Can anyone recommend a good mini mechanic on Sydney's north shore. I live in Crows Nest.

I wish to have an LCB, an RC40 and twin 1.25 SU fitted and tuned to my 100 Mini K - I have all the parts etc and only want to pay for Labour and Tuning. I was tempted to fit them myself but after all the stories I have heard about mufflers falling off, LCBs not fitting correctly and tuning twins I have had second thoughts

I don't want to pay $1000 plus for the experience

you might need to take a trip over to my way (Castle Hill) and see Ivan at Mini Spares and Repairs. They are decent.

Spoke to him at length and he is definately my favourite atm but getting to and from Castle Hill without a car seems fairly difficult, especially without Trains etc and I was hoping to drop the car off before going to work in North Sydney..

I felt sure I have heard of a guy a Thornliegh

the mob at Thornleigh have gone to Seven Hills....

You see, the Hills is the place to be

I know what you mean about public transport...or lack of it.

I don't know an honest and well priced mechanic on the Nth Shore....

Up until recently I had never lived over this side, always lived in the inner west and since both I and my gf were travelling to the North Shore everyday to go to work we decided to move over here.

Everything is more expensive and they can only work on modern vehicles over this side.

Now I understand the expresion "North Shore Cowboys"

hmmmm... mini.... north shore.....
brookvale?
guys your turn

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71 Mini K

I have to get mine in to do the same things... ask if its possible for a 2 for 1 special..!

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Or a bulk discount.

How did you go with the Wire Loom

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wire loom..? Is that what they call that can of spaghetti sitting in the garage..??

Well what started with replacing the one burnt out wire and the second semi-melted wired has turned into a 6 weekend effort of pulling all the wiring out, installing a new solenoid, new spark plugs, new distributor, new wiring, new relay, half a dozen fuses and a partridge in a pear tree...!!

I am now on a race to get it finished, put it all back together again (because a certain person just had to take out the seats and the roof lining and the dash and the carpet and everything else you can think of) and get it pink slipped before that dreaded 3 months out of registration runs out....



Once thats done, the flares, wheels, seat, custom dash, custom door cards, stereo, roll cage, extractors, exhaust, webber and neons go on... Someone was a busy boy on the side. AND GOD BLESS EBAY

Congrate's or is it Good Luck

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**** brookvale.. rather put the min through a grinder and sprinkle on my cornflakes..

I've finally moved. Mini can begin. Charlie is ensconced in a large, well lit garage with power.. and then some bugger around Melton Vic has almost the same colour scheme I as going to have. Fair dinkum. Back to the drawing board there...

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Dude you gotta be willing to tackle those sort of things or your entire mini experience is gonna be very expensive and frustrating (well even more than usual). I'm seriously not trying to sound patronising but fitting an exhaust and extractors and carby's is seriously a relatively minor job. There's lots of physical dumb labour involved but not much that a mechanic can do better than you (tuning twins is different). You're paying the mech to go under and do all this labour for you at $70 an hour - do you reckon your time is worth that much?

Just plan ahead - buy a new exhaust gasket, carby to manifold and to airfilter gaskets, new manifold studs (if yours are not tip top) 6 brass nuts and washers (cant use steel), exhaust clamps (to put on the joints) and exhaust goo (to seal joints). Exhaust fall from lack of attention and maitenance not from being instaled by a non mechanic (especialy since most mechanics go to an exshaust place to do any exhaust work).

Just take the car to the mechanics to tune the carbys.

mate I would love to do all that, but when you live in a unit and cant work on the car there because the body corporate put a letter in your box telling you to clear out your car parts and when you get in trouble from the parents for takng up their garage for 9 weeks because you want to work on it ... unfortunately its time to find someone to put the bits on for me to get the poor boy on the road..!

I just wanna drive it...!!!

Try Peninsula Sports Cars (I think they are also brookvale way, but not Mini and Moke world which is the one people are referring to). As for dropping it off before work from North Sydney , you'd have to get an early start I would imagine. There are a few who advertise in Aust Classic Car mag - not necessarily Mini specialists but experienced in them nonetheless. MG people would also know the engine and carbs.

Yes I know an MGB doesn't have an A series before others start!