Scoobasteve7 wrote:Hey Vtec Lad.
Welcome to the site.
Judging by your name and mention of jap influence I assume you're dropping in a vtec? make sure you throw up a build thread in the projects section. (include lots of pictures!
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I like the way you've started though...buying wheels and shafts...really working from the ground up.
You'll find a wealth of information here I guarantee it!
As for the one man mini club, i've never met him and he's never met me as far as I know.
I'd just advise build your mini to your own standard. Not someone elses. You will know yourself what was done well/ok/perfect/brutal and you are the one that has to live with it at the end of the day. Some parts of my own that I will definitely be getting back to at some stage as I'm not totally happy with it!
We are all our own worst and best critics.
Wish you the best with the build.
Stephen
Hi Stephen . yes of course Stephen , big into Honda engines, Sr20det's from nissans etc etc. for this mini build we're hoping to figure out from a selection of engines to use,, including the R1 engine, 13b rotary turbo ,Honda k24 vtec engine or k20 or a b series just to keep it old skool and use a good A series Mini engine fully built , but with the sleeper look.
I have a background in photography and media myself so lots of pictures will come and maybe even a film of the build..
the standards of this car will be to over perfection (ie. I got a stone chip on my road going type r civic and the next day I had it rubbed down and re-painted)
To the Comments of MMurfree there, well forums are forums and Opinions are entitled to everyone wheather its criticism or not. to your comment !"some of the guys on here don't have any mechanical knowledge at all but yet they make the effort which in my book is what makes a mini your own" Well id rather have someone who talks straight and honest instead of behind your back and under there breath when your not there ! in My own Opinion I personally think a car shouldn't be half built wheather its lack of expierence or not. it should be done to a perfection standard and push the boundaries to make the level of art and craft new in the mini world.... but im not here to criticise anyones work myself. im here enjoy minis after years of not having them to persue other motorsports.
I went to look at 5 or 6 minis in the course of a month and the descriptions that owners gave me on the phone were "theres a small bit of rust here and there and needs nothing, but when you went to look there was holes in floors the size of my hands, doors falling off , rotten to a understatement... and everyone had the attitude of OMIMOC saying how it is . there would be less of this secret whispers and BS in the community when purchasing... in the years of buying cars off ebay everycar has been like its description? but irish owners think its ok to mislead a buyer. I think that's the sort of problems arise from not talking straight. IMO!
anyway as I said im here to show a build ... but it could take years to make it perfect as I wont be happy until its flawless. ill be building from the entire ground up. better than the day it came out of the factory...
Anyway guys Peace out... thanks for kinda words. and ill see yee soon with some pics and info !!!
