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Its looking great so far Stu, love the dials! the Forza's look abit harsh on yr bum!

looking sweet mate

I cannot wait to see this.

You've put a lot of hard work into it and you should be proud

right i'm getting sick of my seat at the moment. i'm a tall broad guy, 6ft 3 and abit of a beer gut basically! it didn't go back far enough on the original brackets, so i bought some seat extenders. what a load of crap they are! way to flimsy and still didn't give me enough leg room, so i fabricated my own. only to find out my seat hit my rollcage! so now i have to sit at a sort of angle, which is a ball ache! i might be able to move it forward, but to be honest its just pissing me off now.

i'll leave it now till the end, if its still shit then i'll see about removing the cage.

fitted the oil sandwich only to snap the oil sender inside it! doh! but it fits well and looks shiny! also have made a sheild for my intercooler, its made of perspex, and only covers the side protruding the brace bar.

i have wired up my mpi stalks. well they are actually take from an mgf. you find these types of stalks in rover 200's, and 400's but i needed one without a rear wiper. i spent some time looking at the haynes manual, and thought bugger it! a few fuses later, and its all working. the main reason for me using these types of stalks is not only for a more modern look and feel to them, but also now the side lights are on the stalk itself.

the indicator self canceling doobrie was taken from my original stalk, and the center of my new stalks widened to take it. as for fixing it to the steering i still have to come up with something. as you can see from the below pics it took some butchering, but it does just fit in the original cowling. i have butchered the cowling by opening the holes up, but i will put some sort of rubber boot or cloth in its place for a professional finish

They must have took some work getting sorted!

looking good though

Gutted about the seat situation

Whats planned next?

what about, using original(classic)type bucket seats, my mates got a mini with them in and, i'm 6ft and slightly (read largehehehe) heavy set, and i fit in no probs, am guessing your seats are new tho, so you prob wanna utilise them, just a thought tho

i've been sitting in it all day today sorting the wiring, and its ok, i could do with it moving back one more click but i think i can live with it.

new exhaust almost fitted. spent all day struggling like a bitch just getting the link pipe sorted. started raining again today so for now the backbox is loosley on.







a much improvement over the original conception, also a side shot for you all.

Looks much better

agree with him old 1 looked to ott like a chav, this looks just right

so far this weekend, have fitted a magnet into the oil feed to the oil pump. as you may or may not know the a-series engine in a mini shares its engine oil with its gearbox oil (the gearbox is the sump). so the main reason for this is to prolong the life of my wee engine. so particles that do happen to get past the gauze on the central oil pickup will be hopefully stopped by this!

it goes in where the blanking plate is on the gearbox.



comparing the new and old



and the new one fitted.

Looks like it was a bitch of a job to do.

I didn't know the oil was shared.

Is there a reason for it?

bitch isn't the word! the supplier reccomends that you do this job with the gearbox out and i can see why!

to be honest i don't know why it is, maybe to save on production costs? all i know is it has been realitively the same design since 1959. only real special requirements are thicker oil should be used around 20w50.

The Italian Job.
That sums up your motor for me. So which banks first?



Stunning, impressive, i would love to have one.