1985 Mini City E with Z Cars Conversion – using a 2005 Yamaha R1 engine
This car has been with me for many years and was my daily driver before being used for occasional track days in 1.3 litre form. I took it off the road and prepped it for scrutineering and ran in the 2005 Loton Park Hillclimb championship with it.
I bought the Z car kit shortly afterwards and had 80% of it done quite quickly, but since then have had two kids and many other opportunities in my life came along. I have now finally finished it over lockdown. I am selling the mini to make £ and space for something else to build – I enjoyed driving but as I have got older its too fast for me tbh and I get more enjoyment now from tinkering than running – running it at Goodwood was about as good as it gets for me tbh.
I have a lot of history with the car from old tax discs to plans of where I parked in the paddocks in Loton with it to timing slips, rolling road printouts, receipts etc.
Car uses the original mini subframe on aluminium and hard silicon mounts.
Minisport alloy 4pot callipers and hubs up front
All windows apart from Windscreen are Perspex, Interiors of passenger and drivers’ doors have also been removed making the car very light (560kg – slightly less now as configuration has changed since last weighed)
The bike loom has been kept separate to the addons such as lights and horn, this has been done intentionally to keep weight low and make it easier to diagnose wiring issues with either setup.
The car is also wired for a data logger (Race Technology DL1) and will come with the GPS sensor and logger itself for that.
Circa £13000, so value in it for person who buys it and wants to tidy it up, some of you may have seen this run successfully at Goodwood retro weekender last year.
It's not currently road legal, I did have one MOT put on it for Shelsley Walsh retro meeting but left it at home that weekend due to weather. Its rattle canned currently.
Obviously test drive with only one seat and no MOT is a problem - debating auction house vs ebay vs any alternatives?
Any advice re selling gratefully appreciated. I have to be honest its just about as fast as I can handle - I have little margin for error if I run out of talent - I also have ticked a major box for me driving Goodwood and want to build something else and need the room - don't we all!
cheers
phil
