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[danny1]

this is my massive rust probllem which i need sorting :/

i really dont know how to tackle it


on anouther note this arrived for me


little brother thought id bought him a midget for some reason lol





instead my new bumpers and underriders arrived

[stevericho]

regarding webers on 998's, i had one prior to changing to the new engine and it ran pretty well, awesome compared to standard baby su. it was 998 + 20 thou, and only had extractors with no other work done. used the weber as had one laying around and didnt have twin su's to compare but it easily went to the 100mph on the speedo (160 kmh here in Oz) and would rev to about 5500 rpm, not amazing i know but it was a 1977 998 engine after all.

cheers

by the way, those bumpers look really nice, only just found them on the web the other day, very tempting

Edited by stevericho, 01 September 2011 - 11:51 AM.

[danny1]

thank you, im hoping to sort these rust issues out very soon so i can gte the car resprayed and the drop the engine in

[R.S.P]

Like the bumpers Danny, How long before you drop it in and fire it up?

[MJWarren]

Were the bumpers from Arch angels?

get the engine in the car!!!!

[danny1]

Yeah they were :/

They tuck nearly 7 weeks for them to be sent and there not amazing quality there little holes in the lacquer every were

And when you try and phone them you can't get through and they don't answer emails. :/


Well I'm going home this weekend and the mini won't be coming back with me. So its go go go to get the engine in now

Although my weber are still set up totally wrong so for the first 500 miles I'm gonna run a 5 port head to run the bottom end in and then I'll get my rolling road to set the 7port head up and sort my webers out

[danny1]

right tomorrow mini goes into her little barn for repair work and engine swap work to commence,

im goign to trial fit all my carbon bumpers tomorrow, im also going to buy somt paint so i cant paint the floor of my mini get rid of all the mix match of paint that i have going on in the car, also had a few parcels arrive, so should have a busy couple of days workign on the car.


oh and in boring news just in case anyone cares, i sat on a necluor reactor today right on top of, there amazing bits of kit, but the heat it was putting out even though its be switched of for nearly 20 months was unreal.

i love being a submariner at times when you can see random stuff like that

[MiniLandy]

oh and in boring news just in case anyone cares, i sat on a necluor reactor today right on top of, there amazing bits of kit, but the heat it was putting out even though its be switched of for nearly 20 months was unreal.

Haha, cool! I take it it was from a submarine? How big was it, any photos?

[danny1]

there a bit funny about photos being taken as its national security.

but yeah it was from a submarine

best bit is im only a chef and ive sat on a reactor core getting a healthy radiation dose.

god bless the queen and evey one who sails for her

[AndyMiniMad.]

So no plans for any kids in the future then eh??....Very cool thing to do though!!. When I was working at RAF ************ they let me sit in one of the Tornado jets when it was in the hanger for repair. Took me ages to pursuade the security guys to look the other way...I was there when the jets arrived years ago to replace the ageing Buccaneers. I didnt get the security systems finnished in time and they had to put 23 Tornado's in one hanger.....It was a tight squeeze. I was not very popular for a couple of days....

Like the cabon bumpers, hope they fit ok. Looks like your pooch likes them too!!

Edit: Removed the Base name....just in case!!!

Edited by AndyMiniMad., 10 September 2011 - 10:17 AM.

[danny1]

i got the front bumpers on yesterday, were a bit of a pain, will get some pics up soon

i cant get the rear one on because i decided last night after a beer it was a good idea to start replacing the rear hinge pannel, so i chopped that out, spent the morning felting it to fit so ill weld it in next weekend,

and i decided to bit the bullet and see how much of a hole was in my roof. and i wish id no bothered its massive, and i can nearly got my hand in it :/

but ahh well.

managed to underseal half the underneath of the car and got loads of outher boring bits done like painting the fuel tanks and re doing some wirring

[AndyMiniMad.]

The roof wont be too bad...once you make up a repair patch just remember to only weld a wee bit at a time so as not to distort the shape. A bit of filler and no one will ever know you were there....But then your used to sneeking around in your sub ..lol

Edited by AndyMiniMad., 14 September 2011 - 01:40 PM.

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

did you change car before fitting the engine cant help but notice a purple clubman then become white lol
seems like you had alot of rough luck with the engine build hope it runs good now

[danny1]

nah i had that purple clubman for a while, but i decided not to fit it to that shell, ended up building it up with a running engine and 12 month mot and selling it.

im home on friday so im gonna pick up some gas and start welding and try and get it done this weekend

[danny1]

for sale section,

listed some parts i need to sell