Just when i had it running beautifully
it started to run a bit rough then terriblly

i investigated couldnt see any reason then whilst running sprayefd a bit of "Start ya bastard" around the manifold and she reved up

started looking for the air leak ( carbie was re bushed 4 weeks ago)
still nothing obvious so i pulled the thing of thinking that one of the gaskets had gone
boy did i get a nasty suprise


look what i found




no wonder it was sucking air

any way after sourcing a 2nd hand throttle body for $35 its up and running again
now i have all the mucking around getting the ratios right

i guess its all part of owning a Mini

cheers gadget

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Far out!
How the hell did you crack the throttle body like that?

that sucks man,, but btw i love your clubby, i was going to put chromed fatties on Vivian i have some under the house, but would need to get them re-chromed, so decided agaionst it....but your car loos preety schweet!

Buggered if know

maybe it couldnt handle the G forces

worst part is i had just had the thing rebuilt

is alloy welding good these days is it worth doing or should i just write it off to bad luck??



thanks czerial its still got a long way to go but its getting there when time and money permit and getting the two of them together at the same time

cheers
Gadget

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dude is your new throttle body as shiny as your old one?
thats one beautiful carby
even the butterfly is polished

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Holy crap......................... . Bad luck right there, hope all is well again now, and you can dial the other one in again

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I got nuthin......................

Thats cause it was cracked...



I am intrigued too though. How does something like that crack..? Was it dropped?

No to the best of my knowledge it hasnt been dropped the only thing i can think of is that I may of been a bit over zelous tightening the thing up or it wasnt dead flat not sure.

what i can't understand is why it didnt crack straight away it was fine for 4 weeks then all of a sudden it fails

any ideas?????

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that shouldnt happen, was it the carby place that may have done
it, other than that its just weired

Could it be the steady bars on the engine are a bit sad and the engine has rocked back causing the carby to hit the firewall?

Not hard to alloy TIG weld it, but it's only a bloody HS4... I'd just pull another off the pile in the corner...

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