My Mini Resto by minimk1

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Also I have no more exams !!!! Which means I have 9 weeks off of school to crack on with my car

Updated engine spec

998 cooper engine
D top pistons
Kent 266 cam
Cooper s lightened flywheel
Worked 12a185 head (with larger valves than a 12g295)
Double valve springs
Twin 1 1/4 carbs with trumpets and upgraded needles
Duplex timing gear
Lightened cam followers
Centre oil pick up

This is the spec so far

All I hope for is it to have 55bhp like it should standard and any more ill be a bonus if I'm honest as I do not believe that it would have kept its 55 from factory

6-20-2013

Forgot to add that this flywheel cost me £50 and only weighs 3.56 kg ! How good is that ! So light for such little money, ironic that you pay more for less of a flywheel isn't it ? :)

6-21-2013

Brought an mg metro cam for my engine it's the 3 pin type camshaft

so i split my block from my gearbox today and wow ive never seen so much sludge in all of my life but some light cleaner and a blow of my air gun got rid of most of it, i have some light suface rust on my crank,will this be a problem or could i just lightly sand it off ? pictures to come later when i can find my sd card adaptor

6-22-2013

Brands hatch tomorrow, where I will pick up my cam and have to walk past anything evolving money as I'm skint at the moment it's the minis fault :)

6-25-2013

Flywheel arrived today and wow is it lighter than standered it's ridiculously light, but i love it that and the metro 3 pin cam I picked up from brands hatch the car should have a few more bhp ;) which is always a plus

6-26-2013

Yeah this mini has been a massive learning curve for me and I am soon to be doing a fabrication job at classic autos, they are going to train me up and I will be working there full time doing fabrication and not part time cleaning as I am now, although I can't complain all the guys there are great and I see my boss as more of a mate really and I get paid £5 an hour and I do it 4-6 on Wednesdays and Thursdays so it doesn't effect me much but it gets me £20 a week to spend on my car so it's not bad and plus its given me a permanent full time job when I'm old enough so I do take the work on my car seriously and try to do my best and love any advice I am given, today I'm trying to sort out the drivers side wing as the pattern fit has a lot to be desired so I shall post up pics later on

7-5-2013

Brought my roll cage today !!!!!!!

6 point bolt in cage from huddersfeild it's the 38mm CDs one so happy it should be here sometime next week cost me £270 which is nearly half the cost of the one from minispares

7-8-2013

Roll cage is arriving tomorrow I'm so exited ;))) have to say that huddersfeild have been very helpfull so far, also I'm welding plates in so does anyone know the right bolts I should use as I do not need the whole fitting kit and would be a wast of my hard earned £ ;) pictures tomorrow I promise

7-17-2013

Struggling to upload my pictures for some reason my computor doesn't like it however I should be able to get some up tonight, I ordered some gravitex which came yesterday I managed to spray one half of the floor and wow that stuff is good, last night I ordered some BRAND NEW parts for my subframes, all the stuff I have purchased so far excluding the pannels has been used so having some new parts around is going to feel strange, there all for the front subframe as I will be sending both my subframes off for sandblasting and powder coating soon it includes the competition rubbers for the tie bars one being more stiff than the other

Oh forgot to add that I will be doing up my subframes fairly standard to keep the costs down, as this will mean I can get the car done quicker and be able to drive it for my 17th in just over a years time, then when my car is done I can save up for the uprated parts such as upgraded heavy duty adjustable tie bars and camber kits, however the only exception to this will be my hi Los and kyb shocks wich are not standard, me and my dad fitted hi Los to the back of his mini two days ago and at the lowest point on them it looks like a street sleeper

7-23-2013

finally photobucket has let me upload my pictures the last ones of the hub are of todays work stripping the 7.5 brake setup and then cleaning and painting in industry grey which will look very nice next to the black subframe of the car and is nice to paint things a different colour other than black also all my rubbers are being replaced with the race spec hardened rubber for the tie bars i have the optimum kit with the softer rubber and harder rubber as in this case it is better for the handling if one of the rubbers are softer, off the top of my head i cant remember which way, also i borrowed a ratchet strap of our faithful mini friend/flatbed man "mini-dave" , so i will now be able to get my roll cage in and know where to weld in the plates, also me and my dad have totally stripped my rear subframe and now both subframes are ready to be blasted and powder-coated, hence the rebuild of all the suspension, also once i get round to buying more gravitex the underside of my car will be ready for some inca yellow paint which will be sprayed buy yours truly and then put back on the car so it will be a rolling shell again whooooo however it will be rust freee!!!! well for the most part anyway     .  anyway here are the pictures

more to come in just a sec >>>>>>

7-24-2013

look what arrived today 

picked up a std 998 head at 7:30 today it had the following 

double valve springs 

ported 

polished 

up-rated rocker and shaft the forged type 

new pushrods 

its actually been done really well and i only brought it for the rockers and pushrods and possibly the double valve springs depending on wether or not the head my dad just brought has the double springs or not, pm me if your interested in the  head and valves as these will just be lying around in my shed also i could take it to mitp if needed anyway ill save that for the classified ads and show you the pictures  

7-26-2013

Recived my rebound rubbers today