Started prepping parts to swap the front end over to the modern age of disc brakes on the front.

Also, went for a drive in it

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"In two years time your car will be like a lady's clothes, out of date, my car will still be in fashion when I am dead" - Sir Alec speaking to Pininfarina

I came one step closer to building them a new home! Settlement is on Monday and soon we should start building. Brand new double garage to house the toys! oh and were building a house attached to the garage...

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1971 Mini Clubman 1100
1968 Morris Mini Deluxe 998

http://www.facebook.com/geelongminiclub

"Everybody should drive a Mini, everybody should own a Mini at some point, or you are incomplete as a human being." -James May, about the classic Mini.

Fitted an electric fan under the L/H guard, not on a thermo switch , just a manual switch

Planned on working on it all day. Got sidetracked after work and went past Murray Carters workshop in the way home. All I can say is wow! What An amazing bloke. Spoke for hours. So many good stories told! Hopefully might lead to something

Got the pot joints in. Found out that once I connected the speed cable the speedo pinion drive decided to stop turning. The drive shafts that were once rotating freely were locked solid but after a bit of twisting worked free. I'm thinking the nylon part on the end is spinning freely of the shaft. Decided to cut my loses and continue with the engine instal regardless.

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"Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you'll suck forever" Brian Wilson

Took out the small bore trophy at the Sydney Dyno Day.... all 50.1hp of it!

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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

Murray really is a top bloke.
I pit crewed for him about 20 years ago. A real gentleman.

Pulled the RH door off.

Removed the hinges. Drifted the upper pin out fine.

Found the bottom pin was welded top and bottom. Despite some careful metal removal, broke the hinge getting the pin out.

Currently seeking a replacement hinge.. (see wanted)

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Cheers
Alec
1275LS - July 78 - XNFAD18Y/102918

After 15 years of Cooper S ownership, I have finally fitted a battery holder

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I put the moke's head back together, this time with 1.3 roller rockers instead of 1.5. Viton valve stem seals on the inlets.

I also put the drop gears, housing flywheel etc back together. Lots of new parts and the primary gear is correctly shimmed for the first time in 13 years.

Modified a mini fuel level sender and installed it in the Moke tank.

I hope to get the water pump and head on the Moke engine tomorrow night, getting close now.

Picked up a new km/h speedo for the mini, yes I'm soft.
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Will mention your name next time I see him. His workshop is around the corner from my work so go in there often. Amazing that hes 80 years old and still pilots his z06 vette which he built himself. He has no pit crew or the like simply does it all himself. And he ain't slow either still puts some good lap times up

Ordered a new set of Dunlop Aquajets!!!! (well 2, to replace the fronts that are starting to crack, and one of the fronts will go onto the spare!)

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All I can say is whyyy? I did a motorkhana on them once and that was scary enough.

Dunlop Aquajets would have to be one of the worst tyres ever to be put on a Mini.
Back then Olympic GT radials were much better, if you couldn't afford good tyres (Michelin XAS).

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

I don't think Murray would remember my name. He would just borrow blokes at different tracks to boost his numbers if he was short of crew, I just filled in at a 12 hour meeting when he was running the Nissan production car.