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#1 Tonylamb

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Posted 15 January 2018 - 08:16 AM

Hi, everyone, I've decided to go for a mini as my third car restoration. The wife is delighted..... NOT. Although she approves of the car. I've purchased a 1980 10inch wheels mini 1000 HL. Its a bare shell with just the suspension brakes and wiring loom in place. Its been very nicely painted in, Sage Green with an Old English White roof. Looks great. Plan is to make it look as classic as possible. Move dials to centre position, change rear lights to MK2 etc. I have a 1380 engine to go in it with fast road cam. Nothing too silly but driveable at lower revs. Probably going for twin SU's and a big bore exhaust. No interior so that has to be done from scratch and no glass either. Currently I'm working on finding out what all the terminals on the loom attach to. I think its a MK 4 loom but they all seem pretty standard. Looking forward to chatting and benefiting from all your experience.

#2 Northernpower

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Posted 15 January 2018 - 08:46 AM

Welcome to the forum. Nice colour. One of the best bits of advice I can give you is to subscribe to the forum and become a TMF + member. It only costs £5 and one of the benefits is you'll be able to get discounts from our supporting suppliers including 7.5% at MiniSpares. More importantly, It also supports the forum as well.

#3 FlyingScot

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Posted 15 January 2018 - 10:25 AM

Welcome to TMF. Like the colour and the 10s very nice

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#4 Tonylamb

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Posted 24 March 2018 - 09:31 PM

Thought some folks might like to see my progress. Ive pretty much finished all the wiring and the speedo is now in the centre. Ive added some additional dials, who doesnt like an extra smiths dial. Im just waiting for the housing so that I can mount the rev counter. Then I can fit the dash covers and the air vents etc. Here is a picture.

#5 Tonylamb

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Posted 24 March 2018 - 09:38 PM

Ive also just fitted the electric fuel pump that Im going to use. Need to change the fuel pipe attachments etc but thats nearly done. I need to work out where to run the wiring.

#6 sonikk4

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Posted 24 March 2018 - 09:43 PM

No pictures as of yet!! What are you using for your pictures???



#7 Tonylamb

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Posted 24 March 2018 - 09:44 PM

Whoops pics didnt attach for some reason,try again.

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#8 Tonylamb

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Posted 24 March 2018 - 09:50 PM

The car is so clean in all departments its easy to work on something that is like brand new!!!

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#9 italianjobb

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Posted 01 April 2018 - 12:48 PM

No no no keep the mk1 lights man !




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