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[rally1380]

Or have the wife giving you a piece of her mind for being at credit limit!!!!

[minisi35]

Or have the wife giving you a piece of her mind for being at credit limit!!!!

my wife used to navigate for me, until the "piece of her mind" got too much lol (well that and bad car sickness)

[rally1380]

Update on its way....plenty of work done, just not alot of time left to the next event so chasing my arse as usual!!!

[minispaniard]

as it always happens... good luck for the Tour of Cheshire, it'll be great to see a small write-up in the Motorsport section!

[rally1380]

as it always happens... good luck for the Tour of Cheshire, it'll be great to see a small write-up in the Motorsport section!

As long as the write up doesn't read.....car broke....i'm rubbish.....had to walk home....in dog house!!!! Ha ha ha....will do a glowing report i'm sure.

[rally1380]

Ok so work done lately........

Facet fuel pump mounted on custom bracket on the rear subframe tucked nice and high up out of the way. Need to fabricate a shield to protect it 100%.

All suspension and brakes back on.....just need bleeding.

Original fan back in until weather warms up....was finding the 6 blade fan was making the engine run cold when the weather was cooler...will swap back in the summer.

Brackets for dash made and installed...photo's of dash to follow once finished.

Speedo cable trip meter sensor installed and loom made up....just need to wire in trip meter.



And now for some filthy 'X' rated photo's.......WARNING........these photo's will cause distress (to credit cards!!!!)

A little bit of Maniflow any one???




And the money shot provided by those naughty people at MED....

[jaydee]

Thats expensive

What trip meter kit are you fitting?

[mercenary62]

have you ever made any more headlinings mate as i think your missing a trick here , im sure plenty folk would be interested on here and other mini places ,it would help fund your bit of motorsport to some degree , great progress on the car by the way top work

[rally1380]

Thats expensive

What trip meter kit are you fitting?

patience....all will be revealed.

The carbs weren't too expensive really....the carbs only cost me £30 and did the cleaning and rebuild myself. And I got a very good deal direct from Maniflow on the manifold. The manifold is worth every penny when you compare it side by side with a cast alloy one.....i will never buy an alloy one now i've seen the quality of Maniflow. The MED kit was expensive for what it is.....but the filters alone are quite expensive so the kit is actually good value.

[rally1380]

have you ever made any more headlinings mate as i think your missing a trick here , im sure plenty folk would be interested on here and other mini places ,it would help fund your bit of motorsport to some degree , great progress on the car by the way top work

Cheers for the kind comment.

As for the headlining.....to be honest it wasn't that easy to make and to do it properly (as a business idea) i would need a deeper throated sewing machine. The problem is that the vinyl has foam stuck to the back to give it the ribbed look and the foam makes it difficult to get it through a standard sewing machine. Also installing the lining is a specialist job and not one that everyone could do to be honest. As its glued in with industrial uphostery glue it isn't very forgiving if you get it slightly twisted.

If someone wanted one, and offered me enough i would make another one, but to be honest there are cheaper headlinings out there.

[mercenary62]

ok mate just an idea

[rally1380]

Engine fired up and ready to go once mixture is sorted.

Interior next on the list to sort out and keep the nav happy

[danny1]

were did you get the 90 degree brake bits from?

[elpedro]

cracking car buddy :)

[rally1380]

were did you get the 90 degree brake bits from?

Ebay....can't find any other like them. But they are Aeroquip if you want to try them. You can get alloy ones if you are using flexi hose.