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[Mini Mad Drakeley]

I stripped apart my 998 because it was burning oil at quite a rate and spitting oil out the exhaust, thought the bottom end might have gone along with the rings and hones.

after about a 100000 miles the crank and bearings were like new with barely any wear, i don't understand how its wore so little in its 36 year life

[mk1coopers]

Got the Maniflow stage 2 LBC and RCM centre exit system on, and the rest of it put back together so I could give it a run

[MathieuGT]

Fitted a Stage One kit and took it out for little drive. Big improvement but got the wrong air filter at Brooklands yesterday

ay so having to run it with the standard one, feels a little held back so going to have a look for a 1.5 inch k&n or similar. If anyone wants a 1.75 inch cone filter... 

[BronkoMini]

Finally finished fitting my stage one kit, different from above as mine now seems to be running on three cylinders

[Mini Manannán]

Underlay! Underlay! Eebah! Eebah! 

 

 

Edited by Mini Manannán, 24 March 2014 - 07:35 AM.

[meathead]

Took off the lcb for a check....the noise made me suspect it was cracked...

 

 

 

Yup...a nasty repair and plenty of new cracks.. I need the car wednesday so there isnt really time to order a new one and wait for delivery, so i had to fire up the welder and grinder

 

 

ground off the old welds to get a proper look at the cracks.. then drill a hole at hte end off each one to stop it spreading as its welded

 

 

welded it all up and added gussets over the joins to add strength

 

 

Just got to stick it back together tomorrow... fingers crossed for decent weather 

[zuluaga63]

changed my carb from a hs4 to a hif 38 

[meathead]

got the welded up LCB back on...

made this little doohicky bracket thing to connect the bottom of the pipe tom the gearbox...

 

 

it was missing altogether when i took the thing apart yesterday, that may have led to the pipes cracking in the first place.

[jayh29]

Rolled the second coat of Rustoleum...getting there slowly.

 

[FAZ]

welded a few spots

new fuel line & spi filter setup

new brake line

greased ball joints 

 

need to reassemble it all and touch up the sills and underneath with underseal and paint, shampoo the interior, ready for longbridge on the 12th

[megamini_jb]

Went out for a random drive in it. Was gone for 2 hours lol. Then while I was out I got a text from my mate to say my wheels he's been refurbing were waiting for me so went to get them on the way home <3 <3 look awesome

Going to attempt to fit the tyres on them tomorrow

Edited by megamini_jb, 26 March 2014 - 03:40 PM.

[firstforward]

MOT and passed, pretty happy as I averaged 260 miles a week in the last 12 months.

[Mini Manannán]

More scratching of the head over the wiring    Fitted a new fuel line.

[humph]

^{Hopefully sorted my cold start issue, fingers crossed for the morning.}

[rodandtom]

Finished rubberising the rear subframe and the two front suspension struts. Then thought I would clean up the boot ready to just 'tidy it up'. De-greased it and could see daylight through holes in the boot floor. More bl***y rust!!! Now I have to replace part of the boot floor so I am going to do the battery box as well.

 

Rod

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