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that atb looks tasty. good progress mate.

Well done Nick, good progress
Shane

Look forward to the results quick progress!
It's a nice feeling fitting the quif! Pure gearbox porn :)

cheers dudes :)

i didn't want to fit the diff, far too porno to be hidden away!


last nights efforts:




can't do much now apart from fit a few ancillaries at the front as i'm still waiting for me fecking turbine flange to make a downpipe

Get rid of that feckin sticker

Looking good that

-MINI CLUBMAN 1380 TURBO-

Getting there now slowly, MOT is booked for 9am saturday so fingers crossed it might go ok...

Flange turned up yesterday so me and kean made the elbow last night and got a few of the ancillaries bolted up.

Managed to squeeze a quick hour in this afternoon between jobs and got the drivers seat fitted. not happy with the subframe at all, needs to be lower and further back but it's not stopping me getting it MOT'd so i can sort it the weekend.

Ant's checked all the wiring for me tonight (not sure if that is wise, lol ) and all lights, gauges, indicators etc are good to go.

Had to adjust the subframe slightly to get a bit more downpipe clearance and re-engineer my actuator arm a bit.

Looking good for first fire up tomorrow night with any luck.

Big thanks as usual to Kean and Anton and to our new recruit Paul who's a lurker on here i do believe.

Nearly there, still got a shit sticker on though.

probably worth a bit now morspeed are no more...

Eh?? his website was of for a while, but he is still traiding...

scrub that duff info from TMF, should have knwon better really...

http://www.theminiforum.co.uk/forums/index...t=165&start=165

Is this rumour mongering or has Morspeed gone under?

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

He's still traiding! That type of thread is why I don't bother with TMF very often

Well she runs, fired up on the 3rd turn of the key!

Had a small issue with a burst fuel hose at the reg. forgot to bleed the heater tap so got a massive air lock and lots of steam but sorted now just hope it didn't do any damage. got the gear selector box thing put back together arse backwards so got no gears at first but thats cured aswell now.

Just the usual pre-mot rust check tomorrow night and get the seat mounted in a nicer position and it should be good to go...

Tis a bit grubby at the minute but i'll clean it up when i know i don't need to mess under there anymore.



left the grille ends off incase the headlight aim is out.

good effort on this Nick, and good luck with the MOT

Well done. I like your expensive mounting bracket for the radiator expansion tank lol

Hope you took that spanner out too

I love how well the 2WD Cossie cooler fits in there.

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

good luck with the mot.

Well done dude... what was the gear issue?

can you use a normal cw&p with that Lsd?

shes alive:) Hope all goes ok for the MOT

-MINI CLUBMAN 1380 TURBO-

the high quality header tank bracket has been in there since i did the original swap, that tank was only supposed to be a temp thing till i got an ally one but it's never been a priority. Can't beat big re-useable cable ties

almost left that spanner in there, didn't notice it till last night.

Off for the MOT in a couple of hours, had an emergency welding repair to do on the floorpan last night, glad i spotted it before this morning.
Almost happy with how the seats mounted now, harness is in, clutch bled and its a lot nicer.

Fingers crossed i make it down the MOT station with no problems.