Miniman76 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Hi! A few friends said I should sign up and post some pics/stories about some of my minis. So here goes! This is my road car, Originally I go the car when I was 16 at high school and rebuild it with my dad. That was around 7 years ago, Its been on the road now for ~5 years. Its been on the trailer a few times too ha. Originally it started out as a yellow mini 1000. It was pulled to a pieces, repainted with the rust patched etc. Disc brake conversion on the front off a 1275gt, cut the guards to fit flares with 13x7 inch minilite style wheels. Originally the car went back on the road with the 1000cc engine, but then I wanted more power so this was binned for a 1275 swap. Motors got a full rebuild with a bigger cam (can't remember the specs), fancy clutch, and a swish rocker cover. I through Honda Prelude seats in it for awhile but those were swapped out for the standard low-backs- its heaps more comfortable with the standard seats. anyway, Pics! I dont have any of when it was being built but heres some of it as she sits now... its still being fiddled with, The interior is on the on the to do list. These were taken shortly after it was returned to the road. Discussion thread: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/42650-miniman76s-76-mini-road-car/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miniman76 Posted March 7, 2014 Author Share Posted March 7, 2014 Sooo before christmas the pinion bearing changed its mind, went south and ruined my day. bits stripped other bits off the side gears and blew the 4th gear needle roller bearing. basically it had had it. So it went in the shed over christmas/new years however a couple of weeks ago a challenge was laid by some friends to have it going for beach hop so we could take it up along with Gregs (64valiant on here) valiant. Therefore the following occured. The Engine/box came out, gearbox was removed... eventually. many many pieces of stuff were found. see the bits on the left hand side?... yea. Anyway a replacement box was sourced from New Plymouth. the engine was painted and it was all put back together last weekend. So anyway its all back together in time for beach hop in a couple of weeks. I'll throw up another thread of my race car one which has alot more detail/pics involved. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miniman76 Posted March 9, 2014 Author Share Posted March 9, 2014 welll so the drivers door card has been pritty second hand for a while now so we needed to do somthing about it so with the help of my good friend Greg (64valiant) he has made a new door card utilizing the old vinyl which will see the car for a tad longer thanks to Greg 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miniman76 Posted March 10, 2014 Author Share Posted March 10, 2014 so tonight we got both door card back in with the door trim back onThanks To greg now to get it ready to cruize over to beach hop now warrent is next 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miniman76 Posted March 17, 2014 Author Share Posted March 17, 2014 so had a couple of set backs with the warrent the felt bush has got play in the steering column standard issue with a mini so no biggie and a rh tie rod end easy fixes so pulled steering out and also removed the taco tonight im thinking it suits it not to have one now im over the whole rice burner thing and appreciating the classics more 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miniman76 Posted April 8, 2014 Author Share Posted April 8, 2014 so been flat out and havnt been on here in a while heres a few pics that were takin from an awsome beach hop weekend seen some amazing cars and meet some cool people but for the mini was a bit of a sad one car kept over heating tryed everything i could with a screw driver as its all we had haha but all in all a good weekend have some mods under way of removing the disc setup thats on the casr and replacing with a 4 pot vented setup i have got off a mg metro and definatly an electric fan is a must so heres the temp gauge while trying to head to the warf to get some pictures after going down the main haha but all is still well with the beast thanks to Greg for the pics (64valiant) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miniman76 Posted May 19, 2014 Author Share Posted May 19, 2014 so now with the race mini in a milion pices again we have a few items that are no longer needed for the 4age so decided that the exauxt is pritty shabby on the old girl so with the race car getting new system its time to give the old greenie some love so this is the new muffler setup to go on its probbly a tad big but it will do for now also currently in the procces of cleaning up my cooper twin carbs for it mangaed to get a electric fan kit to solve cooling issues we had at the like of beach hop try to get the air flowing nicely with my other car geting disc brakes on the rear it has freed up alloy spaced drums and good mintex shoes and new wheel cylinders so they will be going on soon along with the 4 pot vented brakes ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miniman76 Posted April 28, 2015 Author Share Posted April 28, 2015 some of you may Know ive had enough with this british powerd thing cooking itself and replaced just about everything in the engine department but must have a cracked head or block so given up on the BLMC 1300 rececently i purchased a toyota vitz powrerd mini project as a race car and have decided to repower the green machine so work has begun altho i am going to make my own subframe so a bit of work is required i have most things to complete the job which is great and also another spare caged shell ohhh and the start of some gsxr 600 throttle boddies for the vitz engine not sure weather they will go on tho but the ideas are all there spare fibre glass fronts but steel front will remain and the homologated cage which was a bonus now we have removed the engine now time for the fun to begin should be a relativaly good project its just a matter of getting it through cert etc at the end of the day bye for now 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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