 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Car Forum / MINI / December 2003Vtec Mini - Project Car
Right Its Time! Its time to start on my project car, Ive decided im gonna have a dabble at building a Vtec Powered Mini. Ive had a look at lots of articles from various sources, has anyone done this DIY Stylee before? Any Advice or Problems that anyone has encountered when trying this before? Im really excited about doing this, and my father who was hesitant at first is coming around to the Idea (His Garage im going to be consuming) Thanks In Advance Tom > Right Its Time! > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Tom You may have to move to the other group want no buggered mini's here :) > > Its time to start on my project car, Ive decided im gonna have a dabble at > > building a Vtec Powered Mini. > You may have to move to the other group want no buggered mini's here :) He's more likely to find useful information about butchering an Issigonis Mini here than in the BMW group, and he'll provide some light relief from more "normal" Mini issues. Keeping the classic mini on the roads is hard enough - getting harder due to the depleted mg metro sources, so other engine transplants like the honda 1.6 vtec,vauxhall astra 2.0l and possibly bike engine(s) have to be considered. The way i look at it is, as long as its basically a mini shell, who cares - more to the point - no one else will realise that you can beat an xr3i and such off the lights in a little mini. go on tom is my veiw. Read mini world at all? one of their extra magazines is Keeping Your Mini Alive (KYMA) and one of the later issues has a step by step guide (using a purchased spaceframe). maybe take a look. best wishes in makeing a quick as sh!t off a shiny shovel mini. Ryan > > > Tom Phillips wrote: > > > Its time to start on my project car, Ive decided im gonna have a dabble at > > > building a Vtec Powered Mini. > > ops wrote: > > You may have to move to the other group want no buggered mini's here :) > Graham wrote: > He's more likely to find useful information about butchering an > Issigonis Mini here than in the BMW group, and he'll provide some light > relief from more "normal" Mini issues. > Keeping the classic mini on the roads is hard enough - getting harder due to > the depleted mg metro sources, so other engine transplants like the honda [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Issigonis Mini here than in the BMW group, and he'll provide some light > > relief from more "normal" Mini issues. Mini's are so versatile, we did lots of engine swaps in the 70s ,,with Austin 1300 & MG 1300 engines ,,, these basically went straight in, but made the mini move like it was on Steroids, GO FOR IT TOM Fitzy Here's a good website: http://minimikebc.tripod.com/ Mike took the 100% diy route. If you want to buy a subframe, one of the SAMOA club members here in Seattle is producing a really nice one Cheers, Kelley >Right Its Time! > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >Tom Look at http://www.16vminiclub.com/forums/ Also for ready made subframe kits look up watsons conversions site with google. > Right Its Time! > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Tom Thanks for the Support guys, My initial Idea was to go for the R1 conversion and have the lot done by zcars, but I didn't like the fact of having an engine thats only meant to shift 250kg running nearly every day ( I still want to use this car most of the time). Plus the cost escalated quite quickly and it looked like the whole thing was going to cost around 10k. Ryan : thanks for the info on KYMA i'll go and snoop that out tomoz, I have found various sites on with info. If anyone who hasnt seen it check out http://www.ringmini.de/English_Version/-Videos-/-videos-.html the top two of the vids on that is one going around the Nuremberg ring, it really is quite insanely fast. I've seen ones that have been done with extending the front end or a flip open bonnet, again this is something im not that keen on, want to keep the shell orginal. This is not going to be a quick project, and because of that it means I have the advantage of being able to spend more money over time, its going to be a complete new build so a full strip down of a mini (still yet to be purchased) and I dont think im expecting any change from 10k but every single penny is going to be worth it I know that much. Again thanks for all of your postive feed back and suggestions and I will keep you upto date with the progress as I go along! -- Tom Phillips Race Team, Reviews, News and Forum Admin email: tom@heyIhatespamsoutherndownhill.com Southerndownhill.com > Look at http://www.16vminiclub.com/forums/ > Also for ready made subframe kits look up watsons conversions site with [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > > > Tom |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.