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Well heres my mini, ive been building it with a few years on and off but dont think il ever be finished properly! Bought it as a rolling shell with no front end or engine and took it from there
The engine is a 1380 with stage 3 head, 1.5 roller rockers and an MD286 cam, im rebuilding it at the moment but it should be back in the car in a couple of weeks hopefully! Next plan is to lower it a bit more, tubb the rear arches and get some negative camber going . let me know what ye think!
minima wrote: Very nice job! Love the colour. What wheels/tyres and brakes do you have on her? Am looking for ideas for my eventual rebuild. What year is the car?
Eric
The wheels are 12 x 5 with 165/60r12 yokohama a510 on them and its got metro turbo 4 pot vented brakes with standard drums on the back.
Jason79 wrote:the bodywork looks fantastic, its very straight not even the slightest imperfection even when the sun is shineing against it
great work, did you do the body work and spray it yourself?
those wheels look like 5.5" wide i think, that way you didnt have to cut away the body work to accomadate for the wheels
jason
No im not that into doing bodywork really, got a local guy to spray it. The colour is a chrysler one i picked off a chart. The wheels are 5" but with 2 in the car its rubbing at the back so im going to tub the rear arches and lower it another inch all round i think
Heres how it sits now.........
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D_3m0_n wrote:sweet car man!
welcome to the forum..
steven
Thanks, must try to make some events this year now.
get an application form for the MTM sent away asap so
its a good test for your mini, you'll get to put faces to the members names and its prolly one of the best runs (beside IMM 2009) of the year ...
Its a metallic ya,
So this week, after the news of the NCT 5 points thing im after putting in my old 1 litre engine in an effort to pass the emmissions test which the 1380 was nowhere near passing. Sould be getting it running at the weekend, get it passed in the next few weeks and get it out again as soon as possible!