Project part 2, new jdm route.
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Bolting it together is the fun part, made good progress

13.95 1/4 mile on a 2.95 fd. Carnt be that hard to beat!

Yes your not wrong there. The wiring will be the worst job i think but im determined to do it myself after a little research into electrics.

Found my first downside tho... My 130 cooper s binacle wont be much use, which is a basard :( but cant dwell on it. Going to try and do a subtle honda centre clock arangement.

You bike carbing it or using the honda's injection system :)?

Honda all the way

Well rocker cover is refurbed...



Looking ok, hoping the paint will matt a bit as it gets older as was going for a tandard type r look, overall fairly happy with it. Now to clean the rest of the engine. :)

Edited by Rick.SPI on 3rd Oct, 2012.

Not usually, they use bike throttlebodys and keep the honda stuff but run a mappable ecu like hondata.

Needs itb's ...


Good work so far mate.

Need driveshafts and a manifold before itbs sadly or i would get some. Target for now is to get it running standard and well then next year have a play around and get some power from it :)

Being realistic the standard 170 will be safest for now aswell so i can get used to it as the last engine i had was the standard cooper lump.

Got some good pregress this weekend...

Decided to get to the front end welding And taking the rot out. Decided the pnly way to get at all was to cut the scuttle, the upside is i have got rid of the cold air vents in the process so very happy :)















That was saturday afternoon the sunday afternoon i made te closing panels, the window seem and slapped sone primer on for now just to keep the metal safe till next weekend:





Jizered the worst off the engine:



And the whole weekends progress.. Like to stand back and see what ive acheived with a cuppa before i take off so heres how it now stands:

Its not the neatest, but its rot free there now so im happy.

Great job on the scuttle. Mine needs some work, wish I had the confidence/skill to do that!

Alex this is the first time ive welded on my mini, so there was not alot of skill there lol, for me it was a case of why go for half measures. Its not as bad as you think when you get stuck in. Alot of people would have done alot better job than me. You just have to go fot it and see what happens :)

Edited by Rick.SPI on 7th Oct, 2012.

Right an update :)

Well, was chilly this weekend so ended up plumbing in some heat:



Filling and sanding:



A generous amount of seam sealer:



Came in handy for warming up tins before painting aswell:



Scuttle painted, its not bodyshop standard but im happy with how its come out, theres a few iffy bits but generally it came out good:



After laquer:





Then i painted the rest in underbody paint to protect it nicely:



Getting there. Waiting on my tower bolt from minisport so i can bolts it together:



Loving the colour match to the carbon, you eont know untill you look close up which was the plan:



Not going to be able to use my cooper 130 clocks as mentioned before :( but i recon i can get the honda clocks in a faily nice and subtle way so its not as bad...



:) its nice being in controll of you own project :)

Looking good rick! I think i got a tech drawing on laptop for making the drive shafts up if you want it drop me a PM

Cheers for the offer mate, would be handy but havnt got any access to lathes to use the drawings :(

Good proggress there mate, well done

13.95 1/4 mile on a 2.95 fd. Carnt be that hard to beat!

Id love a v-tec in mine, revs so high.

Can i ask where did you get the scuttle ends from, seems alot easier than cutting out the lot.

Ta
Scud

Cheers eden.

Scud i didnt use replacement scuttle ends, i cut the old ones off and they where rot free bar the lips, so cut tr lips off, made some closing panels from some sheet and rewelded those to the cut down scuttle ends. Its not the "proper" way i guess but its worked well.

One step forward...



Two steps back. Well maybe half a step back.

Tries fitting the windscreen, when puting the bead in and pushing the windscreen from the other side i cracked it.... We learn from our mistakes. My mistake was rushing and not buying the proper tool.

Oh well, onwards and upwards.

Tower bolts have finally been sent out so subby in this week, and if i have all the bits engine either this weekend or next week.

holly shit thats gonna go like shit off a stick bro, nice one.

Nice getting well stuck in there.

I run a supercharger and I don't care the TB is on the wrong side.
VEMS + 12 PSI + Liquid Intercooler = Small Bore FUN!

Yes its all going well. With it being in my own hands its nice to be controll of it getting done unlike before,

Ryandalby it probably wont touch a turbo mini as the gearing will be wrong for a start, but i cant justify spening out on a fd on a non lsd box

Ahh gutted about wind screen dude buyt wont be long till your flyign along the back roads