Got Me A New Toy .......

No, thought that might be a bit OTT for a couple of Novice trophies

 

That’ll be you pissed at the end of the season then

 

Had a good look at them, quality is fantastic, castings as good as OE, which if I'm honest, the ones for the Jag weren't quite as good.
Painting new one's off the car is much nicer than struggling with them attached and rusty

 

Sump guard made.

I'm sure the cardboard will be plenty stong enough. The brackets holding the wooden baton up are made of aluminium metal, they should be well strong.

 

If you think back, I got 4 steel wheels for a tenner. Pretty good deal. Bettered it, four alloys and a set 5 semi-slick Toyo R888's for ............




........£0.00.

From a Mk1 Clio should fit ok, same 4x100 pcd, will check tomorrow that they clear the front caliper.


There's a single wheel on eBay for £75 !!!!

 

They might look ok in the picture, but they are barely legal tread depth on them. If I get the chance, might chuck them on a dry day and run around the block, but that would be all.

Plan is to get a set of these



which are roughly the same circumference as the 205/55 x 16 OE tyres, bigger sidewall will give less chance of snakebite punctures when you hit cattlegrids at 60+.



Not allowed full-on gravel tyres when competng in Targa rallies, have to be E marked and therefore road legal to compete. The gravel tyres, like I have for grass autotesting, chew the feck out of forest / farm roads, so not permitted on most Targa's. The Nankang's (World's 3rd largest tyre producer !!!), have MFS which stands for reinforced sidewalls. Pal of mine that gave me the wheels, runs them. Alloys on his clio are kerbed (rocks on stages, rather than kerbs) to feck and no damge on the tyre !!! I'm sold

 

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fucking, fuckity fucking fucker

Calipers identical. Except the banjo bolt is M10 instead of M12 as per originals



What useless cnuts would produce these.

Plan is to try and acquire M10 banjo bolts, if they don't fit and seel, will take calipers and get them drilled and threaded to accept M12.

Painted them so can't send them back now

 

Already have a set of taps buti their not standard thread. I 'think it's M12 X 1.0, which make it a fine pitch. I have some thread guages somewhere, but can't lay my hand on it, will look at work tomorrow.

Plus I don't have the ability to clamp them down and be sure they are square. If not dead square, the bolt won't seal onto the face. This is the hard part tbh.

 

I'm usually happy to hack/bodge a solution, but not with braking, and not with the way this wee car is going to get hammered doing rallies.

Even if it costs me £20 to get them machined, still a cheap solution to knackered rear calipers

 

Spotlights on the Mini, were like indicators on a BMW, merely decorative. So new pair of 7" LED lights fitted today. Wanted to make use of the brackets that were on, so had to modify the grille. Was going to do it at some point in time, but done to facilitate new lights. Cooling should be helped, as there was a lot of plastic behinds the OE grille.

Before


After






Going out for a run once dark, I'll stick the camera on, just as a practice for filming our night navigational rallies.

 

When it goes dark, that's the headlights on dipped !!!
When you can see anything, that's me new LED lights
Need a bit of adjusting, aim is a little low, but not bad for a guess first setting.



Update: Just been out and elevated by 5 degree's, spot on (pun intended)

 

Welding up the front crossmember, to attach the sump guard to. Quite pleased with my welding, haven't done any in about 5 years!!!








Tested !!!

 

Yeah that's my workshop. I'll take some photos next week, so you can see it full. Only good thing about the whole place. Had to use my own welder, been in over a year and still no plug on the new one supplied Not allowed to do myself

Provide their own overalls and boots.

 

So this is my workshop. Can't complain.