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[danny1]

Cheers Danny I had a look for some plates but could not find them





Darren

heres the item code MFA338

i reckon these should to the job, they just might need a bit of felting to get them to sit flush against the webers, but with 4 of them you would be able to get and acurate vacume of the carbs

[danny1]

yes my box is ready for collection

rather excited now, gonna enjoy buildit all up now as thats all i got to do

[danny1]

yes yes yes


i have all the parts for my engine finaily just got to build it all up

gear boxs looks like the dogs danglies

but its just such a shame knowing i wont get to drive the beast till mid may :/

[danny1]

right well project officaly on hold as of tonight :/

ive got so into it these past couple of days

any way heres some pics of what i ahve and a little sneek peek at what it may look like










hope you enjoy and your comments are welcomed

[danny1]

ahh pants there not great pics ill try again tomorrow

[RobG295]

Engines looking good man!! Least with having a while to put it in you'll be sure to double cjeck everything so it all works a beaut!

[danny1]

yeah, my parents are on about moving house soon and the places they want is amazing garage bigenougth for my 2 minis and my dads landy and still room to play a small game of football

and the studio appartment is pritty cool as well

[AndyMiniMad.]

Looking good. Should there not be a couple of lock tab thingys behind the diff bolts though?? Hope the house move goes well. What would i give for a big garage!!

[danny1]

yeah ussualy there is like locking tabs but i have those locking washer thingys,

my box was built by pual inch who races in the mighty mini series
ands also a great engine builder situated in plymouth,
if theres a probllem with it ill just pop back and speak to him, but he did the same to my box that he would do to one of his race cars so i feel confident it will work


house move wont be for a while yet, but its exciting, new house is really close to newquay


i got tuns of garage space atm for the minis and parts its just all spread out which is the probllem, but this new garage were on about building at the new place is going to be wide enougth for my dads landy but long enougth for the cars to get inside and still do engine work, welding and what ever else needs doing.

and its situated up its own lane so its out of the way so dont have to worry about keeping the nabours up while im grinding away late into the night

[AndyMiniMad.]

Cool!! Paul Inch is a really good guy.. He was going to bore my block to 1380. And gave me a really good price £80. But because I live in the north of scotland the postage costs were huge. But ive got another one to get bored soon and I reckon a trip to the south coast might be fun. Oh and I really like the green engine. A good choice..

[danny1]

yeah hes really good only tuck him 3-4 days to do the work to my engine
which was

+20 over bore
new cam bearings fitted
30tho of the head for compression ratios
center machine strap
drilled for 11 stud head
dry deck addaptor to fit
and he also re tappted all the holes
and deep cleaned the whole block 3 or 4 times to get all the paint of and all the oil stains of as well

propper impressed with how quick and good the service was

yeah ive been watching your build thred AndyMiniMad its looking good,

well my plans are to get the cars engine done and in ready for begging of july as i want to attented the help for heroes run, so thats my dead line in a way, which i think is managable, gives me plenty of time to solve any probllems i might get.

like setting the engine up, thats the only thing im not lookign forward to right now

[danny1]

so any way blah blah blah

im still here in the uk on land for some reason but hay ho


so i reckon ill be home again this weekend which means im going to build my 7 port engine up completly and have it raedy to drop in the car i reckon.

and then the following weekend i reckon ill drop the subframe out clean up teh engine bay and prep the subframe and then maybe refit it and make sure every things is ready for the lump to be dropped in the follwing weekend.

and then from then till riv run ill have a nice running in period in the car i reckon



then make an apperance and riv run show the engine of.

so that list of stuff i have spare , if any one wants any of it i can bring it to riv run

[danny1]

some pics of my big bore cylinder head cleaned up

tuck me a good afternoons work

[danny1]

right im building my engine up tomorrow, gonna get every thing done outehr than putting my cylinder head on, as its gonne be musch easier to drop the lump in without in attached with issues with the carbs and filter clearing the slam pannle


ill take pics so you can all see my progress.

im aimign to get it all built up and running before riv run

just got to find some one brave enougth to set those twin carbs up for me

[danny1]

well my engine is finaily fully built up, just waiting till next saturday to plop it in the car.

and as prommissed some pictures










oh and heres the car which it will all be going into, looks better in person