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[aavayro]

Hi, Love the mini and the colour, Could i ask. What Arches have you used?....

[jonb_5]

Thanks for the comments!

The arches are group 5.

They fit over the wheels perfectly, which are 12x6

Cheers

Jon

[jonb_5]

Hi,

Not much progress lately:

I have been making up a bracket for my megajolt, crank sensor as well as drawing up a plan for my TPS sensor. Also have the megajolt unit on order from the states.

Also have got a CAT 1 alarm ready to be installed, should make the car a little more secure.

The new back seat covers are on order from EMALEE, which should look awesome when i get them next week.

Going to be fitting the megajolt in over the next couple of weeks and getting it all running, so when i get back from holiday in march i will be getting the car back to a rolling road, thinking of going to SLARK RACING because of the great reputation they have and getting a decent amount of power out of it this time.

Cheers

Jon

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[ianpettifer]

SLARK FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jonb_5]

Hi,

I have been doing some more work over the past few days.

Took of the steering wheel cowling sanded down to get rid of the textured finish and painted up to match the dash, makes it look so much nicer.






Also in the middle of fitting a megajolt, the kit is being asssembled as we speak, I have made the crank sensor bracket, shown below, and am in the middle of making the TPS sensor bracket. Just needs a little bit of wiring then.





With the crank sensor bracket I have built in some adjustability by being able to space out the sensor brackwards and also to the right using washers.

Starting to look really good, keeping it polished up for when i really start to drive it.

Cheers

Jon

[scrumpymini]

Thanks for the comments!

The arches are group 5.

They fit over the wheels perfectly, which are 12x6

Cheers

Jon

Fantastic car and what a fab colour, i have just bought the same wheels as you have, can i ask if you had to use any wheels spacers to make them fill the arches OK.

Steve

[jonb_5]

Hi

Thanks for the comments, i did not use any wheels spacers at all.

They just seem to fit perfectly which is exactly the look i was after.

Cheers

Jon

[jonb_5]

Been working on the mini again, weather has picked up a little bit.

Alarm is now installed and works perfectly.

Have recovered my back seats and started work on a TPS sensor for the megajolt.

Let me know what you think.

Cheers

Jon

[jonb_5]

Made a bracke today to mount the coil pack to on the transfer casing. Tommorow I am going to start the megajolt wiring, leave it running until i have everything else i can get wired in. Will take some more pictures then if anyone is interested??

All comments/advice welcome.

Cheers

Jon

[jonb_5]

Installed the megajolt today, just have to make up a dizzy blanking plug at work, use some stainless and turn it down on the lathe.

Only problem now is some of the other electrics have stopped working so i am going to have to look into that a little bit more.

Heres a few pics, and of the mini playing with my dads new camera.

Cheers

Jon

Edited by jonb_5, 28 February 2009 - 12:52 PM.

[LankyJames]

I love this car, so very jealous, almost exactly what i would have mine like if i went for a metallic colour! Love the blue mate, such a good choice.

[emalee]

your mini is soooooo nice!!!

and you've done a amazing job creating it!!!

(especially with those rear seats )

[LankyJames]

i agree emalee, those rear seats look lovely i just wonder where i could get myself some!

[jonb_5]

No updates for a while but have been working towards this.

Just picked it up today after it was rolling roaded at slarks. Its a little bit less power than i was hoping for but its a great start and its still very quick. Am really impressed, drove home to torbay and loved every minute of it, even if it was a little bit loud.

Going to be using it for the show season and then updates over next winter will include new exhaust manifold and get some more work done on the head.

Heres the rolling road results:



Im going to be heading up to Weston Super Mare at the end of the month for my first show this summer.

Cheers

Jon

[LankyJames]

Will you enlighten us that hath forgotten what spec your engine is?

Looks like a healthy bhp return to me