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[Pie]

looking fab Pie!... look forward to seeing this!

so am i

[RacingGreen]

So is it finished yet?

[Pie]

LMAO

in a word....NO

Need to get pistons crank and garbox, aswell as a few other little bits and bobs.

BUT i got clamped yesterday and had to spen £94 to get my car release BARSTEWARDS!!

[RacingGreen]

so whens it gunna be finished then?


Theres no point wasting your time on clamps, get the car finished, it will spur me on to do mine, so i can beat you

[Pie]

It wasnt my choise to get the clamp, ok i parked in a stupid place and sods law me and my work colleuge got clamped, 2 cars outta 12!!

Its coming along anyway mike.

[Alburglar]

Get it built mate, you haven't got as much time as you think. It sounds like your getting the right bits together.

[Pie]

I'm working on it Al. I know i dotn have much time or money for that fact lol. Written my letter to everyones favourite man, the tax man!!

Hopefully my rebate will come VERY SOON! Last yesr it was the money i spent on the run LMAO

[Jammy]

Personally I'd look at getting a 2nd hand engine just to get you there and back! I think saving £2.4k, building the engine and then getting the mini sorted, all in....3 months is really pushing it.

[Pie]

I think its not only a challenge but more "intresting" that way lol.

Might have saved a bit of money with a clutch/flywheel assembly i have found.

And Jammy, dont worry mate i will be there again this year so you can see "The Laydies"

[Pie]

Right, well a small update.

Me and Lew started to remove the engine today, we chose the hard way. We took off the front bumper, and the spotlights, and the grill and the weather was great, so i knew it was going to well.
So we were now ready to dump the oil and start work on getting the einge out and into my back garden!

"lewis, got your jack?"

"ah, i forgot it!"

so a great start, no jack! then opened up my tool box got the spanners out, ah bugger! two 11mm spanners and no 10mm grrr!!
So no jack and no 10mm spanner, and then oh yep! nothing to put the oil in! Anyway manage to get a spanner and a tray for the oil (which ended up on the floor anyway due to Mr.careful himself (lewis)!

So we set to it. Hoses were ripped off, radiator went next then the alternator along with the dizzi cap leads etc etc.

Found out why the engine kept overheating.

1) The radiator was full of cr@p, but you would expect that of a 21 year old radiator!
2) One of the radiator hoses had got a little warm and melted an excape passege aka a hole! (im guessing thats NOT good)
3) The inside of the rad (which faces the engine, and not the passengers wing) was covered in oil, along with the rest of the engine.

So on payday, minispares will get an order from me for a new 2core rad, some hoses, and a fw other bits and bobs.

Anyway we carried on ripping the engine to pieces untill we got to the manifold!
See the link pipe had come away fro the Y piece just before it came off the road. And we couldnt get the Y piece off!
After abuot 30mins of faffing abuot with it, it was off.

And thats where we left it. Hopefully it may be out 2moro, if not, then it will be monday night.
All thats left to do is disconnect the gear linkage and the balljoints then lift it out.

I think i might need to clean all the "fluffy" looking oil off so i can get to bolts etc.



also have a look on www.myspace.com/worcesterretro

and add us, Dan (JetBlick) has been playing about with it, as his myspace is so amazing! (he has one picture, and its of a silver transit van?!!!)

[jim295]

Looking forward to when this starts to really come together, inspired me to keep it small block!

998/1048 power!!

[samwell]

w00t, small boreracers kick proverbial bottom

[CanadianMiniFan]

1098!!!

[Dog]

1380/1430

[*DJH*]

1380/1430

I laugh in the face of large bores! 998/1098 all the way baby!!!