Prawny Baby
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winter.
rear brakes.... all they ever do is rub or slip!!!!!
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cheers lads
boovey, the sportspacks copies ive got are from minispares, and cost me 50quid
but if im honest mate, DONT BOTHER
i really do regret buying these, i had genuine rover ones on before, and the fit was perfect, but these just dont fit right, tehy dont fit tight to the body work, and the finish is awful! you can see where the studs are moulded in on the arch surface, up close the are poo!" they are also WAY more flexible than genuine arches
id suggest you try one of the other copies from someone like P&L minis, they ahve a good rep!
a fibreglass shell would be awesome! can u get a fibreglass pickup? ive not seen one.
just for u matty, heres a pic of the car towards the end of november.... in its prime
(or not as the case may have been)
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hey boovey, when i fitted my 6x12's with a steel front on, i simply got the jig saw out and took 1'' off the arch the whole way round.
u cant see it when the arches are on, and the arch cutting takes less than 10 mins to do, if u want to be really proper u can also bend a lip back into it to add strength.
really, for the sake of borrowing a jog saw and 20mins work, id go with 6x12's everytime, they are SO smart, and there arnt many deep dish 6x12's around yet, due to the dish they have the look of 13's without the gay handling, which cant be a bad thing!
no front bumper because the carbon front has no bumer lip! i could make up some brackets to fit one, but i personally love the look of it like that.
theres a fairly good chance the back is going to be de-bumpered as well, because the bumper lip is really shitty,and i cant stop the rust and i dont want it to spread into the panel, so i might just grind it off and smooth it out :D
as for insurance....
if ur 17, just passed with pass plus, norwich union will quote u around 500quid on a bog standard 998cc mini.
start modifying it and its a whole different story.... :D
minis rock!!!!! (just out to ride then im in for a polishing session!)
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yea danny it is a jack up and adjust job really, but the problem is, as u lower the front the geometry changes a fair bit, which would make it handle a touch on the funny side! on the back u can just wind it up and down all u like, i frequently do (like if im going on a trip with loads of kit and bikes on the roof i wind it up)
but due to the tie bars u cant do that at the front unless u have a laser tracking machine! which i obviously dont!
its also ALMOST running on the bumpstops up front as it is :ermm: so im not sure how much lower it can go, we will see, maybe ill get an inch, that would be enough!
the 1380 will be a HUGE difference to the 1275, loads more power, and even more importantly bags more torque!
im building it to a 'sensible' spec for a quick everyday car
1380 offset bored metro turbo block with centre main strap
wedged and crossdrilled turbo crank
cooper s steel rods
kent 286 scatter cam (with lightened and polished steel duplex timing gear)
ultralight steel flywheel and backplate (orange diaphram)
stage 3 unleaded head
1.5:1 roller tip rockers
straight cut 1:1 drop gears driving a rebuild helical box with a X-pin diff and a 3.2:1 final drive.
should produce ABOUT 105bhp ish, hoping for at least 90 at the wheels.
will go like shit but isnt a silly spec so itll still be driveable on the street!
dirtbiker.... ive got clear indicatros, i always used to have them, but some untC smashed one so i had to buy a new set, ive just not bothered to fit them yet :P
the rear plate light is a genuine mk1 item (not cheap chrome looking plastic) i got it from minispares-if uw ant to fit one theres a fair bit of filling and smoothing to cover up the huge hole the old light has.
and yes it SHOULD have repeaters in the wings, but they would just be annoying to dissconnet every time i take the front off (its a carbon fibre front remember) so i remounted them in the wings....its a personal touch :P the arches are SHITE anyway, when i get round to it im getting new ones and smoothing the tops off
Brisa: a sumpguard is actually pretty far up my list of things to get next, as im not keen on taking the bottom off it, especially when i get my new gearbox in (i did once get it air born and scrape the bottoms off the gearbox fins upon landing-scary!)
heres a terrible pic of the interior taken on my phone, the seats have sinse been lowered 3'' and moved back 4'', and the steering columb has been dropped just over 2'' so its all a much better position
engine bay looks GASH, its the lsat thing on my list, i stuck the 1275 in to give it a bit more go, but ive not sprayed up the engine bay yet, all the subframes are comming off in summer to be powder coated along with every suspension part, its also having new sills and floorpans and a respray underneath.
the blue engine is a 1293 i had in for a few days (until it blew up)
the red engine is my current one, but ages ago before i flip fronted the car (looks terrible i know)
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haha
thanks guys
every single chrome part is brand new, and the paint has been flatted down to its super smooth, but not buffed up to a super shiney finish yet!!!
its all so shitty and dirty atm because ive not had time to clean it all up because ive been so busy working to get it through its first MOT under my ownership, which it passed with flying colours on thursday, needing only a wheelbearing, ball joints, and some adjustment of the rear brakes!
tyres are shitty because the main road out of my village has been closed for a week and i have to drive up an amazingly muddy back street to escape home for the next few weeks....
the annodised blue pins are also only a temp until i get some stainless ones.
when i bought them there was only blue or red available, i thought it was better to contrast than having a mismatched shade of red....
silver comming very soon
along with bonnet stripes, pinstripes, and cooper laurels behind the stripes on the rear quarters.
could make a bumper fit on the front danny, but i dont really want to :ermm: it would mean drilling more holes on my carbon front for the plate and bumper, and once the holes drilled its there for good really
i may decide to bumper it up again, but for now im happy with the cut off street racer type look.
after all, come summer time the 1380cc is going in, and then it really will be QUICK
(need to lower the front a bit more....)
