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[MiniJosh92]

Tart.

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Neither of us could be bothered to do the MOT today  We had our Christmas today instead   

Edited by Mini-Mad-Craig, 23 December 2013 - 04:45 PM.

[scotty_1987]

Aquaplaned the whole M25, no biggie!! Had great Craic ;)

Nath

[RawlinsGTR]

MOT HAPPENED TODAY!


















It failed.

 

He didn't even get the whole way through the test haha. Testing for emissions he got 2.96% rather than what it should be, below 0.6%. Then it began to overheat, and the reading passed 3%. So he decided to stop the test to stop the engine blowing up, and that was it!

Also, after replacing nearly every gasket on the engine, one gasket I didn't replace, the gasket between the diff cover and the gearbox, is leaking. It's leaking pretty badly, and left a large puddle on the floor of the MOT centre.

 

So it looks like it's gonna be a no go for Bingley in the mini atm! Not sure though.. we'll see.

 

Thanks,

 

Simon

[jamesmpi]

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Also, after replacing nearly every gasket on the engine, one gasket I didn't replace, the gasket between the diff cover and the gearbox, is leaking. It's leaking pretty badly, and left a large puddle on the floor of the MOT centre.
 
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Sod's law that is. Hope you get it fixed soon.

Did you replace the lambda sensor? Being an mpi there could be a number of sensors effecting the emissions.

[RawlinsGTR]

Hi James,

 

I didn't replace the lambda sensor no, but I'm gonna use a fault reader to check the sensors and suchlike :)

[jb93]

Oh well, I bet it looked sweet as it pissed oil everywhere and blew the emission machine up!

[RossKnight]

UPDATE PLEASE

 

Just read the whole build thread, didn't even realise you had the crash to be honest aha, I guess that's why I haven't seen it for a while though.... Looks great though, well done.

Edited by RossKnight, 20 January 2014 - 04:58 PM.

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Great project Dog. 

 

Cat food

Edited by Mini-Mad-Craig, 24 March 2014 - 02:47 PM.

[RossKnight]

nice dawg

[RawlinsGTR]

Thanks Mini-Mad-Craig, thanks RossKnight.

 

Well I'm back from uni for 4 weeks till my exams, and I had a snoop around under the engine today and found the oil leak to be *potentially* an engine out job, so it might have to come back out. I've got a few things to look at first before I know for sure. Hopefully I can get that done in these 4 weeks in between revision and stuff. I would like to have it done for L2B this year but we shall see.

 

On a brighter note, I pushed it out the garage today to give it a well needed wash:

 

 

 

 

 

That rear fog light will be coming off after the MOT... and the tracking and all that malarky is still to be done. Plus, the wheels are going off to be refurbished soon, and will be coming back with diamond cut spokes and rims, and the rest black

 

Also for my burfday the fagmeister got me a nice new Blaupunkt headunit since mine had broken, and it looks very clean in my badly worn dash!

 

 

THANKS CRAIG

 

Sorry for the poor image quality, I am taking all my photos with a 7mp digital camera thing!

 

Cheers for looking :)

 

Simon

Edited by Dog., 29 March 2014 - 08:13 PM.

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Absolutely stunning.

 

One thing though, the headunit was for Christmas 

 

Unless you're jesus, then yeah, it was a birthday present 

[jb93]

Minbin looks sweet! Cannot wait until IMM!!

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Simon also has a lovely birthday present coming up which will make the car even more exciting But we'll reveal that at the time

 

 

[leaky]

I think you should save some pennies and get one of these dashes.

 

http://www.woodandpi...dashboards/609/

 

With a magnolia center speedo in it it would be the finishing touch to this car! Looking good anyway looking forward to seeing it at some shows again. You two benders doing the retro rides gathering this year?