my 1293 mini now with some pics
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to be honest ive been on the site for ages just never had chance to put anything up. this is how she looked before ive had her resprayed. and ill put pics up of how shes starting to look now. cheers all.

Edited by kelvg on 3rd May, 2012.

is there any reason to why my pictures havent gone on ? ive gone on manage my attachment and pressed upload photo but nothing seems to be happening ? got to be honest im not the best on computers.

Edited by kelvg on 26th Apr, 2012.

i use photobucket and upload pictures to there and then copy and paste the img code on here.

one day boost will be mine!

Ok mate I'll try it that way cheers

this is my old mini not turbo'd .

looks good.
like the idea of the rad in the boot out the way but whats it like in traffic?
is the fan going constantly?

nice cars; what was the reasoning behind putting the rad in the boot?

to be honest it was fine because its got the external water pump aswell. and i used to have a switch i turned on or off but im changing it so i comes on automatically i think so i dont forget to turn it on.

rob it was in the boot when i brought it but the reason he did it was for the intercooler at the front. only thing the guy did was he wasnt bothered by how it looked and the pipe work was awful so i new when i started to do the bodywork i was going to make it look far neater.

that answers that then! I first looked at the photos and though the copper pipe in the car was the fuel line!

nice but a diffrent train of thought

some more progress.

not sure i'd like the expansion tank inside the car

not sure i would want any hot water pipes junctions header tanks ect inside the car

Brave man, cant the header go in the boot?

It was like it when I got the car so didn't see a problem. I'm just making it look neater than it did. And only thing bad about having the pipes in there is it gets rather warm.

And no can't get it in the boot as it will sit too low. It was something I looked at.

What about a similar sort of height in the boot with an access hole in the parcel shelf? Was the header there before? If you run into any issues head gasket etc there will be a load of steam coming to attack you.

Yh was in the same position mate but in a plastic tank which was awful. And it's over heated since I've had it because I forgot to turn the fan on and all it did was go out from the rad.

Looking good there and i also like the different approach to cooling. As others have commented, I would possibly rethink about having the expansion tank within the car itself. I thought about this with my car but had advice from many car builders that it could pose a danger to the occupants of the car if anything went wrong.

wow impressive

arches on and trimmed down just got to have them painted.