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[Asphalt]

Couldn't justify to cut up the white door, as it's RUST FREE.
So it has to serve as a temporary fix 'till I get the repair panels for the original door.

Edited by Asphalt, 01 June 2011 - 10:20 AM.

[MiniLandy]

Sweet. If it were me, I'd just keep driving it like that. Buuuut i'd refit the wingmirror.

Rather than buying repair panels, just buy a new door skin, then use the non rusty bits of the old door skin to repair the frame.

[Asphalt]

Sweet. If it were me, I'd just keep driving it like that. Buuuut i'd refit the wingmirror.

Rather than buying repair panels, just buy a new door skin, then use the non rusty bits of the old door skin to repair the frame.

I have to, at least as a temporary measure.

I CAN'T replace the whole door skin! as this would mean I'd loose the 27 year old pin stripe... Which is an absolute NO-GO. Hadrian does bottom repair sections, they'r too cheap to start bashing your own panels

Made it a bit more boy-racer-ish



And to make the noise suit the boy-racer-door, I made this:

[tedmcedd]

hehee! looks good! i like the door! needs more stickers though

[Asphalt]

I'll just leave this here...

PI5pk257sUE

Surpsrising to her that, behind the wheel I mostly hear the engine, not so much the exhaust. Cool!

Notso cool: compression on cylinder 2 & 3 is down by at least 3 bar. That means off with the head and pray it's only the head gasket. Oil down the bores doesn't improve things, so I have approprite hope it'S not the rings. Spark plaugs are rusty, though... I hope there was no water in the cylinders during the winter break... /

Cheers,
Jan

[crazycoleman118]

ergh just listening to that makes me want to take mine out of stasis and go for a blast!!

[MiniLandy]

Sounds sweeeeet! They always sound better from the outside, sadly don't get to hear it enough

[liirge]

Does sound nice, I love how raspy the mini sounds

[Asphalt]

However, we have a problem with that engine...

Before mentioned rusty & green spark plugs:



Almost gone head gasket...



And water damage in the bores....



Looks like coolant was burned and ran down the bores when the engine stood for a while (or was switched of when hot)... This has scored the bores and probably taken out the piston rings. Why the gasket let got - I can olny guess it's a ignition related problem, as I had pinging every now and then but never got rond to retard the timing a bit.

Anyway - engine's back together, has one bar more compression with a new gasket and needs to last for little while, as I can't swap engines right now - the Merc has top priority as it needs to move to another place (which it can't right now as I chopped away too much metal ).

Back up engine is in the cellar - I'll assemble that slowly and then swapp it over.

The engine will probably last a little longer, as the damage is obviously not new at all.

Cheers,
Jan

[crazycoleman118]

Shame about the damage! how badly is it scored?

[Asphalt]

Shame about the damage! how badly is it scored?

Pretty badly... Cylinders 2 & 3 are down to 1 bar compression, but I think that's the gasket gone once more... But, and that's the alarming bit - cylinder 1 & 4 are down to 7 & 8 bar.

Engines's out and a hot-ish 998 being build at the moment...

- 1275 cam (Metro)
- 1275 head
- 998 A+ short block
- 3,76 diff
- the usuall stage 1 stuff

And best of all, it doesn't need pockets so will bolt straight on.









So basically I build a complete tuned 998 power unit out of left overs. And whilst that get's destroyed, I'm building a new version of the knackered 1275 Also found some perfect gears for the GT close ratio box. So I'm going to build that as well

[MiniLandy]

...And best of all, it doesn't need pockets so will bolt straight on.

How'd you manage that??

[Asphalt]

How'd you manage that??

I didn't believe the internet blah blah and tried it... Fact: with a std. 1275cc cam no pockets are required! Neither is CR an issue. Calculated at 10.5:1 - chambers in head ccd to 22 to 22.5cc. Piston to deck clearance 0.5mm, head gasket thickness compressed 0.75mm. Bolt on, plug & play. Simple.

And goes very well. Like a std. 1275. Needs a bit more revs and lacks a bit power below 3000RPM, that's the difference to a 1275.

Edited by Asphalt, 23 September 2011 - 04:29 PM.

[carboy001]

Surely this one is well overdue an update?