Ran into a guy today at the Cleveland Autospectacular

and his was a vary nice job

he is from down the Gold Coast way

took a few pics for ya















All engineered and regoed

Nice

I usually don't like deseaming on Mini's but that looks nice

I'm glad he didn't deseam the roof gutter. Looks like a pretty nice installation.

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"In two years time your car will be like a lady's clothes, out of date, my car will still be in fashion when I am dead" - Sir Alec speaking to Pininfarina

crap that is sweet!

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Here am I sitting in my tin can far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do...



“A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.” - Jeremy Clarkson

Speaking of which...

I just spent the day out a Mt. Cotton at the hillclimbs, and low and behold, there were some minis there! I thought this one deserved a mention ---



It's a 160hp Teg motor, brakes, dash, etc. 15" wheels The front's been lengthened too, if you look at the back of the bonnet you can see where the normal one finishes... Nice fella, it was his first time out.

if you were down at Mt Cotton you should
have come down to the cleveland show

I wish I knew about it! Looked awesome...

that silver one has been lengthened too.... Peter Dunn in Melbourne has a B16A registered, he's on here

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did I tell you that I won a trophy?

yeh ive already had a chat with him about it.... top bloke, and a great great car....

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Here am I sitting in my tin can far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do...



“A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.” - Jeremy Clarkson

Might as well ressurect this post.
We are doing them - It just takes a while to source the decent engines, that's all.
Well, . . . . actually I managed to find an engine relatively quickly, it was recovering from the heart attack caused by paying the bill that took longer . . . . . .
Seriously though, I think the most time (For me) has been spent on wiring. I hate wiring. Really. When I complete the car (Being registered that is, for when do these things ever get finished?) I am going to post a complete wiring diagram of my car up (Obviously apart from the car alarms & kill switches) so the next poor *@#$^& can do this conversion a little bit easier.
I will also put up a little "How-To" (About 14 pages), which is almost complete. Not everyones cup of tea, but may give some of you an idea or two.

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1.8L Sunshine - Legal, legit & lovinit

cool sounds good look forward to see the how-to write up.

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Cheers Dan

FIRST COMES THE MONEY, THEN COMES THE POWER, THEN COMES THE WOMEN.!!

The silver one is owned by a friend of mine (Nathan) & it`s a bit shorter now,,, a few weeks ago (just before the muster actually) he was driving along , minding his own business, buzzing along happilly & then suddenly "Crack"!!!,,, ball joint brooke off, spearing him into a rather solid object & smashed it up pretty bad,,, about $8.5Ks worth of damage & he was hurt a fair bit too,,, hes back on the mend tho & the car is being repaired, & i believe his insurance is covering it all, so all is good,,, but just wasn`t what he had planned to do,,, so keep your eyes & ears out for this one again,,, it has some serious power under that (slightly longer) bonnet

& another mate of mine (John) has also built a Vtec powered mini for racing,,, quite a fair bit of work too i might add,,, he`s also moved the steering rack back etc etc etc,,, too much work for me really, but a nice job,,, keep an eye out on the race tracks for that one soon too

Vtec bricks are everywhere,,, you just need to know where to look

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.