Frumpy Gets Some Love by benjy_18

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Had a good outing at bingley yesterday, save to say I spent I fortune even though I spent most of the day staring at this!!!

DSN certainly saw me coming and swiftly emptied my pockets, not that I will complain.
Most just engine brackets/bolts but things that's needed all the same. Also picked up a set of they're alloy door hinges which should loose me some more weight off the doors.

Had placed an order with arc angels for a 2 piece front end and a set of group 5 arches, so collected them yesterday. I'm a little disappointed with the bonnet as the curves are all wrong, but I will drop them a call tomorrow and see if they're anything that an be done.

Also bought new headlamp assemblies for the front end. So have built them up ready to throw them on to mock up

Finally bought myself a high torque started aswell, more so to help with clearance against my radiator than anything else.

2-1-2014

Jonny, it's just a generic high torque starter that most mini suppliers will sell, it's made by "wosp" but it's cheaper to buy from mini spares than from wisp direct.

Fitted my oil cooler today, realised the generic cooler hoses won't fit how I want, so ive had to order up a load of AN fittings and hose for it. Should look the part aswell though

2-4-2014

Sorted my cooler pipes out, and the look the dogs danglies!!!

Next comes the oil feed for the turbo and adapter for a pressure sensor, then move onto the radiator and boost hoses

2-17-2014

Plenty of stuff to update on this, I've sorted the issue with my oil cooler fittings, by ordering a smaller 10 row cooler with -8 fittings built on, this combined with mounting it slightly lower on rubber mounts, should give me ample room for the radiator.

I've run my fuel lines between the front and rear bulkhead, using goodridge hardline and bulkhead fittings.

These along with the battery cable and brake lines still be run ontop of the carpets, as they look pretty cool!
Here you can also see the start of the braided lines in the boot

Quick photo of my alloy plenum chamber

Currently in the process of making a restrictor ring for it

Passenger door frame hung on my new dsn hinges

Here is the lower intercooler mount, made using the existing radiator mount. The top mount will tie into the thermostat housing as standard

Quick shot of the intercooler itself, it's from a Mazda MPV and has had the outlets modified to fit. I have also shaved off any extra mounting points which aren't needed. What you can't see is the tapped hole at the top for an IAT which will be used with my ignition system hopefully

And here you can see the oil cooler position, nicely in the airflow