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Just a pic to show were my mini is at the moment been working on it for about a year on and off after blowing up the 998 engine that was in it, now going for a 1293 turbo. its my first mini project and im loving it. looking to use it for a fast road car and track day toy

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Edited by Rickus on 13th Dec, 2011.

welcome!,it will be more than a fast road car if you do it right!

they are very!! dangerouse in, in-eperienced hands, they bring enough exceleration to bear and will grenade you arse out ........be warned their not a Toy

Edited by BENROSS on 13th Dec, 2011.

i have noticed alot of people on here have got modified plenum chambers, are they customs built or are they availiable to buy?? im hoping it will be more than a toy. it has lightend and balenced crank, balenced rods, 10cc dish omega cast pistons, a polished and ported head with 30cc combustion chambers also going to be running a T3 piper cam, im still unsure on which distributor and coil to use though........

Welcome

get megajolt fitted 100 times better one of the best things I've bought for mine.

Craig

my mini van http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=448248

can anybody suggest best place to buy?? im also looking to buy a cross pin diff is there a company that makes good quality ones for a reasonable price, or a second hand one..... thanks for the advice so far though

Minispares x ping is good value

i was looking at the minispares one are they good quality as they are quite cheap??

the mega jolt although it would be nice also looks quite expensive is there any other options??

At the time i brought mine which was mid this year minispares were having a bit of trouble with there planet gears being poor quality for the X pin. Theve probably resolved the issue now maybe just a bad batch?

I brought the casing etc and found four good condition original ones instead of buying from them. Works just fine, might be a bit cheaper too.

Matt W

ok brill, does this mean the standard diff can be converted into a cross pin?? is it a case of just buying the centre piece and the two extra gears??

No it cant be.

I Brought the x pin diff, but it doesnt come with the gears as far as im aware. Well the one i brought didnt.

So instead of buying four gears from minispares i used four good original ones. Which may be what most people do anyway.

Matt W

ah right i see i been looking at this one on mini spares web site

http://minispares.com/Product.aspx?ty=pb&pid=35941&title=

i might be wrong i thought this was a complete unit ready to fit your crown wheel to??

That's the one, you just need to put some output shafts in it from your existing diff.

proberly seems like im asking some pretty silly questions lol, i also have a piper T3 cam brought from MED has anybody on here used this cam?? is it good??

Found this on the search:

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=4005

If it is the same as an Avonbar phase 2 then it will be a good cam.

thanks for the link Seems like alot of help on here which is nice. Is there any pics on here of the way people have plummbed in there intercoolers and also oil cooler and pressure gauge

Im using a 266 cam in my engine although its still in a box in my in parents house

Anyhow useful contribution from me would be: you can get the megajolt setup for ~250 if you know where to look i have the trigger wheel, ht leads and plugs left to buy and its cost me about 185 inc postage so far.

If you still dont want megajolt i have a full mk1 metro turbo ignition setup for sale:
With Brand new:
Dizzy cap
Rotor arm
Plugs
Almost new silicon Ht leads (the blue ones that are like £40 on ebay)
All there in a box just as i bought it

Edited by Craigie-B on 15th Dec, 2011.

how much are you asking for the ignition set up?? did you just find the bits seperatly??

i have the fixed type duplex timing chain kit, can this be used to time in my T3 piper cam accurately?? can i just put it dot to dot??

Time it in dot to dot and then measure how far it is away from your target setting, then buy the appropriate offset woodruff key.

There's a guide on how to do it somewhere...

Thank you for your help once again, just need to find my self a DTI to use now , should i be able to get the timing pretty much exact using the offset keys??

its my first engine build so abit worried about messing something up and it going bang straight away

yep. It sounds complicated, but once you've done it a couple of times it becomes very straight forward.

Thank you. Im gonna try borrow a Dti from work to have a go :)

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=4769 heres a link to toms guide theres some on youtube aswell i did mine not so long ago and rechecked and rechecked just to make sure it was right. for intercooler plumbing i think theres a topic called engine bays and theres loads of build threads to show what guys have done. if you cant borrow one theres some cheap on ebay wich are good enough to use http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/0-1-DIAL-GAUGE-D...=item4cfaf50a18 . as for megajolt apart from the unit its self you can find most of it in the scrapyards or from ebay and im sure youll be able to get a second hand unit to save some cash

Edited by wng691s clubby on 18th Dec, 2011.

Done now needs redoing lol

Thank you for that, could you tell me what bits I need for megajolt? As I do bot have a clue

Cheers for the other info this place is great :)

coil pack, leads, eadis 4 unit, megajolt, vr sensor all early 90s ford. sensor bracket, trigger wheel

Edited by wng691s clubby on 18th Dec, 2011.

Done now needs redoing lol