Irish Mini Owners Club

Steven told me about a vtec mini that used to be in Maynooth. I didn't realize it was a clubman. I'd say it was a rocket alright.

Will keep an eye out for this around Dublin, if your ever around phibsboro/drumcondra let me know

macker wrote:good news dude!
so when you gonna come out on a run with us all?
i'm beginning to think you dont like me/us anymore

my weekends havent been my own of late dude. any chance of organising a run at lunctime around town.
Preferably a static meet, on the quays, outside my office i can take photos from the balcony!

Jozi wrote:Steven told me about a vtec mini that used to be in Maynooth. I didn't realize it was a clubman. I'd say it was a rocket alright.

Will keep an eye out for this around Dublin, if your ever around phibsboro/drumcondra let me know

It's gone to the big scrapyard in the sky Bren , it met with a ditch in Wickla about 18 months ago.

92Coop wrote:

macker wrote:so you gonna drive him more now or just take more pictures of him

actually today i did both

Betcha benny was clamped

got some photos from the crash repair man earlier of how benny looked during his surgery...

when he said they replaced the back end, i thought it was just a phrase... obviously not

at least they didnt hold anetin back when repairing benny. i seen her on sunday and shes looking stunning!

Jesus
Im sure glad you didnt see him like that

I mean seeing a grown man cry and all that


But he looks better than ever maxi

Lovely clubby

well, Benny is off the road now for a while. he decided to give up the ghost on me last week.
(see Aidan, I told you what would happen if I actually drove it)

plans are for a 8v cylinder head with some other fancy gubbins. watch this space

That would be an 8v head from a BMW bike.Looking forward to seeing how this pans out.Good to see your getting the spanners out Maxi.

kerryminigringo wrote:That would be an 8v head from a BMW bike.Looking forward to seeing how this pans out.Good to see your getting the spanners out Maxi.

well they dont call me maxi the spanner for nothing

Mister Paul (Merlin) Hickey is doing the work for me.

Ok, decided to bike the bullet and go for the 8v BMW K100 cylinder head conversion.

Heres my very sick clubman arriving at Pauls one sunday afternoon...



About 4 minutes later

Wee update from Paul...

Engine blocked Emerged from my chemical bath today looking nice an clean and new I then set about machining conversion's for the BMW head
It went from this:


To this:


To this:


I than set about converting the cylinder head which went from
This:


To This:


both the block and cylinder head are now gone off to Martin Tracy in Enfield, to have the surface of the block skimmed and the block re-board to 73.5mm.
The cylinder head will get a light skim as well.
regards,
Paul

Good man i as actually doing a bit of research on this conversion will be watching with interest

Nice one Maxi,

good stuff maximus!

will be keeping an eye on this to see how things turn out

Maxi,

Will you be sticking with the front drums?

Billy

Billy wrote:Maxi,

Will you be sticking with the front drums?

Billy

yep, and a parachute in the boot

Go Bugatii stile and use your doors as air breaks

HHHMMM YUMMY


Try not break him after tis will ya

some more progress pics from mister Paul...

The HRE logo on the crankshaft bracket is cool!

Billy wrote:The HRE logo on the crankshaft bracket is cool!

i know, Paul has broken his back working on the engine for the past while,
and as soon as i saw the photos i was like "oooh, look at the shiney logo on the jobbywhatsit"

Nice one Maxi, looks fancy!

PS - It's a centre main strap

your technical descriptions will never be beaten as normal

Glad to see you keeping on top of the technical side of things Mixi.