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General specification
Shell
The reason an old shell was used is that the older shells have solid mounted subframes as standard. Also in Norway the older shells are easier to get as they stopped importing minis to Norway in 77.
I found this rather good 1970 shell, but before I had found the money to buy it the wife had given it to me as a birthday present! She is a keeper!
It now sports a full "climbing-frame" style FIA certified rollcage, and most available bodyparts are replaced with carbonfibre/GF items.
This includes:
-doors
-bootlid
-bootfloor
-front end
-roof
-dashboard
-parcel shelf
-spats
Suspension
Suspension wise it has been converted to semitrailing arms and coil overs at the rear, while the front suspension is unchanged in design, except for some rollcentre tweeks. Various cast iron items have also been replaced with titanium or aluminium alloy parts.
It sports double adjustable shocks, and on car adjustable camber and castor at the front ,aswell as trailing angle on the rear. The rest is a bit more tedioust to adjust.
It runs on 7x10" wheels and with dunlop slick in the size of 160/490-10.
Running gear
The engine is a chapter of its own. The block started its life in an old Austin Allegro. They used the same 1275 cc engine as used in the minis, and are good cores for unmodified engineparts.
The block has been drydecked, oilway modified, waterway modified, linebored, fitted with steel bearing caps and bored to 72.5 mm giving a total volume of 1343 cc with the same standard stroke of 81.33 mm.
The 5 port head originally fitted to the A series engine is very restrictive, and was found to weak for this project. Therefore a 16V head from a BMW K1200 RS motorbike head has been modified and made to fit with the block. The borecenters are almost dead on, but the oilways and waterways needed some modifications.
The head is ported and also sports larger inlet valves, reground cams (300/292) and such.
On the inlet side we are mid way through making a set of one of barrel throttles for it. Exhaust is an of the shelf 4-2-1 item ending in a 2.25" bore exhaust pipe.
The power is transfered through the aluminium clutch assembly down through straight cut gears via a 4 speed dog box and a clutch type limited slip differential.
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Headlines
The car will be finished for next season, I am looking for sponsors!
September 2010
some more stuff for the wiring harness ordered as well as fuel and brakelines
August 2010
Wiring is here and the harness is underway
June 10
Wiring for contruction of the new wiring harness is ordered, a total of 158 meters!
March 10
Cage finished installed and certified. The shell have been painted
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