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[steveobennet]

dun dun dun! the one on the left on both pictures is what you should find in a standard mini gear box, the one on the right costs 160 english pounds, and is worth the investment if you are planing on running 100hp plus (of course there are hardened diff pins, which uses the old caging that are suitable for about the same power output but i wanted more!)

[Bungle]

thankyou

[steveobennet]

engine went in today, not with ease though! bought some bottom engine mounts of ebay, the ones with nuts welded on the actual mount to make putting your engine in a lot easier, trust me it doesn't! i struggled for an hour with the fubaring things, in the end abuse with a hammer got one side on, and the other i ripped of the welded nut and just put a bolt through!

i should have just got normal mounts, as it would have been a doddle! ah well i know for future now, the paint match on the bulkhead is pretty good, but due to applying too much paint in one go, i have quite bad orange peel on it, but hey at least its blue! the engine should be hopefully staying in now for good, have already fitted the differential, shimmed it up and torqued it up! i did put my turbo box in the right place, thankgod, and i have quite abit of room around it, as to keep the turbo cool. enough chat heres some pics!

[Duncan]

Hi mate
remember seeing earlier in this thread that you fitted read spax coilovers
ive been looking to do this on my mini but read somewhere that it requires the wheel arches to be turreted
dunno if this is true but did urs just fit straight in or did u do some body work?

Cheers

[steveobennet]

as long as you buy the offset top mount ones they should fit straight on. only slight modification is to open the two lips of the shock mount just so the coilover doesn't rub on the body

[miniallsort]

nice

[Duncan]

cheers for that mate
probaly just get them then
cars looking great by the way

[TimS]

This car reminds me of mine sooo much! I love it. The paint job looks gorgeous. Are you going to be painting the engine and manifolds at all?

[steveobennet]

might just leave the engine red, got blue silicone hoses for it, don't really have the need to paint anything else

[steveobennet]

not much done over chrimbo. the 13x7 wheels that i got were from p&l but were supplied by midland wheels, and i can see why mws have such a bad reputation. my wheels have seen no road use at all, just been exposed to abit of water and the laquer has already started to peel and go cloudly! now i could return these and get some others but no doubt they would only do the same. so i have resulted in remove the laquer just on the metal. its hard to see by the pictures, but the one with the laquer removed is now more shiny than the laquered one! i've only done the one, and the laquer was removed crudely by some brake fluid! the have been polished up with autoglym's metal polish, and they should last a month or two with out re-polishing with some belgom alu!

no laquer


laquer


other than that i've just replaced the fuse box with something more reliable! plus i have plenty more spaces for more gadgets!

[supermotolee]

fuse box looks nice were did you get that from?

thanks lee

[steveobennet]

where i get almost everything, ebay! i'm hooked!

[supermotolee]

i actuallyy thought i'l check ebay after i posted that and found some similar ones thanks lee

[rsroadkilla]

looking good mate!

I cut out my turbo box over the cmas holidays. Cant wait to start putting her back together again!!!

As for the wheels, my mate has a un-laquered polished lip. Everytime they got wet the water would dry and leave a white mark. he had to polish them everytime he washed his car! lol Hopefully it should be alright with you though

Lookig good mate! Keep it up!

[steveobennet]

hence the reason for this belgom alu stuff
link
http://www.elitecarc...products_id=110

it contains a wax, which basically means when i polish my wheels it will leave some protection, so i won't need to polish them for a month or so.