Juicy mini

[dev_j41cyy]

i had bought my mini a couple of years ago it was a 998cc mini city for £300 from northhamton. i had changed it to a met1275 lump as a friend had 1 lying around.this is the mini after the 1275 went in

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i had chopped the whole front end off as it was rotten.so the wings and scuttle is new. also managed to get hold of some sport pack arches which made the car look wide

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the car was ready for a respray
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meanwhile my m8 had a minor crash in his mini and i saw his arches get mullered and i had a thought

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got a friend to help me out a bit more need wider
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got the door skin replaced
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the car is ready to go to the spray booth......
6 months later the garage took their time with the respray. :evil:
but the jobs done well. i had bought a corrado meanwhilelove it to bits

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it s really wierd gettin in to a mini wen you drive a big car.
the mini looks amazing

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got it home and a few weeks later
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took the car in for mot it failed :evil: :evil:
it had the minispeed brace bars but apparently it was not strong enough
they did not even notice that i had changed the engine
the car stayed in my garage since jan08

last month the ball really got rolling again as i got home from staying a year at uni i saw my mini and felt sad for it. i had my fun in the corrado it had to go got a very good offer on the car and the plates but i am gonna hold on to the plates and transfer it over to the mini :wink:
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have a lot of friends and honda maniacs so decided to go vtec
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NOTHING, NA, beats VTEC power

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this is the wiring loom honda
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need to get on another pc for more pics

[dev_j41cyy]

descided to go for a b18c4 out of a aerodeck with an lsd :lol: so i can leave 2 long treads when i do a burnout.
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it was a 99 aerodeck
engine code b18c4
gearbox s9b E5 lsd diff
i want to run the mini on a honda loom fully clocks barrel honda key so its gonna b a long procedure
the gearbox needed a clean and som high temp paint
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now the block
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nice piece of engineering internal 4 butterflys but it needs to go got a skunk 2 1
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took a week but got the engine assembled
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now the car the front end is removed and put into my back yard
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watsons setup
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got my new manifold
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one word of advice when dooing this conversion always buy a recently crashed honda like the whole car as you are goin to need a lot of things which you will have to buy after which becomes expensive b16 is to expensive b18c4 available in plenty b18c type r lump if you got the money ??
when i stripped the engine i did not remomove the d/shafts so this following part i had to buy a second hand set d/shafts which cost me a lot it is ver imp dont forget to remove it from the honda it is a dirt job to remove it but had to be done uuuuuuugggggghhhhhhhhh :? :? :? :| :x :x :evil: .f***** b******
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before the engine went in had to figure out the wish bone stup and the top arm and the hi lows
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:evil: the manifold did not fit had to put th e old 1 in it looks ugly!!
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the wiring is a night mare it has taken me 3 weeks to sort the wiring out
also realised need the matchin barrel and key and immobiliser f***
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it felt i was being haunted by the multimeter while i was sleeping during this period
ive ordered a short ratio rack still w8in for it so till that arrive i cannot proceed also waiting for the brake and clutch mater so car on stand still need to concentrate on wiring

decided to get a hondata s300 system removes the factory immobilisor
and give you a fully remappable honda with many other features such as launch control vtec control

the b18c4 off a aero deck is a obd2 need to get the obd1 wiring which has only the knock sensor missing
i have a p28 ecu of a b16a obd1
had to get my soldering gear out to do this
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i think i have the loom sorted at least fot it to start will c.
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i have lights the honda instrument panel works bar the fuel guage i went and got some oil fired it up i did not expect the engine to fire up i was only hoping for crank but it fired pured ran for 2 min and it ran out of fuel.
after a 5 jerry can it cranked it ran again this time it ran for 15 -20 min the fan nor the thernmostat turned on so i have a problem there but with no cat or back box or intake the car sounds mad loud. my neighbour is a OAP so he ran out and told me turn that racket off. every thing is on stand still till my parts arrive.

[dev_j41cyy]

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[billyboy83]

Hi mate

Good looking build you have going on there. Liking the corrado, can swear i have seen your plate before or one quite like it.

Billy

[duck]

ive ordered a short ratio rack

Do you mean a quick ratio steering rack ?

If you do then I just thought I'd let you know that member colin ab fitted a quick rack to his watsons setup and found it was to twitchy (dangerous) when travelling at motorway speeds, I believe he went back to a standard rack.

Everyone else is using the standard rack as far as I know with no complaints.

Keep up the good work :D

[dev_j41cyy]

thanks yeh i go to univ of hertforshire you might have seen it about in hatfield or st albans so the plate was on the corrado b4 but ive sold the corrado retained the plates. reguarding the rack i have a quick ratio 1 coming alog with a few other goodies. my friend has a fiat punto breaking will b remioving the EPS electronic power steering coulmn to get attachet to the to the quick ratio rack. as these column have a ecu which need s a signal from the honda VSS vehical speed sensor for it to give u lighter steering with slow speeds and harder with increase of speed.

[Owen]

Those arches are a work of art! They look amazing :D

[dev_j41cyy]

more pics
got a 2.5" powerflow system done and the gear linkages sorted

few pics b4 it went in to the garage
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the pipe
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the car back home it drives !!!!!! but doesnt brake yet need to sort the brakes
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[matt]

Looking good but wasnt the front you had on it a standard round nose? So you will have to cut those archs up to make it longer. :( .

Do a burnout with those micky mouse wheels and put it on youtube :)

[dev_j41cyy]

i have actually thought about that havet got to that stage yet but hope fully i will cut the front end without cutting the arches i dont kno !!!

