Posted 15 March 2006 - 07:41 AM
New to this forum but very old to the Mini scene. Had this mini for 15 years now, it has been stuck in my lock up for the last 12 years as a unfinished project after I stuffed it getting a bit giddy with some other car.
I will try to describe it the best I can but i have no decent photos of it since it has come back from the body shop last month.
Body Tub
1964 Mini Cooper in a type 3 three shell, fully welded up with new inner and outer cills and deseamed (left gutter seam on for colour split). ERA turbo bodykit (fitted 14 years ago when ERA's were just on sale) Remote electronic doors with no handles or locks, GTE bonnet vents.
4 Cibie Super oscars on front for extra lights, Tinted windows and shiney shiney chrome everywhere.
Donkey:
Just being rebuilt, due to collect tomorrow, after catastrophic failure due to muppet building it in first place. MED semi short throw crack, tuft rided, wedged and cross drilled, AEG521 conrods, lightened, end over end balanced with powermax slipper pistons, steel centre strap. Metro turbo oil pump, duplex timing gear, 276 race rally cam, Stage 5 head with rim flow valves and cooper rockers, ultra light weight steel flywheel and peco paddle clutch, lucas vacuumless distributer, Janspeed LCB exhaust. Twin 40 delletro side draft carb on swanneck inlet manifold, fully gas flowed. A series power is what minis are all about!
Stopping and ride.
Avo fully gas adjustable suspension units with ride height suspension, twin pot calipers on front with vented discs and wide back drums, powered by direct action servo under bonnet. Quickrak steering rack. 13x7 superlite split rim alloys with 195x45x13 rubber.
Comfort
Cobra bucket seats with four point harnesses, rear roll cage. Custom build dash with full dial monitoring of engine and split charge system, electric windows, custom door cards.
ICE
Kenwood Head unit and 12 disc changer, Spectrum analyser, JBL 4 channel 1000watt amp, 2 400watt rms
JBL 10 inch subs on back shelf, JBL component speakers in doors. Full split charge system. (speakers in boxes awaiting final install next week)
The mini has just come back from the sprayshop with a £1000 spray job which looks the buisness, I had just started assembling the car when I decided to fire it up, after getting the carb balanced again the engine started with a high knock, I shut it down and got a second opinion and the mechanic said it was cammy due to kent scatterprofile cam(now in bin) changed oil and put a flush treatment through it and put 5-30 oil in it, started it revved it and bang. Engine out, stripped it down and the bottom strap from number 4 conrod had fallen off, agp bolt had been bent onto crank after hitting cam and bending that first and damaging the bottom of the barrel. Gutted, looking and not much change out of £800 for rebuild, regrind, new crank, fully balancing them up again.
The mini will be finished and on the road before the end of April, If I can get the thing insured, when you quote lists like the above the insurance companies they either get the phone book out and pick a random phone number as a insurance quote and just decline to insure it. The last quote I had they said they would not insure it because it had a roll cage in it, stunned I asked what difference that would make and they told me it meant that I may drive the car fast HELLO does the engine not tell you that much!!!!!
I will get some piccies of it on the forum when it is back together as it is just covered in protection blankets at the moment and the front is 3 inches off the floor with the drive shafts sticking out of the arches where the wheels should be. You can wake up now after reading the long post
