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[1340_cluby_estate]

 Image007.jpg   39.64K   10 downloadsHello peeps thought Id put some pics on here of my cluby estate. My wife brought It for me last january for my birthday It was an mot failier 1972 1100cc cluby estate.

When i brought Dave the mini he had been painted in black hamerite paint by hand he looked a mess but as i have later found out it was hiding alot of corrosion.When i got him back to work I started to look around him and found 4 bits of welding n/s floor to sill, o/s floor to sill o/s front inner arch and o/s rear inner arch.

He came with spax adjustables and heavy duty tie rods and he sat on a sorry looking set of minilites he has crome door handles and window winders, drop bracket and 12" steering wheel. A new set of red carpets mk1 estate rear leather seat 2 piece head lineing go faster crome rocker cover and angle eyes.

I had an old 1275gt which was to bad to do anything with so I nabbed the 1275 mg a+ engine out of it a set of mini fins that i found behind the wheels. Fast and very racey was the plan, this had to happen and the L2B ticket was paied for so would it be done in time?

I went digging about on ebay and found a set of omega +60s with 6cc dish, had been raced for a month. I then trusted the rest of the parts to come from mini sport which was the biggest mistake of the build. A kent 296 scatter cam kit with double valve springs, new oil pump, big ends and mains which they decided to send +10s instead of stds, centr oil pickup centre main strap and a lightend duplex chain kit. This took 2 months for them to sort and deliver after countless arguments and calls and emails. I then decided to use mini spares for my needle spring and new omega rings these were delived within 2 days and right the first time.

I sent the block off to an old boss of mine at the machine shop I used to work in. where the block was over bored +60 and 10 thou taken off the face to get a good mate with head, the head had 30 thou taken off as it hadnt been skimed before. i then opened the ports up and smoothed them out, matched the inlet to the head and the lcb.

The build went well it had a shiny copper headgasket and i took the time to find a ballbearing for the oil presure relief valve.I then got a couple of mates together to give me a lift with the engines on the exchange.

By this time it was 3 weeks to L2B I had a 4 month old son taking most of my time up so I called upon my dad who is a welder and fabricator to help make the plates up and between us we welded up him ready for mot. I called in all my many favors to get a load of friends silly enough to sand off hamerite and the body work began. After about a week we found the true shape of Dave who had filler here and there but didnt look to bad so I justgrey primed him so Icould go L2b in 1 colour.I was given a set of wellers with new 175s on for more grip looks more radical aswell.

He past his mot got the tax disc and away we went a week of running a round found the centre speedo that I had fitted to be miles out upon fitting the road angle 70 mph was actually 102 mph ow dear. I had a teething fault with a split brake pipe but other than that it was fine. Me and my friend paul who has a tuned 1000 went to my work for some last minute tweeks then saturday was upon us. We left peterborough me and just_jack in the estate and paul and his son in his 1000, got to sawtry about 5 miles from home before first adjustments were needed, the engine was pinking under load when the temp was at half so a little tweek and we were away.We made it with only the oil presure gauge giving us a fright as it packed up whilst under full throttle over taking. We used £90 of fuel.

I had many problems getting the engine to stop pinking so I went back to basics turned engine to tdc no1 no mark on pully so tdc no3 and 40 btdc the mark came round, it had the wrong pully on it. I marked a new tdc mark on it and timed the engine up set the co.Upon test drive I noticed that the car had alot more power and I now cant stop it from spinning in 3rd under full throttle.

3 weeks ago I re started the body work big mistake the wings are had it, so my friend gave me a 2 piece flip front which I have fitted leaving the inner wings in and bolting the wings and front pannel to them. the doord are repairable same as the rear doors the rear quaters are looking a bit sorry, but my dad has fabricated a plate that I will be welding in soon, I also resprayed th roof in crazy boy blue which is a blue with light metalic look, looks nice.

This is my project to date I will keep updating as I go along hopefully some of You will see it at L2B next year.

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[Jordie]

Nice estate.

Im sure ive seen that garage photo'd in someone elses project thread recently too.

[Bungle]

try and use photobucket for your pictures as tmf only lets you put a few up before you have to start deleting them

if you delete them your project topic wont make sense for some one reading it at a later date

[Tomf]

Nice estate.

Im sure ive seen that garage photo'd in someone elses project thread recently too.

Yea i think your right, i think it was the thread about an engine that turned out to be a 998 or something like that, but i might be wrong.

[1340_cluby_estate]

You have prop seen it on 1 of just_jacks threads as he works at the same garage as me, hes got a little green mini called steve with a black steel flip front

[1340_cluby_estate]

Haven't been having much luck with dave the mini over the last few weeks. I started to get a misfire 2 weeks ago, I put a new fuel pump on as the old 1 was ticking like mad. This didnt cure it so I put dizzy cap, rotor arm and new leads on, this still didnt cure it. I started to get very annoyed with it, so I then put a new coil on it, yay that was the cure and it went better than it ever has. I now may well have a new problem, playing silly boy last night and showing the boy racers how its done I did a 200 yard burnout, Then some guy in an mr2 thought he could blow me away so i showed him and think Ive done the bigends or little ends I have a knock under light acceleration

Edited by 1340_cluby_estate, 02 February 2008 - 08:01 PM.

[1340_cluby_estate]

What a relief, after testing oil pressure and the fact there were no shiny bits in my clean oil I called upon a friend who has been building minis since before I was born, we took dave for a blast and decided that the noise isnt engine, but the drop gears rattling. I take back all the nasty things I said about poor dave the mini and now I can concerntrate on the body work and paint

[1340_cluby_estate]

1340 estate is no more. I sold it the other day and replaced it with a nice lil 1000. I did keep the engine and box and have now found out the idle drop gear bearing was the knocking, I think im gonna build a half cabrio or a shorty as the new mini is for the misses. This lil mini came lowered with 165 tyres minilites 1.5 negy camber arms and honda crx or preloud seats and rear trimed to match. Teething probs already tho fuel pump started leaking so that had to be fixed then carb float needle woud not seat so lost about a tenner of fuel but it ok

Edited by 1340_cluby_estate, 18 March 2008 - 12:01 AM.