Just wondering what you can legally do to a mini to make it as light as possible?
My idea is;
Gut the doors,
Replace all glass except the front windscreen with race grade perspex,
cut out the rear seat and side bins,
Fiberglass bonnet and boot,
Rear beam axle, light sway arms and coil overs,
Minimal dash and steering coloum furniture.
Stuff like that. For safety and rigidity it would probably need a roll cage.
Any other ideas or do you know what is legal after engineering?

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Respect mine and I'll respect yours.

Back seat is lighter than roll cage so leave it in. Carbon fibre bonnet, boot and doors.

Alloy Head
Titanium Rods
Ally Radiator
Remove Heater Unit and replace with electric heater blower
Magnesium or Carbon Fibre rims
no spare
1/2 tank of fuel where ever you go.
Straight through system with no muffler
no sound proofing.
no bumpers
Tin pulley on crank and not a dampener
Plastic fan
light weight Alternator
light weight Starter motor
lightened Crank
Lightened Flywheel
single carb
No sunvisors
Alloy engine stays....

Lots of other things you could do but it would only be measured in grams and not kilos..

cut off all the bolts that stick out past the nuts and throw em into a tin and see how much you take off.

Drill holes, lots of them. Holes weigh very little.

Cut the front inner guards out.
Cut the boot floor out and replace with aluminum or carbon....
something like this maybe?

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68 Mini
70 Moke

cut the roof out, replace with carbon fibre roof from Curly CF... the roof weighs a lot!

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tim
68 Deluxe 1293, HIF44, megajolt/EDIS4, daihatsu alternator..

'a mini is for life, not just for christmas!'

Put the driver on a diet

Do a mini sprint conversion.

Bout 7 - 8 years ago i got to drive Jaan Fox's Sprint replica. This car is awsome, it had no speedo so i don't know how fast i went but i know i got 7500rpm in 4th Then i broke the fibreglass front when it spat the belt

It had:
Less metal in the body
No trim
No boot floor
A small fuel cell
A small battery in the middle of the car
Fibreglass flip front
All perspex windows except the front
Gutted doors
1 seat
No speedo
Holes throughout both subframes, starter, dizzy, alt, clutch cover and flywheel housing
1 alloy tube gear selector rod
Alloy pedals also with holes
1 awesome engine

I cant remember what else but there was probably more.

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Dean Hutton's first car was a Mini.

start from an empty shell, only put the most necessary items in, replace doors, boot floor, flip front, boot lid, beaver panel with carbon fibre.... alloy hinges, drill holes in places, magnesium wheels, alloy rear quarter panels, no spare tyre, fuel cell, jump start it everywhere, single carbon seat, lightweight steering wheel, no dash & make sure it's a round nose to improve aerodynamics....& then there's the engine

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one van, one mini s, one knitted cardigan

pics?

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why not just buy a moke

I think roleyfoley has the right idea....

and leave the stereo and dynamat out of it .

Some good ideas coming up from people , don't automatically think that fiberglass is lighter than steel though and make sure the roll cage you put in to improve body strength isn't heavier than the steel you removed that reduced body strength .

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better still buy a rusty moke

you've seen it before Scott....










530kg

Maybe I have, but even so... wow!

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