How cool is that! I bet it will be rapid as fook!!!

 

Brave boy!

 

Nice project mate

Going to surprise a few people

 

That is bonkers mate I only live a stone throw away in Bacton so if i see that coming in my rear view mirror i think i'll just stick the left indicator on and let yer past lol

I knew a lad who had a Mini with a Metro turbo engine in that was bad enough but this will be an animal.

 

Mine's got 87 whp and weighs just over 400 kg. its scary enough.
this is going to be insane. hats off to you fella nice work

 

Superb

 

Very nice, glad ive seen this, lad at work loves minis, but wants to keep it Rover with the engine etc, might have to use this to convince him otherwise lol

 

that will fly and handle like a go kart

 

Stuuning and will shock a few people

 

love it mate looking forward to seeing this finished

 

cheers everybody for all the good comments, i cant wait till its finished either.
waiting for the recon gearbox to come back should be this week, then its the engine, got a price on a full recon with t34 greens etc should be running 350bhp which was 50bhp more than i was wanting at the start, but wont need to up the power at a later date now
got to get saving now need money money money

 

HOW DO Scarnny

Who did you ask about the engine?

 

i asked on here, scs in peterborough were recommended they seem to have what i want.
do you know of anybody nearer?

 

stick waith scs mate,

harvey is at the top of the ladder,

for me hes worth the travel

your in very very good hands mate

 

I don't know of anyone else nearer that i would trust, when i need to get mine rebuilt SCS is where i'm taking mine, it's only a little over an hour away from here.

 

awesome project mate, love to see this fully done, is there a deadline to be finished??

 

cheers mate for the comments. was hoping to be finished summer time but both funds and time getting low at the mo.
should have engine in and back on wheels by summer ,what else i get done im not sure yet.

 

NUTTER!!!

 

Yeah it seems scs are the boys everybody recommends them.
So your a bacton boy just down the road where in the village are you?

 

good luck anyhow

 

Live in Earls Green mate just past the scout hut and football field just before the shop green if yer know it, i'm often in Woolpit at the chippy lol.

Think you might know Brett on here lives in Mendlesham, he's now starting a rather tasty saph track car prodject.

 

yeah i know where you are, thats the posh part of bacton lol.
i know brett from mendlesham i used to live there a few years back, good bloke. good chips in woolpit hey?

 

love it

 

Very nice build, will be like a Banshee to drive

 

Bloody hell Ive seen it all now!!!!! That is mental!

 

Love it! was also going to take on a mini project again this year with my mate Sam, had all the bits to.

2.2 V-tec from prelude we had and a mini we had stored but mate of mine asked if he could have the mini so gave it him.

Good job realy as we've got the bloody escorts to finish but defo gona do another mini after seeing inspiration like this.

 

I would love to see havry and his lad in that live mapping it going up the road, do you think they would get in lol

 

good to hear a fellow mini lover. they are doing all sorts will minis nowadays bike engines, vauxhalls , and vtec which seems to be the engine of choice for most. havent seen many cosworths though which i why i started mine, its good to be different.
before i started mine i was toying with using the honda s2000 engine and gearbox its got a six speed box and 250bhp standard but the bloke in the scapy wanted to much for the donnar car, glad i didnt now.

 

I think every one loves a mini mate, I grew up on an A-series lol

Clubman's my fave though

yeh agree with doing something new and the V-tec is widely used but no one from what we could find had fitted a 2.2 V-tec as they said it was to big lol we were gona mate it to a 1.6 box, imagine the ratio

will defo do another one day though, look forward to getting a chance at seeing this in the metal

 

there certainly is!!

x

 

hi there everyone. have been doing little bits on the car but nothing like i wanted to get done time a bit sparse at the mo.
all the little bits add up though. fitted the diff and drive shafts plumbed brakes in and just waiting to bleed them up, will be Saturday hopefully.
added a few trick bits to the brakes a bias gauge a line lock an a bias valve to adjust the back brakes for track / road.
also made up a handbrake cable out of two sierra cables.

master cylinders pipe work in engine bay.


more pipe work



front strut setup



line lock nice and close at hand.


bias valve just for the back brakes.




drive shaft in place ready to rumble.





you dont often see one of these under a mini.










not much room under the wheel for the caliper.








more updates next week me hopes

 

Very very nice!

 

awesome mate!
are you taking it to santa pod sometime this year?

 

very nice mate keep it up

 

Sweet as fuck, love it

 

m8 that car is gonna be so fuckin sweet m8

 

my bruv has a mini rotting in the garden makes me start dreaming what could be

 

not this year i dont think but as soon as its done.
i built it for track days really but would like to see what id does on the strip.

 

dont dream mate do it. old minis are few now a days.

 

coming on nicely now