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[cookie4343]

Update time yet mate, loveing what your doing to it, it's gonna fly with that engine you have, i might be round your unit soon to see what progress you have made on the beast.

[roofless]

well, brief update.......

metal work is progresing, we have about half the parts we need to set up the front subframe, but the biggest development is a change in running gear.
we're going red-top.
turbo.

got this c20let to pick up in the next couple of days, and we raped a phat nova of its c20xe and a few other bits last week.

its going to be noisy.

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[roofless]

new shiny bits - managed to finally locate our recommended rather exotic turbo-charger, ITI VF34 off jap spec WRX. Its been suggested this will give us plenty of good progressive grunt from 3000-3500 rpm, and is rated for 280 - 325 BHP so our target of 300 BHP is looking good.

engine will be stripped down next week and head is off for a check-over and re-valve, and hopefully we can start bolting it all back together again. We got ARP's sorted for most areas, and the remainder should all be sorted this week.

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

YOU should so stick a big chavy halfords filter on it HAHAHAHAHA init brappp

[roofless]

YOU should so stick a big chavy halfords filter on it HAHAHAHAHA init brappp

have you got any?

keep em.

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

lol althought i may have once had a chavtastic ripspeed filter i left it on the si when i scrapped it

you doing owt more to the promotive ?? reverse maybe

[roofless]

lol althought i may have once had a chavtastic ripspeed filter i left it on the si when i scrapped it

you doing owt more to the promotive ?? reverse maybe

the reverse option is there, we were considering it, but after IMM I'm reassured we dont really need it - two times we got stuck, but people just drop everything to help, and they think its hilarious
plus the 1000 quid it would take has just gone on the turbo for shaggy

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

lol u find it amusing people think im a chav hahahah soooo wrong lol

[roofless]

lol u find it amusing people think im a chav hahahah soooo wrong lol

I dont think your a chav - just a mine of useless information. to be honest I havent seen you on here for a while - did you get the whole brakes thing sorted? is it all OK now?

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

2 days after the "INCIDENT" i spent £250 on the brakes and completely overhalled the set up and supension and since then polyed all the front end so yeh alot better now

have a look on my progress thread its all there

lol my throttle was sticking so i stripped my bikes teflon coated core and thats my new throttle cable till i get the new one on tuesday

[roofless]

2 days after the "INCIDENT" i spent £250 on the brakes and completely overhalled the set up and supension and since then polyed all the front end so yeh alot better now

have a look on my progress thread its all there

lol my throttle was sticking so i stripped my bikes teflon coated core and thats my new throttle cable till i get the new one on tuesday

see - thats a stroke of near genius ( dont tell anyone, but the R1 cabriolet has a push-bike brake cable as throttle cable ) 2 years in and it still works !! and I got it from halfrauds

Edited by roofless, 22 August 2009 - 07:40 PM.

[Retro_10s]

Roofy baby, Detective inspector retro here.... - After IMM did you go to Bromsgrove Golden Cross pub? sure i saw The R1 parked up there with a group of other minis

[Shifty]

Yes, but is the cable still attached to the bike?????

See, now I've got this vision of S-F-M. with a push bike in his passengers seat using the brake to control the throttle of the mini!!

(sometimes I just make myself laff!!)

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

lol well i spent loads on all the lil bits when i built my custom push bike and i oiled the sleive with 5w50 full synth so its alot lot smoother and doesnt stick

lol

i may start fabricating my zetec frame this winter so i can then do the 2.0 zetec convo but i need to weight up pros and cons first

[roofless]

Roofy baby, Detective inspector retro here.... - After IMM did you go to Bromsgrove Golden Cross pub? sure i saw The R1 parked up there with a group of other minis

ermmm - may have, you know I dont like beer, but I may have given a lift to few people