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[miniallsort]

love your mini mate the wheels look great

[LankyJames]

Your mini is awesome, as has been said before your dash, and all other alloy bits in fact look so factory!

I bet you could sell those foot plates and dashs all day long!

[slyrmini]

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Ok, it ain't an Austin Cooper S but I like the badge so why not? I'm sure if it has feelings it will be happy now!

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Few pics I took of myn at Crich..

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[analogue_radio]

Are they the early or late style front indicators?

[slyrmini]

Just finished reading through the topic and thats a bloody good mini ya have have got there bud.
What else you got in store for it?

Not much more to be honest, engine mods if anything and keeping it looking and running as good as I can.

[slyrmini]

Are they the early or late style front indicators?

Late...i think..? are the early ones smaller and stand proud more? if so I have the late ones.

Edited by slyrmini, 20 July 2008 - 06:21 PM.

[LankyJames]

Found your mini at crich mate, got a few snaps and it really is as nice in the flesh as the pictures show!
Too shy to come over and say hi / intro myself but did say a passing alright later in the day! Was in bright green shirt, and the most work in progress mini there, matt black with red door and white fibre glass front
THIS ONE:

[slyrmini]

Ahh.. I remember the passing Hi and I remember you taking the last pic, thanks alot for them mate, nice pics.

Glad you liked the Mini, we will have to have a talk next time!

[Racer_Pete]

What a cracking Mini you have! Love it

[lewis]

damn you, damn you so much for having a great nack for getting the right mix of parts so nice

absolutley cracking mate

[slyrmini]

I've been having problems with oil spitting out of the crank case breathers at high revs so decided I'd pipe in an oil catch tank to keep the engine bay oil free.
Looked on Demon Tweaks and laughed at the price of a poxy alloy catch tank, put the catalogue down and got my thinking cap on.

I came up with this... One £1.99 alloy water bottle, a £3.99 push bike bottle holder, some spear hosing and connections that were laying around in the garage and the little filter I had from the crank case breather before.

Here’s how it looks..

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The breather close to the fan is piped up to the rocker cover throwing the oil back into the engine, the breather on the clutch side is piped to the oil catch tank and the braided hose that also goes into the catch tank acts as a breather for the rocker cover because of the added pressure from the fan side breather.

Make any sense? Looked at quite a few engines with catch tanks and that’s a similar set up. Seems to be working just fine.

[Tomf]

Looks like a good solution might have to seal that idea

[LankyJames]

Clever clever clever, and neat too, what sort of high revs are we talking about? What does your mini happily pull up to?

[slyrmini]

If I'm really going for it I can rev it to 7200rpm if I hit 7300rpm the engine screams and hits complete limit.

Sounds awesome at 5 - 6000rpm, my hearing just about explodes at 7..haha

80mph in 3rd at about 7000rpm

Edited by slyrmini, 21 July 2008 - 08:15 PM.

[kcchan]

Oh my, everything is just spot on. Even your bodges are beautiful.