Project Trig - After 18 Months Away, Is Back In Town! by Mini 360

7 minute(s) of a 461 minute read

So I needed to take pics of the car for insurance so they could confirm agreed value I have requested for the car.  Needed a wash after Tain though so finally got a chance.  Thankfully it wasn't too bad but a fair amount of dust had settled on it from the garage so the foam came out to play.







Problem with having a car with ace paint and a well protected finish? Snow foam doesnt want to cling onto it......



Identified a few issues......top of the passenger door doesnt touch the seal it would seam....



and not fitting a boot seal has its downsides....



Just as well it's not an all weather car! Sadly the rain came on so no photos tonight but will hopefully get some done tomorrow!

Cars leak is fixed, still got a wee drip from somewhere but it is minimal which is fine. Its a mini after all. They leaked as standard from the factory

6-25-2013

Had to take pics of the car for insurance.  THey didnt want a 3/4 view so you can have it instead Need to sort rear ride height.....
 

7-3-2013

So as some may remember the car leaked a fair bit on the run to and from Tain.  Thought it was the loose oil filter (it was to a degree...) but it was still leaking.  Couldnt think where from until i noticed tonight there was a lot of oil firing out of the oil pipe going to the filter housing...... So for now, I've tightened this up, cleaned and thrown in some instant gasket.  Sourcing a braided replacement with proper unions instead to prevent the leak reappearing though.   Gave it a bath after a mucky back road drive at the weekend so its back to looking spotless again :)

7-5-2013

Wee update.  Fixed the leak from the oil pipe.  Will still replace with braided though for piece of mind.

Today however! Since the weather was amazing I thought, lets take the Mini to work! Then as I was burbling along, it came up to temperature.....and wouldn't stop rising! Pulled in to steam billowing from the bonnet. Oh dear! Turns out the top hose jubilee clip had worked its way loose and spewed the contents of the rad all over the bay. Lovely rusty water and antifreeze all over my clean bay.......

One naughty Mini......



One dirty bay....



Nursed it to the BP filling station and my dad came to the rescue in the Honda, we topped up the rad and swapped cars so I could get to work. In the 2 minutes we were there a woman came over saying how she had one years ago and the top hose was always coming off and her fan belt snapped in the middle of nowhere and she used her tights to fix it. Proof that it works! Then a tanker driver said he had one and had 3 gold seal engines for it over his ownership. You dont get that chat with a 'eurobox'!

And whilst I was at work dad cleaned it all up. The antifreeze has damaged the paint on a couple of bits but nothing a lick of paint wont fix again! Thankfully the body colour paint is fine!

7-8-2013

Went out to try my rented 70-200 f2.8 lens Ive got for Goodwood Festival of Speed later this week.  Pretty happy with them considering Ive not done anything like this in over a year! Car could be cleaner but its got to be used sometime!
 

Rest can be found on my Flickr below....

7-9-2013

So whilst I took photos last night, before we left I took some video to see exactly how the car sounded on the outside. Viewing this......me happy! It sounds amazing!  Turn your speakers UP!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-Oh0tB4dYM

7-24-2013

Got bored the other night so went out for some nosie and photos with my mate.  Ace summers evening light made it even better. New editing style to see if I liked it.  
 

And because there was a tractor trailer on air, why not!

Hopefully sort out the ride height issues this weekend and test out the 5mm spacers I have for the rears. :)