dutch zeemax mini turbo 1975 LHD
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The rear wheel arches are done now. With a little sound deadening and some skay.

New brakelines are finished...






Finally starting with the engine now!

The rods are balanced and got some bushes for the floating pins.
Arp bolts and they have been line honed

The main caps also have been line honed...



Now i've started with the gearbox. It needs to be grind out a little to fit the arp studs..



the gearbox is verry thin on that point!
First i fitted the rings but it was far to high...the resuld was a big hole in the gearbox housing...
So it's needs to be welded up a little



The rings are off now and the studs on the outher caps are shortend a little.

the gearbox is fixed and welded up.




Next job is to paint the engine black!

Now its time to build the engine and gearbox!

Oilpump and kent 266 Cam installed.
Balanced crank and conrods. Centre stap and line bored. All ARP...



Dlc coated followers



Bmw oil jets

The gearbox

Sc Clubman gearset, x-pin diff, all new bearings, kad pinion support and a windagetray





I'm using helical dropgears with all new bearings and bushes

nice work ! done anything to the head ?

That sir, is not rust, it is the progressive mass reduction system

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The head is std. Only new lead free valve seats. And refurbished....
Its something i planned for later on.

Next job is putting it all togetter and timing the camshaft.




As i said i'm going for helical drops
New bushes and bearings. And hopefully corect shimd out




Next thing is the steel flyewheel. Its Also balanced and pre verto as you can see. I'm using the orange diagram
And 3 straps instead of 2.



The final result. I've changed the oilfilter housing for a MED one...

Lovely build, I like all the little touches that neaten things up.

Next step is putting the engine back in...




Job done! Now i can start connecting it. I've started with the driveshafts, gear shifter, starter etc etc the normal stuff...



The next job for me was the intercooler. I bought a cossie 2wd to put on top. But didn't realize That it had to be modified to fit my engine bay.
So i chose ànother one. A Bmw mini cooler to fit in the zeemax frontbumper. And the pipes running treu the wheel arches....




I'll pull à heat resistent material over it later on. So the radiator don't heat it up to much....
Maybe its better to fit a front mount radiator later on to....



The otherside was a bit harder to fit!
The powerbrake bracket has to be grind out allot to fit the pipework.
This where i am at this point....

I want to pull this over the intercooler pipe on th rad Side. To keep the tempratur as low as possible



But this one is to small so it wont fit. Ill need to change this one for one bigger..

wow. if money were no object...

top work

Low boosting for now.

Thanks!!!

The other side of the intercooler is finished. It was a real struggle with the wiper motor to make is fit.



The washer bottle, coil pack and fresh air intake. Its a tight fit!



Next i've put everything in place to make sure it fits!



Only have to find a place for an oil catch tank

That looks great!
Goed bezig!!

Dazed and Confused....

This is a real neat car! Love the attention to detail its like a factory finish, like a 'modern day ERA'? Keep up good work

only thing id be conserned with is catching the intercooler when hitting pot holes ect but what a great build keep it up

Done now needs redoing lol

Nice compliments! thanks a lot..

Yes the intercooler is on dangerous place. But it's in the bumper so if i hit it, it ruin my bumper to...

The hi-lo's are also compleetly screwed in on the picture....not the drive modus...