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[AndrewJ530]

Let me know if you're down near faceby and i'll come and have a look at the car. It's only 15 minutes, if that, from me.

[M44K TS]

Cool, I will do, it might not be for a while though.

[AndrewJ530]

I'll be moving to hull at the end of august so if it is before then, just give me a pm on here.

[M44K TS]

Will do dude

[JackM]

I love it, that's a great project mate!!!

[M44K TS]

Cheers dude

[M44K TS]

Today's insignificant parcels...

Correct bolts for the interior door opening handles, currently self tappers rammed in


Accelerator pedal rubber, currently/originally didn't have one


Clutch and brake pedal rubbers


Window winder caps that cover the screws, I've lost mine and it spoils the look of the doors


New black silicone HT leads as my current ones are a bit shabby


Not very interesting I know, but it's a few small niggly things ticked off the list.

[mighty mini jack]

Love the detail you're going into on this build, nice work.

[M44K TS]

Cheers Jack, I like everything to be right, hence the OCD for all the small parts I've been buying

[Bean]

Best way to be, Mark - That's what makes it all look SO brilliant!

I've probably said this before, but I'm soooo glad you chose the wide slate MK1 grille - Black minis just look SO gorgeous with them!

And ... I'm absolutely in love with your interior, but absolutely gutted at the same time!!! (PM incoming, lol)

[M44K TS]

Yeah I love the look of the new grille, but, I'll keep the wavy slat one because I like the look of it when there's no spotlights on the car.

Interior wise though..... ..........

[bamby]

cant remeber if you siad something about your steering wheel?

anyway found this place might be of use for you

http://www.southlake...e5ccbff946ede64

[M44K TS]

Ahh, cool, I'll bookmark it and keep an eye out, I like genuine goodies

[M44K TS]

Went over this afternoon to get a few of the little jobs ticked off the list, when I'd parked the car up in the garage a couple of weeks ago, I connected the battery charger as normal to the junction box on the inner wing that's fed from the starter solenoid, I just clip the + lead to the terminal for the J/B and the - to the engine earth strap, the charger is on a timer plug to give the battery an hours charge in the morning and an hour in the evening every day like I usually do so whenever I go over to use the car, I know the battery will always be fully charged.

Except for today! Somehow, the main feed wire from the starter solenoid to the junction box had decided to come off the ring terminal, so the 12v wire direct to the battery was just lying loose in the engine bay, good job it didn't short out onto anything as it could have been disastrous. So first job was to crimp on a new ring terminal and double check the other engine bay terminations. Also, the battery was completely flat, so popped it on charge whilst I worked on the car.

First job was to replace the bolts in the door opening handles and window winders for the correct ones, 2 second job, as was fitting the screw covers on the window winders. It's ridiculous how long that's been bugging me!

Next up, replace the broken engine temperature gauge, so, dash out again. The new speaker pods have made getting the dash out so much easier as the bolts holding it in are now accessible, as before I'd have to dismantle most of the speaker pods just to get at them. With the clocks out, replaced the broken gauge and then had a thought whilst looking at the back of the dash. There was an unused led in the dash which on an MPI, (which is what my dash is out of) is for the immobiliser, (I think!) I remembered about the choke cable having a spade terminal on it...

Choke in

Choke out


(Excuse the dodgey Iphone pics, I forgot to pick up the SD car for my Ixus!)
So connect a 2 way socket to the LED wires..


So now, choke in

Choke out


I fed the power from an ignition live behind the dash, the the earth wire connects onto the choke cable.

Next up, pedal rubbers,

Old & New


And fitted


Next up, new HT leads, made no noticeable difference to how the car runs, despite the old set having quite a bit of corrosion on the dizzy cap end, but aesthetically, no end of difference as the originals were badly cracked and looked a mess



And finally, the new carpet mats



After that, decided to take the car for a run and to get some fuel, from cold, it runs alright, bit lumpy at idle thanks to the 266 cam but that's to be expected, however, under load, it ran pretty rough and on 3 cyl, so pulled over and realised I hadn't clicked no3 HT lead on properly, d'oh!

If the weathers good tomorrow, I'm off out for a trip over Hartside Pass which should be fun.

[M44K TS]

I'm now thinking about going down the megajolt route with the car, I like the idea of getting the absolute best out of the engine and I've always thought a distributor was a bit of a crude setup. So I'm off out to the scrappy with a mate to measure some intercoolers for his 2.3 turbo Volvo 360 project we're busy with, so might have a look for the EDIS 4 module.