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[68Deluxe]

You could make a bracket each side to triangulate down to the front subframe bolts. That'd help I reckon. 

Coming a long a treat. 

[Mk2Brett]

Got new tyres and wheel alignment done today. It was super sketchy on the 100m drive down the road to the workshop, car was crosseyed the alignment was so bad from my front end upgrades.

 

Alignment went perfect and it now drives great.

 

Took it for its maiden drive up to Mount Panorama 

 

Lots more work to do, but its great knowing it can be back on the road now at least!

 

Little lap around Mt Panorama Bathurst

 

https://youtu.be/bE8...eL9UmAHDJR5d5S7

 

[timmy850]

Are you going to the Rylstone classic this year? Or even just the Sunday - lots of minis going from Rylstone to Bathurst for a few laps

[Mk2Brett]

Are you going to the Rylstone classic this year? Or even just the Sunday - lots of minis going from Rylstone to Bathurst for a few laps

 

Yeah thats the plan, hoping we make it to Rylestone!

[Mk2Brett]

I took the Mini to an exhaust shop to get an O2 sensor adapter welded into the exhaust. When it got up on the hoist, it was leaking fuel from the metal fuel pipe, it had a tiny pin hole that was leaking fuel at pretty decent rate.

 

I ended up cutting that section of pipe out, and patching it with some 1/4" fuel host and clamps to get it home. Once home I replaced the front to back rusted fuel pipe with some new rubber fuel hose

 

 

 

Makes me feel a lot better now that all the old metal lines (brakes + fuel) have now been replaced.

 

Since I had to switch back to the old rocker cover, added an ST sticker

 

 

Fit the boot liner in and now it looks great

 

 

As a side project, Since I used new radius arms on this Mini, I started refurbing the old ones to have as spares. They were covered in a rubberized under coating that needed an hour of grinding and wire wheeling to clean off

 

Will strip the rest of the rust off and then prime and rebuild them for spares.

 

For the rest of the week will be doing final preps to try and get to car to Rylestone