Irish Mini Owners Club

jas, thats a grand bit of weld'n

nice job

jason

cheers there jason, hows ur clubman, get insured yet>??

well tom cant really put a finish deadline to it cuz its all money related which there is f all of...
cant seem to get the hang of this stupid filling but once thats done it shouldnt take long.
i doubt it will take the ''3 weeks'' your bro expects me to have it finished
been helping the sis wit her mini in the meantime too and helping cormac (baldy lad from mtm) look for a mini also, we plan goin have a look at one on saturday

I'm glad your filling the gaps near the scuttle and under the lights, should look the business!

nice work steven

well stephen how are you getting on.
i was not on here in a while and was just wondering how nancy is.

Stevens to busy fixing other peoples mini's

I think the plan is to take it home and work on it under the lean-to, once all the other mini's are moved

yea pretty much wat my bro said there... fixing other ppls cars and minis, before i can finally shift mine home....
its still the way it was wen your bro popped out to me that time
have to shift shanes mini (project section) first which is nearly there, so hopefully v soon...
where you been hiding anyway???

good stuff steven.nacy will be happy to see you on the winters evenings again
i am busy working and my little daughter is keeping me busy.
are you coming to the western region run.
how is your sis car going for her

il let pics do the talking...





993cc 3 cylinder 6valve carb turbo from daihatsu charade (late 80's early 90's)

steven

sweet, u got 1!
whats the story wit fittin it, subframe and drive shafts.........????

Nice one stephen..where you get it from??i got meself a swift gti engine last week for doing a bit of work for some one..

Finally a Nancy update!

He got the engine from someone over on E30owners.com, I posted a thread up for him and 30mins later there was an engine.

like the bro said, got it from a lad on e30's in dublin , sound chap...
basicly have all i need there for the engine besides driveshafts, these shall have to be made whenever i get it fitted into the subframe..
gonna try and squeeze it into the original mini subframe which shall be quite tight cuz of the width of the gearbox so will be needing a fair bit of modding...
im making a spit at the minute for the clubby estate, once thats up and running things should go alot faster, whenever i get p-d of wit the clubby il toddle over and see can i do something with the engine as i have a spare front subby...

nancy however is still hidden way

DMGT whered you get the swift gti??? is it the DOHC one ~ 120 hp?

steven

Got it from the same place i get me other 1293 engine in dub..the fella has lots of nice tasty stuff..hes a bit of a horder two..he has all sorts of crap two..! i think this is just the 100bhp one its def DOHC..must call up to see to see the clubby estate one of the eves..

some seriously hard work you've clearly put into the car lad!! Fair play.
any progress update on it??

cheers lad, unfortunately not a thing since the last pics.. im keepin an eye on her from time to time just in case the rust starts biting again but none can be seen yet thankfully
iv been doing other cars and picked up another project which is parked outside the door (nancy is hidden away ) so wanna get it finished first and then bring nancy home...
here's the other project http://irishminis.ie/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4219
things just aren't going as quick as i had hoped ....

steven

Right since i'm back from Australia I got Nancy home there yesterday, first time its been at the house since i owned it... Since this is now the only mini I own and have a bit of free time I have decided to just keep working at it untill i jet off again.
Had a good look at it and gave it a bit of a clean earlier on after it sat in a hay shed for the past year or so..
Chuffed how well the shell held out since i never got round to painting it at all really.
The roof is the worst but hopefully its just surface rust.
I'll take some pics tommorow in day light..

I've made kind of a competition of it with my brother who is restoring his E30 touring for too long now so this might give him a kick up the ass to get the finger out too

Ah, the 1 litre turbo engine is long sold but am on the lookout for a crashed Aygo,c1,107 1 litre 3 cylinder engine, seems like a decent swap.. so if anyone knows of any let me know please.

-good economy
-same power as stock cooper
-complete engine/ancillaries weigh half that of a mini engine at 69 kg's
-toyota reliability
-sure why not ...

more to come....

steven

just_st3v3n wrote: I've made kind of a competition of it with my brother who is restoring his E30 touring for too long now so this might give him a kick up the ass to get the finger out too

Haha, not gonna work

Brother had this stuff that eats away the rust thats whats on the roof..

decided to blank out the side indicators..

just used tape to cover the indicator hole stuck the piece i had made up onto it and put two quick tacks on from inside of wing and then a few tacks on the outside and grinded smooth..
not bothered welding the whole lot up as some way down the line (nct) they might have to go on again..