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actually, in that pic they look like the standard rover 'minilight style' rose petal alloys, which are 4.5x12'', unless u have converted to 7.5'' s discs or similar, tehy are DEFINATELY not 10's, and there really would be little point to be honest, unless u REALLY prefered 10's. plus the fact that theyre running on 145 tyres would suggest its the standard rover wheels, because u would have to be BEYOND stupid to convert to 10's and fit 145 tyres.... so lets just agree that theyre 12's :ermm:
DONT fit sportspack arches with 5.5x12's, have u got ANY IDEA of how stupid it will be? the wheels will oversail the arches by about 2'', and look terrible!
ive got 6x12 deep dish wheels from MWS, which as far as i know have a greater offset than any other 6x12 mini rim, and tehy ONLY just fill the rear sportspacks, it still looks iffy in some pics, although its fine up close and personal.
any way....
heres a pic of mine (whole at last)
its still not finished, its been resprayed, but its still not been polished up yet, as im waiting a few weeks for the paint to really harden properly before i give it some beans with the buffer!
still awaiting the bonnet stripes, and pinstripes down the sides, needs lowering ANOTHER inch at the front, and a 1380cc motor being built up as we speak, to be dropped in in summer....
ps: the mexico is AWESOME, ive got a 72 mk1 1300 Gia im intending to restore one day.... lovely cars
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dammit danny it wasnt even half finshed when i sent u that photo!!!!
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:P
mate i havent got the 1000cc in there anymore.
i have a 1275cc stage 1 engine with a Hs44 carb in there now.
so can i say it is now, or am i not allowed still.............
spoonz
nope, still not a cooper, simply a mayfair with cooper stickers and a metro engine....
No you can never say it's a copper as it will never be one sorry but thats just the way it isI've got a straight cut dog box coming for mine next month (Y) should sound like a beast oh and I have a 45doc Webber to fit once I have a filter for it so that should give it a bit more bottem end.
Oh I just love the A series engine :"> so much to do so little time :P
agreed about jamies mini....
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you really CANT use a clutchless dog box on the road, it would need a rebuild every few thou!!!! and a webber 45 takes away ALL bottom end torque, but gives a bit more top end, with a webber itll be flat under about 2500/3000rpm.
your FAR best off with an HIF44, good for 110bhp, and loads more bottom end than a webber....
cheaper too!
Well if your gunna say that about my mini , then its the fastest MINI 1000 with a 1275 cooper engine in ,but that then would make it a cooper just because its so fast and people would say its a cooper.
but im not aloud to say it is............... god. i agreed that is was not a cooper to prawn before i put the 1275 engine in , and he said "thanks" and stuff, his main reason being it was a 998cc engine and not a 1275 ...........
so i think ill just say its a mini 1275 racer then ? hmmmmmmm sounds naff.
i think ill stay with mini cooper.......... sorry , because i see it as one thankyou ,
unless you can think of any silly thing to say its not. like year.......... :ermm:
hahahha
cant say its the fastest 1000 with a 1275 either because it cant be faster than mine tehehe
is mine a cooper? thats a tough one.
it was made by rover as a flame, but before being sold to the public it was sent of to JCG for a cooper conversion, had a cooper head fitted, twin hs2 carbs, and a cooper freeflow exhaust, along with the half leather interior.
oh, and it has the cooper id plate and sticker on the rocker cover :P so i guess mine actually IS a cooper, although thats open to debate. considering JCG never MADE any cars, tehy only modified mayfairs that rover sent them.... also, most 1990's coopers havnt been anywhere near JCG anyway, rover just stuck the stickers on and that was that....
Look it doesn't matter how much stuff you bolt onto your car it will never be a Copper, it wasn't made at the Copper garages and it doesn't come with a certificate or have a plate under the bonnet showing that it is a Copper.Im sorry to piss on your fire but like Prawn I get anoyed when Mini owners are trying to sat there car is something that it isn't
Also another big thing is that the a Copper of that age would have been injection and yours isn't. Sorry :ermm:
sadly coopers wernt made in 88, so the closest age to his is the rsp cooper in late 89, which was actually a carbed model, as were the first of the production ones until late 91/early 92 when they went over to single point injection....
MUHAHAHAHAHAHA
i undermine you all with my superior mini knowledge :-
pics of mine to follow.... although i warn u, its nice, but amazing by any means....
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Spoonz you only posted this because you know you will win the "Nicest car on the forum" award 'cos Danny has a soft spot for Minis! :P :)
haha, will he f**k!!!! u aint seen my mini yet :S
and jamie, this is not personal AT ALL,
but will u PLEASE STOP CLAIMING U OWN A MINI COOPER!!!!!
