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What's the longest your car has bee in one piece!!!

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

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Always with the fingers ay Simon 😉

Not sure wil, it's all in the never end quest.... For speed and lightness..

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Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.

Looking good!! Will be good to see it back together again? What do you think it's going to weigh??

Matt W

O mate, it's not looking good at all lol, not sure mate, I would like to get a low 500s. But we will see lol.

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Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.

Well after 4 gear boxes and no joy, Andy came to the rescue.

So two days work on it and the results are good so far! I have some more work to do on it before it's done but I am happy with it so far





Thanks simon.

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Good work

Thanks rob, it's just boring lol.

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Looking good. I keep eying up bits of engine block to hack off

All in good time mate. Lol.

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Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.

Awesome saving mate, you'll be needing to strap the mini down to stop it floating away soon!

Is this new weightloss or is what ya existing casing already had done?

No Dave, this is a all new case. As I don't plan to strip the box that's on the car just for the case. As this time around I am going to retire the JK box.

When I start the rebuild I will weigh all the parts and run a list, as I am looking at remaking a lot of parts this time. So it should give a true ish weight of the car.

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Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.

No sorry, i mean hadnt your existing case already had this treatment?

Yes mate, I did it some time ago.

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The section of box the oil pick up bolts too.. can you not loose half that?


Looks good mate

Edited by Brett on 3rd Jan, 2016.

Yes i moved to the darkside

Instagram @jdm_brett

Well it's up date time lol.

I can't get photo bucket to work very well

So I have been doing lots of stuff todo with the rebuild and trying to improve little bits as I go, and also lose more weight as and where I can 😄 So here's some pics of bits I am happy to show at the min 😜

First up was a bit of a tool upgrade, I got a welder about 6 months ago and I had not even seen if it worked, I used It for a day and worked out what was worng with it, so I got to work on it.

First up was to sort out the earth wire, the one on there was around 4 ft long. So I swapped it for a 3m removable one



Next up was the bent wheels on the back, it was just doing my head in looking at it, sooooooo





Ok car stuff, I been giving my self an hr night or so to make small bits here and there,








Next up was the steering colum, as the one I had had lots of play in it and it used to bug me, so I was thinking of ways to sort this sooooo I had a dig around in the lockup, to see what I had down there, and the only mk1 column I had was very dented from over clamping soo



A little bit of heat


I made a knocking block and slide it down to where the dent was and tapped it with a hammer, and got all the dents out, then I chopped the top off a 2nd one I had so now I have one with a bush at both ends, so no play 😊.. And still looks ok ish..


Somting that has been playing on my mind for a wile (sad I know) was the seat belts I was thinking that there was just two much shit on them, buckles Backed up with buckles. So I went to a place down the road from me, that has some of the staff from Britax still working there, they was super helpful finding what was the lightest way to go.



From that to this


Also I had some bits remade in Ti but I am sure most have seen them lol.

Also I went to auto sport and seen a pic of brett at uni

Edited by madmk1 on 23rd Jan, 2016.

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Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.

good progress so far mate

how much weight did you save on the welders running gear?

cant believe you took that pic lol

Yes i moved to the darkside

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si i have a for a water pump template i drew to scale you could have borrowed and just cut out and messed around with. granted you might not have ate the fingers so not as fun but :)

Sorry there has not been many updates lately, this flesh eating disease I picked up in Kenya has been kicking the shit out of me! As its been infecting my white blood cells, lungs, jonts , bones, and leaving big holes in my skin! And is just making me feel super week, So I have zero fucks to give the mk1 at the min!

I would post some pics but it's not the sort of thing most would like to see...

All being well it's going to the coach builder at the start of April so stuff should start moving fast from there.

Simon.

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Get well soon mate, sounds rough

I seriously doubt it!

All the best Simon, sorry to hear about your troubles

Please god don't post a photo, that sounds super grim! Hope it's not too painful and your on the mend soon!

Edited by Shauna on 13th Feb, 2016.

They don't die, they just get faster!

ooo ehhh.. fuck kenya!!!!

get well soon si!!