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Love this car. Very nice

Engine is progressing.

Timed the PH2 to 108.





Heads on roughly, yet to torque as i'm missing ARP washers on the studs.



Turbo



Ordered all my fittings for oil/water lines. Need to buy a flywheel for my RTS and it should be good to go.

Very neat

looking good Jonny, ive got the MED lightweight verto in my turbo and have had no issues with it.

What the mind can conceive the mini can achieve
MITP 2012 17.01 seconds 1/4 mile against "The Don"
MITP 2013 16.83 seconds 1/4 mile

Looks neat. Beltdrive because its more sillent or becaus it weighs less or more accurate?

you can do anything if you set your mind to it...
i rather blow it up winning than keep it together losing.

finish date set for project 1... march 2018

TM protractor is still proving to be useful then.

In the 13's at last!.. Just

Not updated for some time.

Fitted megajolt to my current engine to play around with it.



Knocked 550g of my rear drums.



Fitted RTS to turbo engine with a lightened standard flywheel.



Made up an oil drain.



Went to Brands hatch retro cars track day. Really enjoyed it, car was fun on track. Found a few issues to sort.





I also managed to get second in highly modified at London to Brighton.

Love this mini!
When are you hoping to get the turbo lump in and running?

My build thread..

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=542985

you always seem to go from no engine to complete engine

nice build man!

Planning to swap in over winter and carry out a few changes to save some weight on the front end.

Not to sure when though the 1380 now puts out a smidge over 100bhp and its driving very nice at the moment.

Took the car to LSMOC track day at goodwood. Was so much fun. Was nice to go round a track with some similar cars. Very happy with my driving and the car. I think i only had two people pass all day (supercharged k20 z car and a new cooper works).

The brakes took a hammering after getting them set up properly.





I did however have a duff alternator reg and killed the battery as i hadn't noticed.



I've made a few improvements.

Li-Ion battery, dropped 5.6kg from my Power V AMP race battery. It starts the car easily enough. I've bodged in a voltmeter to just to keep an eye on it.





Added a KAD ARB at 4.5kg total. Bit of a pain to fit as i had to move the tank but i hope it means i can soften up the rear and reduce body roll. Its a lovely bit of kit.

Edited by jonny f on 14th Aug, 2015.

The KAD ARB designed to be fitted without a subframe?

I'll be wanting one for mine, but didnt think anything was off-shelf available for that.

David.

Ah fair enough. Thanks.

Not sure how well my boot floor would stand up to it (or what remains of it) as I have a pretty large cut out and aluminium centre riveted in place.

to prevent drift, how about getting some collars with grub screws, independent from the nylon blocks, secure them to the bar and prevent the bar sliding across either direction.

David.

I've got some bits to stop it drifting. Just some rubber with a jubilee. I think that's what most cars have.

Thanks for the idea though.

I have the mini spares beam (but might swap it out to the KAD one as its about 12mm thinner, so be able to bring the wheel base back in a touch more)


And thats my boot floor, can see how its close to either edge and at the rear. Not sure how well something would mount around that area, even with spread plates.
A beam mounted ARB would be perfect, keep the rear end free and allow me to mount up my diffuser neater without encroaching with its mounts. Maybe if it was on the ouside face of the KAD beam or something, doubt they have anything designed up there. I'll have to give them a shout when I get round to it.

David.

They do one that bolts onto there rear beam. Its this one, although its fitted to a tdk one here.

My MITP went well with this lol.



Thanks to everyone for giving me a hand. Especially Simon for his tools and Oli for cracking the hub nuts etc.

I've taken it apart again and rebuilt it with a new cv.

That's Proper Fucked!!! don't worry about it mate, I have learnt from years gone by that, if you don't take it, you will need it! so now I have most stuff to rebuild the mk1 in the boot.

I have started posting on Instagram also my name on there is turbomk1golf

Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.

propper job !!

Yes i moved to the darkside

Instagram @jdm_brett

Is that a "new" CV or from a time when they made them by the tens of thousands?

Did you get home ok chief?

On 5th Oct, 2014 Shauna said:
What that's crazy, you go commando hahaha! How heavy is your helmet ?