[Bfeboi]

did u have to cut the firewall to fit the skunk manifold or was it a straight bolt on job wif watson frame?
i'm still trying to figure out wat to do wif my manifold

[dev_j41cyy]

well you need to get a skunk 2 it does have clearance but the idle control hits it has 2 water pipes i had to remove the whole water system from the throttle n idle control. i have seen other people remove it. well i have the left and r/h mount on and there is engine movement when i move in gear does make the engine dip backwards. dont kno how the back g/box mount attaches on the bush side?? so it touches. a bit might have to get custom torque damper or stiffer mounts. if u r at the stage with the engine out would advise the bulk head cut as it safer. i might have to get the bulk head done i dont kno yet !!
stuck on the fuel guage cant get it to work!! advice any 1

[BassAddict]

Really like those arches - they must've taken a fair few hours !!!
Looks like its almost finished - nice one :) On word of caution though - I have a Megane sat on my drive with a seized engine cos I had an air intake low down at the front like yours - in some very bad rain last winter I followed some other cars into a little dip under a railway line - but unlike them I didn't make it out of the other side as the nice low intake quickly filled the engine with water and it came to an abrupt stop - guessing there's a few bent rods in there as it makes a nice clunk if you try and turn it over, or push it in gear ! :lol:
Rich

[dev_j41cyy]

the car is still in the begining stages with body work so i am not sure have a cold feed pipe and a cda carbon induction filter might put some thing to gether, but it sound like a dyson when i give it a bit of throttle at the mo the car is still garaged so no problem with water there. still doin the wiring the car need to be out of the garage and the weather is very s*** at the mo so cant proceed effeciently.
bought some square bars from bnq 1.5mm thich gonna have a go at makin a custom front strut brace bolting it to the left and right side of watsons frame and the bolting it on the bulk head might get some pics in when i start !!!!

[dev_j41cyy]

some more pics
the clearance with a skunk 2 without cutting the bulkhead
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front pics
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corrado hinges with some bars closed
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open
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nrg torque dampner (trial fit)
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front end trial fit
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seems to be floating in air cant even c the tyres its to hi
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a scary sight
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got all light working
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i hate wiring

[grant]

is it still for sale

[dev_j41cyy]

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[dev_j41cyy]

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[2many]

Wow!

That's a hell of a lot of work gone into that :shock:
Nicely done, those arches are indeed a work of art.

[billyboy83]

Thats looking good mate nice little update.

[dev_j41cyy]

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been driving the car about ? the rack is very unsafe !! so needs to be replaced it drives all over the place.

gave my wish bones to an engineering firm to mill a slot in tem for camber adjustment as it was out by 1.25deg it drives better but again needs alignment got mg ball joints
qsj1147s
qsj1148s
seems to have made a some difference i think i had the wishbones the other way round when it went in the body shop i 'Think' so i am no t happy with the result

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does the ride height make a diff with camber ?
needs a lot of allignment

the non servo assisted braking is very very dangerous need a servo.
try braking with left foot it works lol !!!!

just ordered my compomotive ML's 28 delivery time what a b**** !!
very happy with the car apart from steering.needs sorting. gave a 200sx a run for it money on the way to uni.

[ludsonline]

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Hi M8,
Excellent build you have done, Just one small observation. You may need to alter the angle of your front end as you will not be able to adjust your headlight enough...

See Below for comparison.


http://www.16vminiclub.com/gallery/albums/userpics/mini1small.JPG

[dev_j41cyy]

my m8 ride
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new soles
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front 7jx13 tyre pirelli 185/55/13
rear 9jx13 tyre khumo motorsport hard 235/45/13

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test fit
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braided hoses and rear camber brackets minispeed

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arch work fiber glass and poly styrene(roof foam)

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[dev_j41cyy]

some more updates
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needed some cooling bonnet was getting really hot
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[Freebies]

I really really like the wide wheels....


But ther is deffinatly something wrong with the front end... seams wrong, with that tilted front end. Good luck with the adjustments.

[dev_j41cyy]

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What software are you runnign on your laptop?

Been looking for something like that for a loooooooong time!

Is it honda specific, or is it just generic obd2?

[dev_j41cyy]

This is for a honda only!! The ecu i have has the hondata s300 chip installed which can be mapped or read using usb. Its a p28 obd1 ecu the hondata is a chip which needs to be soldered to the ecu try cpl motorsport fo the chip costs about £350-400.will cost extra to be installed if you not good at electrics, you will have to supply the p28.
if you running obd2 then you can get a coversion harness to a obd1 then use the p28.
if you are looking for 1 let me know !

[sirkieran_1986]

hello where did u get yr large wheels and tyres from ?

[caveman]

just been having a ganders on ebay and see you got your project up for sale,mate you wanna stick a ad in the for sale section on here there has been a few newbies after cars good luck with the sale have you got any plans for another project

[dev_j41cyy]

cheers for that. i am just flat out broke so the reason for sale. cant drive it every day cant sit in it and admire it cant be with it every day its hard it s just another b****.if it sells might go back and do another vtec mini but try and save money (buy a mig/tig welder) and diy spaceframe using crome moledeum. i am studying structural analysis i am using my mini as a final year proj. involves putting the tdk spaceframe cat design through 120 different crash simulations and gather the data. which should keep me safe !
well if it doesnt save money and start on the rear of my car beam conversion discs,anti-roll bar