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[Tomm]

Christ man i love this car!

Is that smudgers valance on there?

[steveobennet]

nope, its a non-genuine one. mind you with smudger being just around the corner from me, i could have my whole mini kitted out with smudgers bits!

[wilcooper]

that exhaust is kinda growing on me steve, damn you!!!! its that pic you just posted, looks great!

[Tomm]

ah! Does look like smudgers ones, matter of fact if he is only round the corner why dont you have rhis beast kitted with smidgers parts from top to bottom? because lets be honest you cant get muchbetter than his stuff eh?

But anyway this is a VERY nice car bud and i am sure you dont need to be told! ha ha.

I would very much like mine to turb out some thing like this.

when do you hope to have this on the road by ?

[Mincento]

steve its looking damn good loving how in all the pics its always gleaming my cinq sporting whether sitting on drive or not always lost its shine after a month or two

im in a similar situation to you on the exhaust front i have just brought a twin stainlesss 4" slash cuts carbon wrapped backbox but dont know how to mount it so you see the carbon without it loooking daft

wayne

[steveobennet]

i have one of those special cameras, that blur the image and always make it look clean! when-ever i'm not working on it its covered in a home made cover of fabric, and 2 tarpulins or however you spell it. if the whole back box was around 4" in diameter it wouldn't look too bad. but hey i've made up my mind, so a 2" side exit it will be.

i could get all smudger bits on it, but its not the look i'm going for. i heading towards a not in your face street racer style with plently of carbon. you know loud but yet subtle. on the road for summer time. have qutie a few more bits to get, including sorting an alarm, all before it hits the road, but roughly i reckon around july-august possibly september.

[Racer_Pete]

Very nice!!!, How much was your carbon fibre door cards?

[steveobennet]

£100 off none other than smudger.

[Racer_Pete]

oh right thanks, just wanted to kno because i brought some but not off smudger, £105 for the whole set + parcel shelf on ebay, But your ones look a lot better than mine

[steveobennet]

well the good things always cost more!

so today, took it to work. on works trade plates of course. heres a short story.


turned her over with a bit of choke, she started with a bit of smoke. burbling just below 2k.

reversed out the drive onto the road. adrenalin starts pumping, the feeling of a mini on the road again!

slowly took her to the end of the street. brakes work, phew! start accelerating down the road. feathering the throttle.

fighting the steering wheel, as the tracking is way oot!

stop at the lights, indicator on. a few people look, wonder how a 6ft 3 monkey is sitting comfortably in a mini!

driving along, put her in second take it up to 3.5k wooosh, pisst, chatter? eh?

into work over the speed bump scraping the exhaust on the way. into the workshop which she shall stay until tomorrow morning when she shall travel to thy body shop.



well it was fun! got some weird noises coming from the turbo, probably a hose off or something. also the fan is catching on the surround which doesn't help! i was loving the sound of the turbo spooling up, so tempting to rev higher but i want to take it easy for a few hundred mile before i do any serious driving. I'm going to get the tracking sorted tomorrow, before i take her to be fixed, and will probably sort out the fueling, as she runs but could do with a tune. it was great seeing people look at the car, but i can't imagine what must be going through their minds when they see the exhaust!

i really want to be driving this now, but i can just about wait a few months till she is ready for the road.

will get some pics up tomorrow.

[lewis]

can imagine being in the mini as you explained that! feels like your there

well done you deserve it after having so much to sort out

make a video make a video!

[steveobennet]

might video me driving back but, plan on making a few once its road legal

[steveobennet]

so,
sorted the tracking out, it was way oot! try about 15degrees out! and also did have a pop at the emissions, but thought bugger it its getting a new exhaust anyway. it also seem i have quite abit of camber on the front wheels, even though my adjustable bottom arms are wound all the way in! must be set up for extreme cornering!







oh and a quick thanks to matt (zenob) for the seat, made driving the car so much more comfy than the spare tyre!

[steveobennet]

well she back, and she looks better than before! shame i had to fork out to fix it.











heres where they welded and pulled out the roof



also both aerocatches were sprayed and the old dzus fastners holes filled and both wings sprayed





also my corbeau forza seat and subframe have arrived so i will fit them on the weekend. i also have to strip parts off the engine, sort the leaking joind on the turbo downpipe. got to some how plumb in my gauges as well. more pics to follow on the weekend

[Retro_10s]

Lol my old seats are really doing the rounds!! glad you found it comfy;) i did too!