fatlad
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yer i picked up on that it has got about a 15 previous owners on the log book so I'm guessing it has been re-shelled at some point!
anyway today i got a dashboard knocked together and mounted up the acewell. also finished putting the 998 in to get me back up north. going to fetch the corolla at the start of the week. cant wait!
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fatlad
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the 1430 was putting about 120bhp down. with the wellers ive got on at the mo i can get the metro turbo 4pots behind them so no real issue there. the only reason for going up to 13s would be bigger contact patch and a better choice of rubber. also with lo pros on 13s the handling will a bit sharper.
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fatlad
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and so it begins!!!! the a-series is all but sold and I have just bought this! got it here for a bargain! cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=250435232901looks like it is going to be an 'ota after all! its the small port engine so thats 134bhp straight out of the box ;D with a tubular manifold and some minor port work it should be good for 150bhp with a 5 speed box! woop! I have just fitted a 998 to get me going for the time being. quite looking forward to the possibility of more than the 15mpg I got out of the 1430! plan is to keep the mini running as long as possible by getting a bulkhead from the scrappy to build the frame around. got a spare subby courtesy of dazzler so all is looking well so far! looking forward to getting it all in my garage and getting the welder and grinder out! lol
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Last Edit: Jun 7, 2009 16:30:30 GMT by fatlad
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Hey all! think this is my first post on here so il introduce myself! I'm Fatlad, I'm 20 and I'm doing motorsport engineering at coventry university. I made the mistake of going to the 16v mini club meet last week with dazzler and the mini-ota. I say mistake as now ive seen how quick some of the cars are ive decided to sell up the 1430 a-series to fund a 16v build! its probably going to be 4age power but I'm not 100% yet was looking at the 1.8vvc k series or maybe a red top. but seen as how I helped dazzler out on the mini-ota I think it will probably go that way! id love a 20v but they don't seem to turn up very often. plan is to do the swap while I'm off uni over the summer and hopefully get in a track day with it early autumn. if my 1430 goes for good money il book and pay for a trackday in late august early sept to give me something to aim for! lol. think I'm going to do a frame based around the standard mini one and probably end up putting the rad in the boot. would like to keep it on my 10" wellers but I cant see it happening so will be looking for some 13x8 wellers if anyone knows where I can get them from? going to start by buying a complete aw11 mr2 or a corolla then go from there! found some more pictures of my build up to the stage its at now. I added cross braces, doorbars, dash bars to a safety devices 6 point cage and welded it all in. all done in 38mm cds. fish mouthing tubes is a curse word to do with an angle grinder + hack saw! 1430 engine fitted bit of smoothing spraying the inside orange on the inside! hence its nick name "Jaffa" door bars 6x10 wellers with fat dish built it up and ran it like this for ages because it needed to be done for srr07 then it got cake! then it got painted by dazzler after a week of being on curse word duty!
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Last Edit: Nov 24, 2009 2:23:12 GMT by fatlad
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