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scotty_1987 wrote:did you spray the arches green?

That I did, just done them in the shed the other day... I dropped one of them and broke the end off and before I sprayed them I was using "back to black" and I didn't clean them properly and it reacted with the paint so I may buy a new set and spray them again!

I had a spare set of standard arches here somewhere Stan, if i come across them in the next few days you can have them.

Thank you very much Ste... I'l throw ya' a few quid. Give me a text if you do find them, 0858178803

ah well im sure ya will get that sorted in no time man,good luck with it anyways!:)

does it need much bodywork doin?

That is so wimdu, really great man. You should be proud of yourself!

lcopperworth wrote:That is so wimdu!

I don't know what thats means but thank you!

Anyway, another update! Picked these up of Lewis today. Need a cleaning but really wanted to see what they looked like so I just thruw them on before work. I clean them them in the morning and stick up some pictures but here they are way as

You sure do have it lookin well Stan...can I have it back now please

scotty_1987 wrote:does it need much bodywork doin?

There are a few bubbles starting at the front end... I'l get them sorted after Mondello and Mosney!

Cooper-1275 wrote:You sure do have it lookin well Stan...can I have it back now please

Mmmmmm.............. NO!

haa alright stan keep up the good work anyway man!

Was getting sick of listening to Queen on the tape deck (The only tapes I couldfind!) so decided to do something about it! Found a Sony headunit in the shed. It has a removable face and I even found the face cover! Was delighted and it then got better! Also found a 10 disc Sony cd changer! Well happy Stuck them in the other day along with a dual cigar lighter for charging the sat nav, phone and what not!

very cool

Found a Mini in a scrap yard today and pulled this of it!

Stan I may be corrected, but I think thats a rare manifold.

CLUBMANGT wrote:but I think thats a rare manifold.

Really?

isn'tit a cooper one??

looks like a cast 3 to 1 manifold.. pretty rare, was cooper item iirc.
i think the carb you already have fitted (HIF-44?) is better in my opinion than the one you show there (HS4), plus yours is likely to have the correct needle for your car. - that exhaust will be *noisy*
was there any other stuff in that car? where is the breakers? rare to see mini's in a breakers these days.

Manifold is Cooper or 1300GT , I think the carb is HS6 but as Keith says stick with the HIF44. If there off the silver car in the scrappy hope you got the center binnical and clocks.

woody wrote:Manifold is Cooper or 1300GT , I think the carb is HS6 but as Keith says stick with the HIF44. If there off the silver car in the scrappy hope you got the center binnical and clocks.

If he didn't he will be back tomorrow for them

woody wrote:If there off the silver car in the scrappy hope you got the center binnical and clocks.

Out in the shed in bubble warp Tryed to put the manifold on yesterday and it wouldn't fit as it was hitting out the fuel pump? I'm guessing its just for a 1ltr?

Not for 1ltr , the cooper and 1300GT both had electric fuel pumps. I took a photo of a manifolld I have you can see how close it is to the fuel pump blank plate on the engine. the second pic is the later Cooper freeflow manifold which is shaped to allow for the pump.




I'm not sure but I think some old mechanical pumps might have had both pipes on the same side.

So will that manifold not go onto on 1ltr of any sort?

it will go onto *any* A series that does not use the mechanical pump on the block, as woody's pic shows, the pump location blanked off.

Did you check out the engine that manifold came off. 998 or 1275? Could be a nice head on it.

if the engine number starts with 9F, its mine!

12G would be nice too.