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[*franky*]

Looking good!

When you made your exhaust where did you get the flanges (he he) from to mount the pipes to?

Cheers

i had them made for me mate.

[garethIreland]

Any progress franky????

[*franky*]

Any progress franky????

just a little mate, i have took the lip off the front where the bumper would fit to, think it looks a lot beta. put a order in for my wheel arches went for the miglia carbon fiber ones from the carbon wheezel (very very helpfull people and reasonabley priced as well) should be here soon. i have found some one to paint the car aswell bout time . think i am also going to do something to the bonnet because a dont like the look of a mini bonnet sticking up at the back. any ideas welcome!.

[garethIreland]

Bit of progress with mine too. Have the old 1275 unit out and the All Speed subframe is here now. And i colllected my calibra this week. Having to use it to get around for a few days as in between cars with work etc so over next few weeks will take it off road and begin to strip it.

What have you done with brake master cyclinder? I know u can't use standard master on red top 16v convertion but will it fit with 8valve???

[*franky*]

Bit of progress with mine too. Have the old 1275 unit out and the All Speed subframe is here now. And i colllected my calibra this week. Having to use it to get around for a few days as in between cars with work etc so over next few weeks will take it off road and begin to strip it.

What have you done with brake master cyclinder? I know u can't use standard master on red top 16v convertion but will it fit with 8valve???

dont think you can mate. i have used a wilwood marter cyclinder on a modafied mini pedal box with the cyclinder on the inside of the car.
progress for me is a bit slow i have de-seemed the front also made the arches a bit bigger so my wheels wont catch. the car is also go to go for paint after the new year,so there will not be that many updats

[garethIreland]

Cool. My dad doing the project with me and he a genius at fabricating and addapting, He has the idea of putting the master cyclinders on the passengers side. some simular system to what a lot of citroens and peugoets use. But i guess there a lot of stuff to work out once we get into it. The target is to have it ready to drive to the MITP 50.
Better get cracking.

[kez_19]

Looking good!

When you made your exhaust where did you get the flanges (he he) from to mount the pipes to?

Cheers

i had them made for me mate.

i have just been looking through your build its fantastic well done just had one question about the exhaust flanges that you had made were they ordinary steel or something special for manifolds i am thinking of making my own and i am not sure if it needs to be any kind of special metal

thanks
michael

[*franky*]

yeah a had thourght about that aswell gareth, but i think that it will be to cramped in the engine bay with every thing esle. good luck any way mate.
kez, yeah they are just plain steel a think they are 6 or 8 mm thick. hope that helps thanks any way.

[*franky*]

[miniman.matt]

really neat job cutting the arches mate.
This is a top build, very different from my v-tec build but still top notch

[*franky*]

well its been a while but things a coming along very well, finished off the rollcage ready for paint, the car is going to the body shop at the weekend; touch wood, thats if i get my coustom bonnet from the fiberglass place round mine, done the guy a mint deal. he is making me a full fiberglass bonnet for a swap with the old mini engine and box. will post some pics when i get that. . started making brackets to hold the header tank, think its going to be ok just need to mount the bottom of it to something. Any ways here is some pics....







forgot to say i have been spending. got some carbon goodies for carbonwheezel. exelent stuff and even beter service...

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

nice slick looking

[*franky*]

nice slick looking

thanks mate

[sjarvis100]

mm those carbon bits look lovely!

[stooart]

wicked project! id love to do something like this in the future!

a few pages back you've got the roll cage out...what roll cage is it?
thanks!