Said good bye to them as I was off to the Gold Coast today!

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Drove the new mini to work to check for any issues prior to a longer drive at the weekend.
Goes very well, although slightly more noisy than I would have liked, but hey it's a mini.

It also really does need the Supercharger......

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1969 Cooper "S"
1967 Mini Deluxe
1973 Clubman Van (the fleet spare)
1978 ex 1275 LS ("Wizard" Eaton Supercharged)
2015 HSV GenF GTS(occasional drive & tow car)
2019 MINI F55 Cooper S

Replaced the front suspension with -1.5° fixed lower arms and adjustable tiebars.
Not driven it yet but it looks better.

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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.

Drove him to drop some stuff off at a mates (around 5km) started to sound funny and 'out' got him back home, totally forgot to tighten the head when warm last week, so, re-torqued head to 42ft, adjusted tappets to .017", played with the idle smoooooth as a nut now...
also booked him in for a wheel alignment first thing tomorrow morning

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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

Well we yancked the old donk out. Took 5min mind you the bonnet was already off as was everting else in the engine bay.

Now all we have to do is paint engine bay & every other part of the car (I'm not keen on "SAM BROWN" )

I prefer ORANGE (we have 4Lt) but the owner (my 11yrold) wants light blue.

then rewire
then install new(good 2nd hand 998)
then replace breaks
then upolstery (all of it)
Then reinstall glass
etc etc

Sorted out the shocks on my buggy and dropped an engine in it. Also started to work on the sheeting the body so all those nasty rocks and pointy sticks don't come near me and my unlucky passenger.



angled the rear shocks forward a bit to make them "compress" in a straight line.

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Respect mine and I'll respect yours.

Drove to Harrys Cafe de wheels in Parra for lunch, I needed a pie..
[edit] Oops and also I gave it a bath...

There used to be a Jesters Pies near me, but they shut up shop.
When I googled to find their nearest one now, it's in Kalgoolie!
Bit of a drive from Sydney....

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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.

Took it off the axle stands for it's journey to Matt Reads tomorrow. I wonder what he's going to think of it when it arrives

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

Bought a new 12G295 head cant wait to send it off

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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.

Bought:

walnut 3 x 3 dashboard
Smiths 52mm combined oil pressure/water temp guage
Smiths 52mm analogue clock
Smiths 52mm volts guage
New Pioneer head unit with iPod/iPhone control
SC-12 supercharger
all the ancilliary bits and pieces for above guages
PM-ed "92" about a supercharger kit for above mentioned SC-12

List is not exhaustive and will keep on updating.

Hooroo

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Rob Forsyth
Miniot!!

washed and polished the beasty,wedding car tomorrow,couple of bridesmaids to transport,hope it does not rain.

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First you get the money,then you get the power,then you get the Mini.

Cut out and welded in a less perforated floor on the passenger side. Came within 2 millimetres of cutting right through the brake pipe under the floor, because I didn't think to check under before started the angle grinder. A lesson cheaply learned...

Changed the oil & filter
Put a new cold air intake pipe to the filter
Cleaned the K&N Filter
Washed the car twice and waxed her.

Picked up my swinging panels from the Soda Blaster
Just need to organise a day to drop off bare shell and panels to the panelbeater

Coffee! Good on ya Andy!
I pulled apart some Master cylinders and met Neil-user name Tobermary.

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Dog Food! Most kids like it more than Broccoli.