My old boy, 1968 mkII 1380cc 110bhp NA
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I never did post any kind of build to my old Fella KAZ here so i might aswell start now,

He's a 1968 mkII mini, irish, not an import,
When i bought him from a friend (Miniireland) he was in not too bad condition, the engine, i was told was seized so that got my mind thinking of bigger things immediately, namely a 1380cc motor!
i found out afterwards when i pulled the head off that it was just a blown head gasket! if only i'd done that first! :lol:
the bodywork was in good condition apart from a flakey paint job that had been done previously,
so once i got the car i started getting in the long list of parts and believe me, it was very long indeed!
basically i had every part in the engine replaced with new uprated parts, a straight cut gearbox, omega pistons, new uprated crankshaft, webber 45 dcoe, all the expensive bits,
then he got a set of KAD 4pots, new subframe, suspension, braided brake lines, etc,

then eventually after a year and a half of just sitting outside my house i started work on him,
no fancy garages or anything like that, just out on the side of the road with help from mates for the heavy parts!
this was his first incarnation,







he came with a dashboard from a Dolomite sprint so i decided to leave that in as it looked quite good,

Edited by Macker on 6th Mar, 2014.

one or two pictures of the initial build,
Sorry I don't have any of the engine build but I hadn't a working camera then

Edited by Macker on 6th Mar, 2014.

then disaster!
the night before i was due to go to carrick on suir the engine died on me,
pulled it apart that night to find that the block had cracked between 2 & 3 cylinder, one scrap block!
you cant see it that well but their is a small grey line at the thinnest part of the cylinder wall that only comes down about 8mm, quite hard to see but i know exactly where it is!


so out came the engine again!
got a new block from england and started again,


it was really cold out!
Thanks to my Dad for the Bovril

by this stage he's got huge spotlights on the front as you can see,
but thats not the end,
he then had a stage 5 cylinder head fitted,
which............ turned out to be scrap!

so after a lot of head scratching and a year or so of my mini sitting in the basement in work not moving i took him to Paul Hickey engineering,
Paul stripped him apart to find one or two other interesting things which have all been replaced thank god!

finally, he is having a Megajolt ignition system fitted just to make me feel better and to be more precisely tunable,



so at the moment KAZ is 1380cc with a straight cut gearbox, new 4pin diff, new 286 full scatter cam, stage 2/3 cylinder head with 31 x 37 valves, running a webber 45, and a Megajolt ignition system, and thats just the short list :lol:

He's back!....................and he wants tarmac!



*edit*
He now runs a Swiftune ATB diff instead of the 4 pin, also he has a different cylinder head which is closer to a stage 5
He now puts out 110bhp, which is exactly what I was aiming for, not bad for a non turbo!

Edited by Macker on 2nd Feb, 2014.

then had a job done on the old paint work after a little shunt

as anyone on the MTM 2011 saw his new paint is nice but their are a few bits that I'm in no way happy with,
He looks fine from a distance though,

one or two from when I took him out on Mondello park race track

Some in car video from the day aswell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZd5OcZG2rw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLs_ThuBBrY

One or two of my mini on my wedding day,

my mate Gareth drove my mini for the day and I think he frightened one or ten people along the way :lol: , he even held up traffic at roundabouts so that the whole convoy could get through together,

Kenny (Another mate, runs Autoshine) had KAZ looking gleaming for the day too!




A HUGE thank you to the guys that brought their minis along for our big day

A few more from Mondello park race track

one or two more in car videos from Mondello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFsNeLPEGVQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfy6Kfoq4ZY

Looks great. Thank god you got rid of those stupid spot-lights

Really nice looking car you have there Macker!

Dazed and Confused....

That's a nice looking car. What are the wheels on the later pic's?

Another triumph for Kerbside Motors !

I like the dash - how much modifying did you have to do to fit it?

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.p...tid=469104&fr=0

Looks great.

+1 for removing those lights!

Edited by Macker on 3rd Feb, 2014.

Engine changes in the street - that takes me back!

Very nice. Dont like the arial though, makes it look like a dodgem car