Miglia engined road mini - slowly getting there
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Are they from an RX7? sure i knew someone who had similar headrests on there seat n was from a Mazda

David.

Is that a panther black Fez? I'm planning to get one of them in March. 1.6 Diesel Zetec.

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

Its dark blue, not sure what its actually called. And it is a 1.6 Tdci Zetec.

Nope not RX7

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

Well compared to my MG ZR yes - but in reality no it ain't too bad. Its slow off the line but once its into 3rd it starts to fly along, it'll comfortably sit at 80 on the motorway and i've had it up to ninety but that was starting to feel quick.

Dont get me wrong its a nice car, comfortable quiet economical and cheap to run, but it isn't exciting to drive - I have minis for that!

Are the seats from a SMART car?
Do we get a prize for guessing correctly?

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

Looking good, recognise the seats but don't know where from.

Are the axel stand points just tubes welded into the inner and outer sills, or do they tie into the cage legs aswell?

Ok last few weeks i haven't made a lot of progress, ben working a lot, so this weekend i did a bit more, but i wasn't really in the mood.

So anyway, i have added a bit of bracing to the roll cage, mounted the A panels and trial fitted the front end.

I seem to have cocked up the passenger A panel as the fit against the front end is rubbish. However the fit on the drivers side seems to be excellent with only minor trimming needed.

the bonnet also fits nicely and again only needs minor trimming at the front.

Also decided that i cant really afford to buy the carbon fibre stuff i'm after so i'll probably try and make it. I've done a fair bit of fibreglassing in the past so it cant be much trickier can it?

anyway pics:

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Yet another few months have passed and i've just managed to get a bit more done. I took some photos but left my camera back at the garage.

I put in an order for stuff from rally design last week and now i'm fitting it all up. I need to get all this done before it gets painted so i know it all fits perfectly and i wont have to butcher my beautiful freshly painted shell to fit everything.

So today i have trial mounted my master cylinders, these took quite a lot of work as they are Wilwood ones with remote reservoirs, but now they fit perfectly and have excellent brake pedal travel. The pedal box was also modified to shave a bit of weight but i haven't compromised its strenght. I now just need to change the angle of the clutch pedal to slightly improve the pedal travel.

I also made a bracket for the remote reservoirs which is welded on.

I also purchased a varley red top 25 battery which i've trial fitted into the seat cross member. once the seats in i wont have access to it so i'll be fitting anderson plugs to enable charging when required.

And finally i welded a new bracket for the top engine steady, i'll be using a rose jointed arrangement rather than the standard bar.

I now need to put in an order for a load of metal so i can finish the seat frame, parcel shelf and the gearchange tower. then finally it might be ready for painting.

pictures to follow tomorrow.

Pictures as promised.

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Had to modify the clutch pedal today, now it sits level with the brake.

Also made a neat bracket to hold the battery down.

Then spent about 2 hours sitting staring trying to plan how the plumbing for the brakes is going to work. This is a very important job as its really expensive stuff so i need to get it right first time!

Anyway enjoy the pics, probably be another few months before i get anymore done.

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Looking very good

What size brake master cylinder are you going for?

I put a 7/8th on mine but it is horrid

its a .625, if i dont like it its easy to swap to a different bore

Looking good.

What are the boxes on the inner sill for?

Also would it not be better to mount the brake & clutch reservoirs on the drivers side of the car?

they are the reinforcement for the sill stands.

the drivers side would have been better but i have the oil catch tank going there, so there wouldn't be room to run the breather hose.

behind the reservoirs i'm having a small washer bottle for the windscreens. its all going to be a tight squeeze.

So yet again another few months have passed.

I took this week off and managed to get on with some stuff.

Here we go, i managed to get the seat frame in, see pics below:

From this point i mounted the seats, this took about a day to get right as i wanted them to slide perfectly and fit through the rollcage, you'll notice i had to modify the crossmember to enable the handle to go forward at the correct height.

The passenger seat will be mounted slightly higher so will not need the crossmember to be altered.

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Once the seats were in, i could start positioning everything else. I started with the gear change. I had to make a tower for this, which took quite a while and is still not finished.

It will have loads of punch and flare holes, it will also contain a lot of the cars electronics, the main kill switch, the switch panel and the fuse boxes will all be crammed into this. It'll be quitre a squeeze!

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From that point i could do the steering wheel position, unfortunately i left my camera at home and had to use my phone so the pics are bad.

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I really dont like the standard steering position, so it now has a tube in place of the lower dash bar and from this the column can be attached, then via the use of a couple of universal joints i can get a steering position i like.

The dash i stuck in there in the old one, dont worry i wont be using it as it looks crap. just wanted to see what it fitted like.

So far, i'm amazed at how comfy it is to sit in, the wheel and gear change seem to be in the perfect position and should be really nice to use.

I like the idea of mounting all the switches etc on the gear tower, I might pilfer that one day

Looking good. I like your gear stick....

hehe, the 'gear stick' is actually my torch, i just stuck it in there as i was playing with different heights for the stick.

it will eventually look like that, should be a custom billet alloy one, just need to call in a favour to get it made as i dont have a lathe yet.

Got home from work early today so i managed to get some stuff done.

So here are the pics, i was playing with the angles for the steering column.

I dont like the standard position, i've gotten soft and like the modern car steering position, so i've modified the standard column with a few universal joints. I also removed and lowed dash rail and welded a bar from which i can mount the new column.

Also worked out where to cut the hole for the kill switch, so that was done as well.

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