BECAUSE U DONT!
production of the mk3 cooper/s stopped in 73 if my memory serves me, after that, the next cooper to be made was the rover RSP, which came along in late 89 on a G-plate, and was only available in red, had the same 1275cc carbed engine as the mg metro, and half leather seats.
your mini being F reg is probably 88, and it IS NOT A COOPER
its a 1000cc mayfair with a white roof and a few stripes! and a stage one kit
ALL later coopers were 1275 cc
please mate, i know its a LOVELY looking car, i wont deny that at all, but dont try to pass it off for something that its not, because u will always annoy people who know what theyre talking about!
ill have to get some pics of my mini up asap....
carbon fibre front end, stage 3 1275, alloy dash, fully adjustable camber/ride height all round, cobra FIA approved seats....
and a lovely 90bhp :P
mate, its a lovely car, but lets be honest, its a lookalike, and thers nout wrong with that, but youl never pass an MR2 off as a ferrari.... if u get my drift, tehy may look the same with a bodykit, but it just aint
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HEHE, yeh i think it does, lol. :P
Its all good fun, i love it. :(
:P Nick's coming second this time, lol :)
See you all there, if not before.
Cheers Steve
is that so sir????
your sitting next to me right now as i type this, and were about to go out for a ride....
we both know u aint got a chance :) im far fatter than u :-
indoor trial sounds cracking..... twill be just like a street kinda comp id imagine, YAY!!!!!!!!!
how big is the venue? will ui be able to see all the ridesr in one big hall?
that would be really cool
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fook me, brings back memories!!!!
who remembesr the days of trials kings before tf even existed? almost 4 years ago?long before a long vid was ever released, and they used to put up 4-8 second clips of individual moves...
those were the days, when we could but dream of riding like them...
fact is though, even back then, 4 years ago, they were amazing, and still better than most of us are now....
bastards!
how times change....
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im fairly sure the spokes from a 521 WONT fit, as they are a fair bit shorter
i dont know the exact lenghts, but i know that adam told me the ERD of a ronnie is 545, thats all u need to know!
get yourself over to www.dtswiss.com and use the spoke calc on there
also, noone could help u, because u didnt say how many spokes :S or what lacing (2x,3x,4x)
use the spoke calc, its pretty simple
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top job mate :S
id be fecking proud of that
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what a video, that opening song :D
I know the title, but I don't have kazza, and I have a 56gay, where can I get it?
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can I have one please :lol:
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new wheels, built by me for once, so far so good, loving the width of the koxx rim
:"> I do like photo's :">
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many say theyre better.
hahaha, he's certainly modest, you've got to give him that :-
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so the brake works? wheres the problem mate
it doesnt matter if the slaves are right in, as long as the brake works then theres no problem, im sure a 521 can be run on a raptor anyway, just leave it as it is, u wont beat a 521 for strength
alternatively, do a pad bodge like people with the koxx/521 problem have, possibly the ebst solution, very easy to do, works a treat, problem solved
heres a diagram of how I did mine:
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Hope xc's are generally the way to go as they are the tried and tested hub
true
as for a wide rim the best choices are the planet x bmf (and all other identical rims ) and the new koxx rim.half true
as far as wide rims go, the bmf and koxx rims are the only choice really, everything else is just a bmf with or without holes, and with or without eyelets.
thing is, none of them are really all that good
sure there pretty strong, but nowhere near as strong as a 521, and there so heavy cosndering tehy are weaker than a 521 which weighs about 150g less.
so the best rim to go for is a 521
and no
its not too wide for u
be honest? y do u want a wide rim?
I dont, many people dont need them, loads of pro's run 521's, take jeff lenosky, chris akkrig used to on his pace, danny holroyd did before the px spnosorship
so the truth is u dont need a wide rim at all :-
so wake up
come to ur senses lad
get a 521 on hope xc
by FAR the best budget wheel available
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I reckon the unex magura hosing is great.
it looks far better than normal magura hosing, its cheap, and is really strong, ive caught mine a few times and tis fine, and doesnt kink at all.
its also really flexible unliek mag hose
I did have a problem with my first rear set but this was my own fault, I baiscly F**ked it up, but thats all sorted now and its been great for ages
I love it
and u can have a matching front hose for just about any brake as well
for the extra pimpyness :-
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god, another thread full of crap, sort of, al was sort of right, monty bar and stem is good, but not cheapest
if u want the cheapest set up
u want a monty stem with an echo bar, monty stem is 25, and i think the echo bar is only about 20 quid, making it by far cheaper. the monty stem seems good, as does the echo bar (if a little heavy-not that that matters)
so thats the cheapest
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mate, ur new, so i spose we will let u off, sooner or later u will learn that there are some people that u just dont dispute on certain subjects, like argueing with thewheeldoctor™ about wheels
oh well
u will soon learn
hope hubs, half the price of chris king, half as good, simple as that
Dj Memorial Ride Anyone? 14th May '05 Portsmouth
in Member Organised Rides
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ill be there!
going to porthsmouth uni in sept, so itll be nice to come and see what its like!