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[asmith88]

After owning blake for 6 months ive finally started work on him!!! He is a completly standard 1982 austin mini HL. The plans are as follows

Make him start!!
Upgrade suspension
Restore brakes (upgrade at later date)
13" deep ultralites
Sportspack arches and skirts
Fiberglass flip front
Chrome brightwork
Angeleyes and jewel lights.
Respray in Black
Black classic cobra interior
Centre clock conversion
Twin dvd screens in dash
Alpine headunit, comps and 6x9's.
Sat nav built into centre console.
Maby a 1275 engine with roller tip rockers, kent cam and stage one kit (if i have any money left!)

If anyone has any of the parts that im gona need for sale let me know!

pictures to follow...

[asmith88]

This is what he looks like now...



This is what he will hopefully look like in a few months

[Down&Out]

Those wheels look interesting...

pictures?

[asmith88]

Got the carpets out and found a pretty good floor except for this bit.. New floor panel do we think??



Also found these.. Two plugs either side of the grill, wireing for spots mabey?



And what are these wires for????

[asmith88]

Those wheels look interesting...

pictures?

The wheels that are on at the minute? There just wheel trims

[Down&Out]

Oh i see, no worries then

Never seen them before, someone may have them off you, you never know.

[GraemeC]

Floor looks repairable but clean it all up and see how big the hole really is.

Wires by the grille look more like the usual headlight/side light/indictor connectors from up under the slam panel - do al the lights work correctly? What colour are the wires?

Wires by the gear stick are from the reverse sensor in the selector box, they should join to some wires towards the dash to turn on your reverse lights.

[Joloke08]

And what are these wires for????

They could be for the reverse light switch but theres also a possibility that they are for a Starter Inhibitor Switch and the car was Once Automatic

If they are joined with connectors disconnect them briefly
if the car wont start it was once Automatic
if it does start select reverse if the reverse lights wont come on they are probably the reverse light wires

I have a sneaking suspicion it was one Auto though,early autos had the starter inhibitor on the back of the gear selector not too far from where those wires are

[kitroxin]

http://www.theminifo...p;#entry1727801

[Frozo]

I have those same wires by the gear stick :/ but ive got no electrics in the car to find out also theres no ignition

Sorry to disturb the thread

[asmith88]

A far as im aware all my electrics work fine, including reverse lights, they werent connected to anything and the car starts perfectly (now ive put new plugs, leads, rotar arm and dizzy cap on it!) Should i be concerned that the gearbox has been changed, anything I should be looking for?

Anyways I got the new brakes in today so he now not only starts but stops too! also put my Gaz adjustables in too! The old ones looked about 100 years old, leaking all over the show!



Kitroxin you have a pm about that front end

Edited by asmith88, 19 February 2010 - 02:52 PM.

[asmith88]

Oh and also put this in which i got free off maccers, replaced an old wooden one which gave me splinters if i went round a corner too fast! and i also "aquired" a brand new clutch kit for free today off a guy in work who was gona chuck it out caus it was cluttering up his garage! I think im getting quite good at bargin hunting!