rayward
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the mini!!!
finally in the garage, a new project
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Ray
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Mark G
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 03:46 PM |
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looks ideal.
good luck
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Humbug
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 03:47 PM |
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hmmmm! lovely seats! Can I have them for my Locost?
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mr henderson
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 03:49 PM |
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Which bits will you be keeping?
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jacko
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 03:50 PM |
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Rust bucket
I will get rid of it for you if you like Ray 
That looks like a very good project keep us all up to date with this one
Graham 
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speedyxjs
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 03:53 PM |
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How much did you get that for?
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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Omni
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 04:06 PM |
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Looks like you and me might be up to the same plan ;-) What you gonna do with yours????
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Stuart_B
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 04:09 PM |
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nice mini. looks like everyone wants a mini at the moment, as that is what i am looking for as well as i have finshed my indy. good luck what ever you
are doing.
stuart
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Danozeman
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 04:10 PM |
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I hope your gonna leave them seats in!!!
Dan
Built the purple peril!! Let the modifications begin!!
http://www.eastangliankitcars.co.uk
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rayward
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 05:17 PM |
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cheers fellas,
got a poll going on what to do engine/
drive wise but to be honest i reckon its gonna be rear (bike)engined rear wheel drive a la Z cars ( or maybe home done and cheaper)
as for the price errrr £0. was it worth it???
been stood 10 years or so since the engine siezed is pretty solid , ( for a mini anyway)
just gotta love the 70's brown interior
Ray
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Stuart_B
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 05:33 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by rayward
cheers fellas,
got a poll going on what to do engine/
drive wise but to be honest i reckon its gonna be rear (bike)engined rear wheel drive a la Z cars ( or maybe home done and cheaper)
as for the price errrr £0. was it worth it???
been stood 10 years or so since the engine siezed is pretty solid , ( for a mini anyway)
just gotta love the 70's brown interior
Ray
that is a great price to pay, i would like one at that price.
about the z car conversion but homemade, have you got any infomation about doing yourself(homemade) project. as i want to do one for a project but z
cars ar expensive.
thanks
stuart
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rayward
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 05:56 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Stuart_B
quote:
Originally posted by rayward
cheers fellas,
got a poll going on what to do engine/
drive wise but to be honest i reckon its gonna be rear (bike)engined rear wheel drive a la Z cars ( or maybe home done and cheaper)
as for the price errrr £0. was it worth it???
been stood 10 years or so since the engine siezed is pretty solid , ( for a mini anyway)
just gotta love the 70's brown interior
Ray
that is a great price to pay, i would like one at that price.
about the z car conversion but homemade, have you got any infomation about doing yourself(homemade) project. as i want to do one for a project but z
cars ar expensive.
thanks
stuart
plan is to cut out the backend to the z cars dimensions, buy a 6 point cage and add/remove bits as nescessary to let me mount the engine + rear
running gear
not sure what to do regards rear suspension yet, could go with sierra diff, uprights etc but not to keen on having different pcd wheels front and
rear, i have seen a part built one that uses mini front uprights mounted in the back using one off wishbones which i quite liked the look of,
Ray
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quinnj3
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 05:56 PM |
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If you are unsure about how to go about converting the mini take a look at the book 'How to build a motorcycle-engined racing car'. Very
good info on suspension design and setup which can be applied to any car.
my aim is to build my own locost wether it takes me a week or 10 years to get started, i'm sure i will sometime
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froggy
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 06:08 PM |
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ive gone for de dion and five link in mine and it works fine, ive still got the jig to build a de dion its adjustable for track and you can set it up
for camber and toe too if you need a lend
[Edited on 20/12/08 by froggy]
[IMG]http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r187/froggy_0[IMG]
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minitici
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 07:49 PM |
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Just as well that mini was Ziebarted from new!
(Sticker on rear window)
Used to have a clubby estate that colour (and same seats  )
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Litemoth
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 08:18 PM |
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Christ Froggy, I'm not sure that's strong enough is it?
Is that layshaft about 30mm? and the flange bearings mounted to 12mm plate?
Cracking piece of engineering and fabrication.
Have you got drawings for it all?
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Omni
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 08:20 PM |
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I am ditching the locost build and now doing a Mini Build too. Except I am going to make it front engine rear wheel drive Mac1 Stylee  I will put a
6pt cage in it and then cut a tunnel down the middle for a prop and put a Sierra diff in it running on Indispension
Well that is the plan anyway
BTW join www.theminiforum.co.uk I am also on there. They are a very good bunch, like on here. Further more PM me and
I will let you know who I am getting a full braced 6 point bolt in harness from for £280 painted
O
[Edited on 20/12/08 by Omni]
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AndyW
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 08:30 PM |
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http://www.pro-motive.co.uk/
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TGR-ECOSSE
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 09:11 PM |
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What a waste of a classic car  Only kidding if you send me all bits you don't need for my collection of late 70s early 80s Minis
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froggy
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 09:49 PM |
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the de dion is mine as i built it with a single engine but all the fab work is martin keenans at mk engineering who did the twin engine conversion for
me
[IMG]http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r187/froggy_0[IMG]
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Antnicuk
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| posted on 20/12/08 at 10:24 PM |
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very nice bit of work, just out of interest, when running chain drive on a car, how do you lubricate the chains? I run bikes and the oiling makes
lots of mess.....
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andkilde
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| posted on 21/12/08 at 05:29 AM |
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MK did a Mini a few years back that looked great and looked simpler to home fabricate than the Z-cars driven trailing arm setup, there was a good set
of pictures online, they made replacement "sills" in a fairly beefy sheet-stock, sheeted the bottom in aluminum and welded the cage to the
top of the beefy sheet sills, added a bit of tube structure at the back to hang double a-arms and a chain diff off -- trimmed away the floor from the
firewall back to the bootlid along with most of the sills and the shell dropped onto the tube structure and affixed the new sills to the vestigial
bits of original sill left behind.
Found one pic:
Cheers, Ted
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ludsonline
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| posted on 25/1/09 at 11:58 AM |
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Here's another
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ludsonline
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| posted on 11/5/09 at 04:18 PM |
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Does anybody have anymore info on the MK Mini?
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iank
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| posted on 11/5/09 at 05:25 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by ludsonline
Does anybody have anymore info on the MK Mini?
I'm sure if you phone Martin he'll give you all the information on cost (afaik he makes them on a one off basis).
Contact details here http://www.mkengineering.co.uk/
to be clear this is MK Engineering not MK Sportscars.
[Edited on 11/5/09 by iank]
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