It looks good I used my mates cooper for a while and they are nice cars to drive
It looks good I used my mates cooper for a while and they are nice cars to drive
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Last edited by L33 LEG; 25-05-20 at 05:53 PM.
looking good dude
The engines are surprisingly easy to work on. Serious jobs need the front of the car taking off but it uses a modular front end so it just unbolts with the radiator etc still attached exposing the front of the engine.
The exhaust should be fairly simple but you might need to ditch the spare wheel. If the exhaust is from a pre 2005 car it will be okay. late 2004 onwards cars used different hangers.
Springs bring them down a little but looking at your previous cars I think you will end up on coilovers soon
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Last edited by L33 LEG; 25-05-20 at 05:53 PM.
The Mini should have been a 1275 GTBut you know what iM like with the 90s.
Loving the garage !!!!
EDIT: Oh BTW, i thought youd of had soMe dirty calendars up in there by now rather than just a fire exit sign
Last edited by LEWI007; 16-06-12 at 11:49 PM.
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Last edited by L33 LEG; 25-05-20 at 05:53 PM.
At least the BMW mini doesn't rust with a passion and in an original mini going to be dead in a carpark crash
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Last edited by L33 LEG; 25-05-20 at 05:53 PM.
i learnt to spanner things when i was in my early teens cos my sister bought a 1973 850 mini... and it promptly fell apart..Originally Posted by L33 LEG
I used to be a massive mini fan when i was a kid. When i was 16 looking to buy my first car i even went to buy a 2000 plate red cooper with silver roof and strips with the sportspack. My dad test drove it and said that there's no way im learning in one of them because of how old they felt
The old ones are very cool but over the past year or so iv realised that it was a good thing it moved onto a new one. Although i wouldnt mind a classic one with a vtec engine in for a laugh
Im loving working in the garage, apart from needing to paint the bottom of the walls with a more waterproof or better paint it's all good (i knew it was going to show anyway).
old mini's are in no way safe in a crash, but in their day they were great fun to drive, but issigonis really got the rust traps right on this design...why do you see more moggie minors than minis??
as for the garage wall paint.. if damp is coming out, don't try to stop it, or the wall will fail.. decent masonry paints breathe.
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