Yeah his stuff seems to all work quite well.. as you say though it's probably easier to do a hydraulic setup in the long run cable clutches suck anyway

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Potato

I reckon youre crazy not to use the off the shelf hydraulic set up.

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But he's thriving and striving and hugging the turns.

I must be crazy then..

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Potato

Me too.
I can't find it, and I reckon I could do it with mini parts in an afternoon.

Why can't you use the standard cable clutch? I'm sure you all have the answers, I only posted that link to show that the conversion to hydro isn't difficult and has been done with parts endemic to the model range. The image of the cable clutch adapted to a mini uses a standard cable, and probably pedal box, and although I haven't attempted this conversion (mainly because I have a swift and like the engine where it is) I can't see why it would be difficult.

I drove the swift before I dismantled it and the clutch felt like a soggy sponge. Not good - I only looked at it as an option to get me by till I go hydraulic later on.

It sounds easy, but its not. The cable isn't long enough to go into the car, and its too long to go to go to where the pedal is. It gets there, but it fouls on my subframe. To get it to work I'd have to angle it out and I'd prefer the space for my inlet manifold.

The hydraulic setup now looks much easier. I shorten the suzi arm, and make a new bracket to mount the slave on the gearbox as has been done 100 times.

Strange as it sounds - its a more compact setup too, something I need now that I've test fitted the radiator, which was hitting the cable mount bracket.

Changing a clutch cable once fitted in a mini is not a job you want to do twice

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Too many cars, and too little time.

My vote goes to hydraulic. I could never get the cable setup to work as well as the hydraulic. I thought I had the last one right but I heard it eventually broke and replacing the cable must have been a headache.

My current conversion has hydraulic. A simple bracket with the mini slave cylinder bolted to it. If starting from scratch I'd never attempt another cable setup.

haha yeah done it twice now in the mini :/ it's pretty easy to do now.

just a pain & a good hr to replace.

fixed it finally... i hope! if i could go hydro i would,not easy on a mk1 gearbox mk2 is off the shelf stuff

I just went on redlinegti and found the slave cylinder and arm. Its off a 1600 Awd. That post wa dated 2005! Boy im getting old.

Here it is!

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=suzu ... ujPVA3M%3A

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But he's thriving and striving and hugging the turns.

Thanks for all the input on the clutch arrangement, I've got some more bits on order at the moment that should have the mini slave cylinder doing the job for me easy enough.






Now I'm focusing on the cooling system. I'm going to run a standard mini radiator in the standard spot, with a 'pusher' thermofan.

Are there any gurus here that can tell me if there's any logic to my radiator selection:
The suzi gti radiator core is 350 x 325 x 30mm in size (call it 3.4 litres even though we know its not solid fluid). A 50mm core mini one is 240 x 270mm, for an effective volume of 3.25 litres.

Provided I fit the biggest, highest air flow thermo fan I can, should my cooling system (theoretically) be up to scratch or should I be looking at other options in an effort to get more cross sectional air flow?

How many cores does the standard Suzuki radiator have, versus how many the Mini has? What density (fins/inch) are they both?

The answer to these questions will help a lot in determining their relative cooling efficiencies. You want a radiator with the highest fin density with the most cores you can fit into the space you have.

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The adventures of an owner builder in the Tallarook Ranges

There's a very good point, I'd forgotten that.
The suzi radiator is a two core unit, 21 fins per inch, and what feels like copper construction
Mini one I have here is two core, 16 fins per inch, aluminium.

Obviously the suzi one is streets ahead on all accounts - internal volume, better material, more fins. I think I have a copper mini one here with more fins, but its only a 40mm core not 50 so they're probably fairly similar.

What have other people found that can be made to fit easy enough?

Update time:

Haven't done a lot on my car for a couple of weeks, last weekend I started on some more subframes for people whilst waiting on part deliveries for mine.




Back on my car though, I have now got the bits for a hydraulic clutch sorted:



And I've got the intake manifold sorted:




I had the engineer here this morning for a look-see.
No problems I need to address, so I can go hell for leather and finish it all.