83 replies to this topic

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

is that not an oulet for coolant as the eatons water cooled on some binis isnt it

or could be for a dump valve / waste gate

[Willy_sa]

Nice build, The thing you are asking about is accualy the waterpump for the car, you can take it off and just block it off with a plate or use it as the waterpump for the car. The eaton is not watercooled it just has oil in the gears behind the pump.

[mini.cooper998]

cheers Willy SA, does it have a good egnough capacity to do a highly tunned classic mini engine. would be neet to get rid of the water pump and plate that over. How would you pipe it up to get good flow around the block.

Andy

[gregh55]

looking good, you keeping the fuel tank or going for some retro twin tanks etc?

[mini.cooper998]

will be fitting a fuel cell as the filler hole has been filled

[Willy_sa]

Well i guess that if it works for a 125kw Cooper S it would probably work for a classic mini. And if you think of blanking off the old pump, i guess you can do it, just make sure about the flow of both pumps and also the flow direction of the whole system. would love to see this done. (It must be possable and the same as fitting a electrical pump).

[CobraV8]

Nice project, similar to what I did with my car (project link in signature). Best of luck

[mini.cooper998]

small update today

back on its floor so i can trial fit some front end panels







Not a bad fit for pattern panels need to bash the gap at the front a little to square the bonnet gap up around the headlamp area

also managed to get all the floor welded in, will get some rustoleum all over the floor and then weld the sills on



Also need a bit of headlining rail so this is a picture of what i need to cut out





also picked up a 1293 engine at weekend will post pictures later

[LuckyThe1275]

Any updates?

Looking good

Matt

[mini.cooper998]

Well its been a while since i did much to the mini, poor thing is sat at the back of the garage been on with two things really. So mine has taken a back seat first job is still on with the house upgrade updating the kitchen fitting new interior doors and carpet so all money has been gone, however in payment for doing the joinery ive been working on Shazminibeasts mini. Been a fun ride with highs and lows

we have

fitted rear lights back on as they had been smoothed
fitted boot hinges as they had been smoothed
new petrol tank and welded filler inside the boot.
new wiring loom (full)
door solenoids into the doors (smoothed off external door)
Lots and Lots of welding
Put the rear cage back in
fitted the BINI seats you saw at the beginning of the thread (so damn comfy its untrue)
new steering column and Key switch
New fuse box
new gauges
new dash
rebuilt the front subframe with new boots
Fitted a turbo bulkhead box
then fitted a turbo setup
welded up the exhaust
MOT
then Blew it up (head gasket)

so were just waiting on some parts and then hopefully back on the road

pictures below








ive also been doing a little work on mine

new dash




new headlamps



also managed to get the healboard seamwelded in and doors on.


looking to find a good sprayer next in the vacinity may even try and get it down to panelbeater peter if i can organise getting it down there

hopefully get shazs car on the road in the next few days and get back on with mine hope to have it done by winter HOPE.

need to find some mini special wheels so i can send them to fast carl for conversion, they are the sexiest wheels going.

decided to go mk1 bootlid mk2 rear lights mk 1 front

[Gizzum]

You have gone away from the blow through supercharger then?

Are you going to get back to it or go for the turbo option? Can I ask why? As I am going to be going for a blow through on my project... when i get it started.

Jez

[mini.cooper998]

hi jez the green mini isnt mine i was doing it in payment for some joinery work.

i am still going blow through, i have the supercharger, turbo carb and plenum, fuel pressure regulator,race alternator, mpi pulleys just need an intercooler and pipe work and the engine in to work on it

managed to collect all the parts for about £400 so far.

need to get some low comp pistons yet too

oooh and get the shell finished so it can be shipped to the sprayers giving me space to work on the engine and running gear.

also going to get fastcarl to modifiy some exation wheels to 7x10 cant wait

itching to get the green ******* out my gargae and the black ******* back on the floor

hopefully next week

Andy

[mini.cooper998]

another update

managed to get the inner wings welded back in thanks to the IVA





then front panel and wings fitted (this is where things got painfull)



nearside wing fitted fine



Offside was a bit different top of the wing was touching up against the scuttle panel fine but was 1/4" away from the apanel

the gap looks worse as ive cut it back to get a weldable section in

so had to weld a strap of metal in



ground back ready for filler





bonnet fitted (new fibreglass one)





starting to come together now

so trial fitted the bootlid



looking nearly like a mini now

finished of welding the inner sill (seam welded both sides and healboard)





list of welding is slowly getting smaller now

new cross member to weld

[mini.cooper998]

drivers side outer sill to weld on





drivers side floor to finish welding up to bulkhead



rear valance left to weld on



also got a headlining rail of ivorbadger top guy turns out its called a cant rail



tried the arches on for show mmmmmmm wide



but collected the basis of the wheels now

get them cleaned up and sent to fast carl to convert to 7x10" splitrims



was given a pair of buckets for some work completed too

not what i want but may do for now or could swap for rollcage or tuning parts





got a week of in 2 weeks so hopefully completed and ready for spraying by christmas i hope

onward and upward

[7pti_sleeper]

Wow, you've been getting on with a bit!

Looking good Andy, and I thought I was going to catch you up!