Right, here is my second project on the go. I recently bought 2 minis, and plan to make one good one. My dad kept lots of parts from his old car, and I have been given a full roll cage, sump guard, rear subframe, bigger cooper s fuel tank, and a few expensive engine goodies such as forged rockers, Cosworth 73.5mm pistons and Cooper S rods.

Here are some pics from when I viewed it, but they aren't very good so I will upload some tomorrow when I pick the two cars up.

Oh and one is a minter shell, and one is a rust bucket. But I am keeping both.



Will be selling this fancy stage 2 exhaust for a simple RC40

13x6 Superlights



That's the donor shell. Here's the minter:






Update tomorrow. But that's all for now folks

 

Looking forward to seeing more love the old minis even more when they're projects

 

Cheers, I snatched it up as soon as he said he was selling up. Can't wait to get to work

 

Good stuff, will deffo keep an eye here, deffo going road rally again then?

 

Yep, she is going to be my road rally car. I can't justify using the Sierra. Too much effort gone in to it just to ruin it. I will make sure this is built properly too. I already have most of the stuff to build the car. Just need to buy the front panels and the consumables you would use on any project.

 

Cool, so rally this, but keep the sierra for sentimental value

 

Yep. Bang on Greg

 

Fair play, you got one ...or two,, in the end lol....

I do like them alloys, theyre not standard minilites are they ?

 

Two Matt in the end lol. They are deep dish superlights. About Ł500 new

 

Whats are your plans for the engine ? An old school cooper rep or somthing else ?

 

Engine wise is standard for a year, then a david vizard spec 1380 or 1430 with forged rockers, pistons and rods, a HIF44 carb on a heated metro bored out inlet manifold, ported, polished and gas flowed standard head, with rim flo valves metro turbo A+ block, straight cut drop gears and box, metro cam or a mild kent cam. My dad had one in his metro rally car and never broke. It was always somehting else

 

^^ sounds like a good spec ,not going for twin carbs then ?

 

Nah, my dad said he had a twin carb setup and he said a single bigger one did just as good a job as 2 smaller ones.

 

Hows about two HIF 44s !!!!

 

Lol, now that would be fun!!

 

Update. Got one car back. Im selling up everything apart from the white car, and going original. Decided i will use a throw away car for rallying will get picks up at the weekend as i am picking the other one up then.

 

You like your projects matey

 

Tidy, bring on the pics!!!

 

Haha, I do Glenn. But only because of the mentality of 'Money is a tool, there to be used.'

Picking the car up tomorrow

 

Well, this hasn't been updated in a while. Plans have changed for the more now, it is going to be either 1.6 or 2.0l now. Contemplating weather to put a red top vauxhall lump in it or a vtec. Or possibly a 1380 a series. But I got the red shell back, and it is in naff condition, so next year I will replace the roof, sills etc and eventually get the cage I have welded in. The colour cheme is going to be white & lime green. It will also be a track day car only, as even a modified normal mini is uninsurable for me. I am going to sell loads of bits, then pay for the new lot going in. Already refurbishing a new subframe, and hopefully it will be painted next year, although I aint gonna hold my breath.

I will get some pics up soon, just dont have any tbh

 

As they stand...

 

Didn't see the track day idea coming, that means you ain't got a road rally car , clearly you are going to need another project to fill that gap. How about an escort

 

Inspiration

 

I dont know, maybe I will have to navigate for you when you get an escort?

 

Green one looks great

Good luck with what ever you decide

 

Cheers, it will have lime green somewhere in the equation though haha

 

There's an idea, not exactly a short term plan though

 

Doesn't matter though.Will be a while till I can navigate, so I might aswell take the time to learn.

 

Awsome project bud, good luck with it! Will be following thread.

 

Cheers, just making a shopping list atm, and selling lots of stuff to pay for it, hopefully have rid of the engine by next month too

 

me and my boy ar restoring one at mo just started it ill pop some piccies up next time were working on it

 

Sweet, get em started young Saying that I am young

 

Would like a mini again always wanted to do a seamless one with flip front and metro turbo lump ,like the pic of the green one very nice !

 

These old minis are cool.

 

Good to see another mini surviving a rusty old grave, have you checked out 16v mini web site plenty of honda and vauxhall minis on there might give you some good ideas.

Regards andy

 

 

Unsure wether to make it a rally car as people reckon they will screw rules so that it is 1400 and under in a few years.

 

Thus making this very competative. And it will be cheap to build

 

Rebuilding the rear subby atm. Painted the lcb after wire wheeling it, and panels coming on thursday, so will get it all welded up sharpish
pics later

 

Wee update on this. Did a load of welding to this, bought a welded up shell ready done, with a rear subframe, so will sell this, and paint the new one. It's limited edition too