Lets face it, most of us mini fans are tight arses, and if aren't tight arses we were dirt poor teenagers once with no money.

Yes we all have Champaign tastes on Beer bugdets from time to time and we all like to talk big about buying the latest and gear from the UK,,, But then the little "man gremlins" get going and we start "inventing" or finding cheap solutions to problems using.... lets face it crap, out of our sheds.

I thought it would be a hoot to hear about the dumb stuff that people have dreamt up to fix problems or make their cars go faster... and don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about, if you own a mini,,, your guilty

A couple of examples to get us going, when I was a tight arse young teenager, I had an 1100 van padock basher... now I read about "Ram tuning" in a book and thought it was just the thing that my sad ol' 1100 needed to give it a bit of extra... something... So I couldn't afford a ram pipe of my own, I had no money. But I had a head full of dreams and a can of Bog. So I fashioned my very own stub stack out of bog and sanded it to shape using examples from the book... now your all going "what a dip sh1t" right? Crazy thing is, I stuck it on my Dads friends flow bench and it actually worked!!! A whole 4% increase in flow!! I thought I was king of the hill .... and I swear it made the van go faster... honestly

Now if thats not your cuppa tea, than the other example I had, admittedly isn't mine it's someone elses, was something a little more practical for all you family folk

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Check it out! little dude is eating brakefast on his parents mud gaurd using a clamp on high chair!!! another example of a cheap easy solution to a problem that all us mini/moke folk encounter in a our daily lives!!!


Lets here from someothers with there examples of Crazy Back Yard S*** That Shouldn't Have Worked.... But did! Don't be shy

That looks like Watto's moke......

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDMkVq1jRGU

Close BALLISTIC close,,,,,It's not watto's moke though

In the old days, we would have been called tight arses.

Today we are greenish recyclers.

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1966 Morris Mini Deluxe
.... 4 bicycles and 3 screaming kids.

this is all true but not so much now due to police highly enforcing defects on cars, im all up for rolling out the home grown ideas but inless there hidden your going to get caught out pritty quickly as sad as it is. i love this kind of innovation but sadly the RTA dont, even though sometimes its safter than stock!!

BILL

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So, is there a list of `improvements' we cannot now have?
Is this list related to the year of the car?
If they are `period correct' modifications that were OK back then, why not now?

Where is our resident HP walloper... hey, Scotty??


IMO don't call attention to yourself and you won't get caught.

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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.

ok this didn't catch on the way i thought it might oh well my mistake.

Here's another example that Mick reminded me of... See if you can guess whats going on





Its my little hot tank!!! great for those small jobs like overflow tanks, subframe parts, small children, anyway.

Yes Mick, the "tea" does taste funny around here,,, but its not cos dad quenched the pistons in the water tank BTW I was wondering why the hell you asked about that until I went back and read my post my old man is over and he was talking to me sorry mate, not to good at multi tasking

I hear you can really dissolve the bodies down to nothing that way...

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

yeah well don't tell everyone ok!!!

No worries PK, it's just between us and the rest of the Internet

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Simon

The adventures of an owner builder in the Tallarook Ranges

You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together.
And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig crap, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".

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Simplify and add lightness

Going to work tomorrow and relieving them of the urn in the brew room Cool idea phats

Are we on the internet I thought this was a private chat room and it all true - truely

look just cos you guys all said that I look like chopper it doesn't make me a killer... I'M INOSCENT!!!!! I didn't do it!!!!


EDIT--> Mini Maxx, if your going to try and make a caustic tank, just remember,, NO ALLOYS AND NO GALVANISED PARTS,,, I learnt the hard way so you don't have too I have another hot thank I made out of a site box, its 90 odd litres and I heat it with the eliments out of electric fry pans (3 for them).... only problem is that it takes a long time to heat up, thats why I have the small one as well.

Ummm.. this certainly fits the description "Crazy back yard sh_t that shouldn't have worked... but did

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The adventures of an owner builder in the Tallarook Ranges