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PostPosted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 11:45 am 
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Anyone had experience or knowledge of this conversion?
http://superfastminis.com/MTB2.html
Seems well thought out, and they cater for the RHD (some surgery required)


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:42 pm 
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Looks a bit flimsy for my liking.
So youd have to pay the engineer quite a lot of money to do an analysis on it to prove its up to the job.
Youd need to suspension arms analysed as well.
So pretty much hillclimb or track day car only.

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Hi,
Looks all good and well but I am not sure if the engineer will okey it.
As far as I know All speed frames are similar price and allready been approved by an Victorian engineer.

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I have talked to a few people who have used their frames and have needed to do some modifications are were not totally happy with them. They all said next time they would pay somebody to build a subframe for them or save some money and do it themselves. I've also noticed when ever a VTEC converted Mini breaks or has an issue it's one of these frames. All the homebuilt frames have been better. So I'd say you are probably better off to get a different one or have one engineered there. I don't think it would be worth shipping one to Aus, then having it engineered and not be happy with it.

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