69 pickup- v6 RWD
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hey guys hows it going? no recent updates i assume you been too busy to get on lol.

My small bore turbo project http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=473901

I think i am the only one that does not like this conversion just seems a waste of a pickup, still its not my car so my opinion does not count lol

Why is it a waste? Have you seen half the modded pickups?
Personally its compleatly different, somone pushing the boundrys that no one seems to have done. Knowing arron it will be used on the road not just locked up and trailored everywhere i just hope 15" wheels dont get put on and kept on 10-13" mini wheels

Drives
-Ford S-max Mk2 Ecoboost
-Rover 100 VVC #2 - track project

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Calm down Paul its only an opinion this is after all a public forum where opinions can be expressed!

Edited by wolfie on 25th Jul, 2011.

Yep it's all a matter of personal taste. I feel same as wolfie but it's not my car.

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

it wasn't the best pickup in the world and would have needed alot of work anyway. Nothing is ruined and all work can be reversed. After all if we never modified our cars the mini scene would never be as interesting as it is. Most of us with turbo's have but bulkheads which i know some of the hard core mini fans deem that ruins a car. I personaly like the unusual projects even if its not my thing it shows there are people out there thinking for themselves not just following the trends.

My small bore turbo project http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=473901

I wasn het up but i do see how i could be pertrayed, was writing it while pissed off at the peugeot as its a heap of shit and sounds like a tractor and keeps breaking its self like the bleed screw while driving amd dumping coolent everywhere lol.
Hows the 7port doing?

Drives
-Ford S-max Mk2 Ecoboost
-Rover 100 VVC #2 - track project

Searching is all you need on TurboMinis

Its doing better than your build and i have done nothing to it in months

Thing is to many pickups have been ruined by builders, farmers, grass track racers ect, over the years there have been a few pick ups with bike engines and earlier rover v8's so no i dont see this as pushing the boundries, i personally dont see the point in ruining another but then i hate shitty vauxhalls and am not a fan of engine swaps unless they look factory so i am bias anyway.

Edited by wolfie on 25th Jul, 2011.

As me and arron always say, its just a bit of metal shaped like a mini... its also arrons piece of metal shaped like a mini, so we will carry on doing what the fk we want tbh, lol.

not a huge amount of progress, just bought an OMEX 710 so kinda drained arrons budget for the time being. Got a rear hoop, rear legs and the subframe top mounts done though, and plates on the floor for the cage etc.

floor plate


another hole cut in the original pickup...


rear with top mounts, as its sitting at the moment really


from the back


getting there


will prob get some front legs welded in this weekend, floor bar, bar to the rear spaceframe and some triangulation down to the heelboard from the subframe mounts. All depends on time and materials really, busy times.

Cheers,

Al


- edit, its going on 13's so dont worry, not 15s! lol. 10's would keep the looks, but for high speed handling they are a waste of time.

Edited by alexcrosse on 27th Jul, 2011.

it looks like its coming along nicely i look forward to seeing it in the flesh. Alex i hope your getting something for your hard work. Are you teaching arron as you go coz you know he will only want to go do it again lol

My small bore turbo project http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=473901

Im tutoring arron yes, LOL! hes getting there, trying to get to the stage where I just do the welding and a bit of direction really as I've got my own car that needs to be ready for next years sprint season. Hes getting alot better though! Just looking forward to it being a running car so we can catch the end of the summer with it and then build a V6 with more exciting internals...

Edited by alexcrosse on 27th Jul, 2011.

Will you be putting a canvas tilt on it so that the secret is not let out until you gas it ?

Edited by MarkGTT on 27th Jul, 2011.

no point mark, if some people took 1 second away from their own ignorance to look into the vauxhall tuning community they might learn a thing or two...

Edited by alexcrosse on 27th Jul, 2011.

tbh i fully understand what Neil's saying,i get it.
i would have loved to restore it back to a nice original spec, but then i wouldnt have wanted to use it let alone turbo it,
thus making it a pointless investment of time and money just to one day in five years time sell it for £10,000

so what would have been the point? i dont belive there would have been one?

ive always wanted a quick mid engine car, so why not have that in a pickup,
and the engine choice just ended up being Vauxhall by Al forcing me....lol

the real trick was that i wasnt meant to have it out in the open for a while, or atleast a show,dyno day etc, as i plan to have t looking very simaler to howit used to many wouldnt have known and were in for a shock....:)

Edited by rubicon on 27th Jul, 2011.

Is the engine the SRi 170 nana ? or is it the GSi 198 nana?

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success

even better, MSD 210 nana :)

I worked there (MSD) doing the conversions.

All we did to the engine on the MKI GSi was swop 2 of the cams from the 3ltr in line unit, on the MKII GSi we swoped all four


The MKI had 192 nanas and the MKII had 198 nanas

The only other mod we did was fit a K+ N Filter and a back box thats it with regards to the engine.

The reason I asked was to say if it was the SRi V6 its easy to up grade to just short of the 200 mark.


We did a special for a Mr D. Warwick which had a 3 ltr bottom end with worked heads and cams that gave 278nanas. That one went well

Edited by turbocox on 28th Jul, 2011.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success

awesome, thanks for the info, tbh im hoping the GTR turbo's are going to up the power a bit,
any ideas on 'better' cams for turbo?
or anyway to lower comp ratio?
other than de-comp plates?

I'll Pm

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success

We'd know straight away you'd done something as it wouldn't be smoking it's tits of

been thinking about sorting the manifolds......
bare with me as in my head it makes sense.............



here's one of the flanges I had cut, mild as £££ was tight but il have them in stainless at some point,just cant at the min..

here's one with a few measurements bit shonky, but they work lol



now what I was thinkinhg is if I can get one with the right,or near right size, then why couldnt I re flange it?
I'm just using this as an example,


I know some may think it would just be better to make a manifold from scratch but its just not viable at the min, as I said its just thoughts at the moment,

another posabilty
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUDI-2-7-V6-A6-S...#ht_2515wt_1037

or skyline items?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NISSAN-SKYLINE-G...#ht_1761wt_1270