1]

more piccys (fairing bolts)

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