My Mini Resto by minimk1

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Decided against the arches, it's going to take to long and be too much work and I just want the car done so I shall be cutting it off tomorrow, oh well worth a try, today's work has been more prep for putting the car back on the jig for the bottom to be sprayed, so has involved grinding and welding up of holes etc, also found another bit of rust on the lower rear seat that I will chop out once the car is spun over, tomorrow wil be removal of boot bonnet and a section if the cage that obstructs the jig pole and also the cleaning up of the engine bay and repair of the shock mount bolts, mucky work but it has to be done in order to spray underneath pics tomorrow

10-30-2013

update of todays work:

• finished cleaning engine bay- needs de greasing ready for paint 
• took the arch off as this would have taken too long and i want the car done
• ground down remaining spot welds 
• welded up the bonnet badge holes and the other holes i drilled for the bonnet strap as these were in the wrong position 
• moved things down to my shed 
• put seats up in garage loft 
• cleaned the garage floor of engine bay and other mess 

work on the car from 9am to 2pm as i have lots of fun english, graphics and geography coursework due in after my week off that we are given to rest from the hours of homework we have to do each night, so makes sense they give us more work than normal over our time off !!!!! also i have work on wednesdays and fridays from 2:45 to 4:45 

what my welds took to get off  

until tomorrow............

11-1-2013

grease caps turned up yesterday, i had a whole days work at my workplace fabricated some ali panels for an AC ace they are making, also learnt how to gas weld ali, used all of there metalworking tools and it was great so glad i got a place there.

update of todays work 

welded both mk1 hinge plates on 

sorted out my newest addition of old draws 

tidied up my area 

bit more grinding 

made my self feel sick under the wing with a massive helmet on making my head compress 

until tomorrow 

also just ordered these 

11-4-2013

my engine breather filter turned up today and i have been searching around and have found a place to do some of my engine work 

im having :

crank regrind

crank lighten 

wedging of the crank

con rods balanced end on end 

clutch balanced 

polished crank journals 

flywheel balanced 

whole system balanced as one

for £200 plus VAT    which i didn't think was too bad, when i have the money i shall arrange a courier to deliver them and then 10 days later i have a fully lightened and balanced bottom end, then i will be purchasing all of the engine parts that i want replacing and then give the engine to my engine buider at work to do properly inc new cam bearings etc

11-5-2013

998 of course !!

It's my 1968 998 cooper engine

Spec should be near this :

Cooper s forged rockers
12a185 head ported polished and with big valves and double valve springs
Std d top pistons
Mg metro camshaft
Isky cam followers
Duplex lightened timing gear
3.5kg lightened flywheel
Wedged and balanced crank
Lightened and balanced con rods
Centre main strap
Centre oil pick up
Uprated diff pin
Grey clutch
'S' type uprated big ends
Twin 1 1/4 carbs with trumpets

Hope for 60-70 bhp would be happy if it was between 60 and 70

11-7-2013

update lots of work done last weekend and a few things have arrived so

arrived: 

• top arm repair kits 
• rear adjustable camber brackets
• breather filter 

done:

• got it on the jig
• welded up all roll cage plate washes on the bottom of the car
•  welded some plates underneath onto the solid seat mount
• started to clean up the underneath ready for stone chip.
• welded mk1 hinge plates on.