my first mini

[fifi]

hey,
some of ya might know me from the MTM that was my first real mini run that my brother let me drive his mini(and actually let me come)
steven got me a shell a while back that he was gonna build for me but after the weekend i just totally fell in love and couldnt wait to get my own one!!:P so steven made some calls for me and i got my first mini yesterday up the north!!:)



thats my baby... 1990 racing green with 1.3 metro engine. needs a bit of work but steven recons its a good solid shell and a super first car:D

me not having a clue, Steven helped me do a few bits today.
steven barely got his hands dirty and made me do everything saying its a learning process

so, we took the distributor out changed the condensor, the contact breaker and the rotor arm and he showed me how to set the contacts gap.
I changed the distributor cap and made sure the leads were put back on the same as before and i then changed the oil and the filter. its break time now:)

the car is backfiring, Steven recons the valve clearances/tappets are set wrong so were going to do them next.
oh and flush the water through the cooling system.

Fiona

[StevenR]

Welcome along to the forum and congrats on the your new Mini.

[macker]

Welcome to the forum Fiona,

have you thought of a name for it yet?

[Miniman]

Good to see you the forum fiona and the best of look with the mini

[The Marcos Graveyard]

Nice one FiFi, you'll soon know more than Steven.

[kenno]

Very nice fifi

[Darran]

Welcome to the site Fiona, great to see that the mini bug has bitten again!!
Congrats on the new mini, plenty of help on here if you need it!

Darran.

[Jozi]

Did you write that yourself or did Steven

Will have a look later today when I get home.

Enjoy

Now just Cormac and all who went on the MTM have been converted

[twinjocks]

Welcome to the forum, Fiona - and congrats on getting your first Mini.

Julie

[PAUL D]

welcome lovely mini

[StanO'Toole]

Nice Mini fiona, but WARNING the brake is too stop, not go!!!!!!

[StanO'Toole]

I made it colour coded so even you can understand!!!

[joebe1]

fiona ur some legend, i did nt take long, will ye be with us this sunday

[fifi]

OMG i am going to kill tom for telling everyone!!!!!i swear it was the fumes of the car...im not usually like that

thanks everyone though for the warm welcome:)

hope to go to the mondello thing with steven so probably see some of yas there:) hopefully the weather will stay as good as now for it:)

and yes brendan i did wrrite that myself...steven was sitting beside me though;) didnt get much else done on it yet though part from a good wash and wax...hes all shiny now:)

[BlackSe7en]

After MTM, I think "The Undertaker" would be a good name for your new Mini. Congrats on your new purchase.

[just_st3v3n]

the ''rocket'' would be a good name for it too....

[fifi]

ok stevens after setting the tappet clearances, he says two of them were out a good bit the rest wasnt too bad...
he then did the timing which was way out and started the car.... straight away it sounded a whole lot better so steven took it for a spin and reckons the car is setup proper now and is a rocket and is way to fast for me
while he had the rocker cover of he noticed the roller rockers werent lining up with the valves properly and they were pretty dirty which he reckons was caused by the backfiring/timing causing exhaust residue in the cover....
pic.


is this normal/odd/wrong??


also i found a possible colour for my car at the mosney show yesterday...



green body, green arches and white roof.. what do you reckon??


fiona

[The Marcos Graveyard]

If you take a pic of your car as it is now, you can change the colour of it with Photoshop and see what it will look like with the colours you want

[Jozi]

If you take a pic of your car as it is now, you can change the colour of it with Photoshop and see what it will look like with the colours you want

Fiona send me the pics and I'll give it ago this evening.

[BlackSe7en]

Take a look at Woody's Estate, its a similar colour scheme to what you are looking for.

[woody]

The rockers look right, there standard rockers not roller rockers.
That green is close to mine and I've seen it with a white roof and it doesn't look right, my roof is beige.

[Tomini]

hi fiona great to see your getting your car sorted

i bet you can wait to get driving it on the road.

are you gone away from the idea of a pink mini.

keep up the good work.chat to ya later

[fifi]

Take a look at Woody's Estate, its a similar colour scheme to what you are looking for.

do you have a link or anything for that so i can have a look i cant find it??

brendan i took pictures of the car on your camera when you were home last so ya can photo shop that for me and send it to me please, thank you very much

hey tom really cant wait to get the car driving trying to get it going for sunday... will we be seeing you there??
still not sure on the colour its so hard to decide but theres no rush there yet

see ya's all sunday..those of you's that are gonna make it

Fiona

[BlackSe7en]

You can see it in the first picture in the Mosney Pictures thread



and the 5th last picture in the Gallery Section under IMM2008

[fifi]

so, after a lot of messing with seized stuff steven and my dad and a bit of me got the front rubber spring cones changed.

the rubber had sunk that much, the car was only sitting a few centimeters away from the tires.

heres the old rubber beside the new one:



because the new rubbers havent bedded in yet, the car is sitting slightly high my dad said its like a mini jeep now
at least the job is done though. happy days



did a bit of cleaning in between.
we took the seats out and the carpets also and steven recons the car is solid and no visable rust so far

got it scrubbed and hoovered on the inside so now just have to do a tony job and get polishing

Fiona

p.s big thank you to TMG for lending out the compression tool steven says your never getting it back