Honda D16 in standard round nose, almost there!

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Here is my partially completed Honda engined mini in a std round nose, i got this mini a few weeks ago without any running gear, has allot of welding required and needs the wiring done. Also needs a new cylinder head and other bits and pieces finished off, but it has the potential for a good 16v mini!

Dead door pillar and sill =(

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The mini is now named scotty thanks to the inspiring door cards =)

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fancy brake master assembly

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and unfortunately after looking closer at the head the cam pulley has sheared off the cam and the cam is scored and the head is scored...... so a new std head was on the cards but i cant get it for a month soooo iv went for a mini me conversion putting a D16Z6 Vtec head on my D16Z2 block. This should give me around 135 bhp ish

pics of the dead cam and timing pulley....




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Woodriff key is sheared!

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Will put more pics up after repair panels arrive for door post =)

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omg the pics are huge!

[minuki]

ello i remember you from SM

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Hiya, yup im here for a while now. very useful here lol! you have a 16 valver?

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Here is a pic of the new vtec head im putting on the engine.

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Been ages since my last post, too many minis to repair around here!! money is money tho and now iv been able to get some of my own work done!

Decided against fitting the vtec head for the moment as i need to figure out what went wrong in the first place with the old head. So off with the old and on with the new

Finally got the new head from a junker at the local scrappy, took a month for one to come in...........

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block all clean and ready for the head :D

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Had to cut all the lovely rust out over the last few weeks, need to get more photos but here are some of the bits iv been doing

new a post and fitch panel for starters

bad areas that need sorting

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bye bye rust.....

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Hello new panels

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In place ready to be welded up

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Finished off in primer

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Yet another lovely bit patched which was once just filler and cardboard!

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To pay for the repairs on the honda mini iv done some repairs on a m8's mk1.

Some small patches and some not so small patches


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Can still see the patches under the under seal but not too badly

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Looks good in the end :D

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The new rev counter/ water temp/ oil temp/ oil pressure gauge has arrived!!

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Had to get this before i would have preferred but due to a suspect oil pressure problem i had to splash out early!

But unfortunately it is reading about 50 60 psi which i think is normal on startup from cold. I really dont want to run it tho to see if it drops to normal pressure, soo im at a standstill at the moment.

im thinking about replacing the oil pump now just incase but at £81 its not cheap....... Anyone know where i can get one a bit cheaper for a D16Z2 honda SOHC???

Anyone know what else may be the problem? i know there is a pressure regulating valve which sits in the block and i dont know if it can go duff or not??

there is the pickup in the oil pan which may be clogged but the oil was never sludgy anywhere but i just dont know

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[Dowz]

Good looking project. Did you build the subframe? If you did you've done well fitting it in under the standard front, Well done.

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Good looking project. Did you build the subframe? If you did you've done well fitting it in under the standard front, Well done.

Before the car was mine it was a friend of a friends, i fabricated the frame and did the welding but it was his design. Just another welding job lol! I wasn't really interested in 16valvers then, luckily the guy moved to england and wanted shot of the project!! so after finding more about the engine that he fitted from the helpful folk on here i bought it!

I think ill do the next one differently, people on here have done some amazing jobs on their frames! Given me so many ideas!!

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Not done much this week due to having last uni exams, but got a litle done yesterday. Played about with my spray gun testing it on the rear quarter lol!

Its getting rubbed down and done properly at some point but i couldn't resist

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put the step panel in today and have re-attached the fibreglass rear valance(for the last time i hope!) painted a section of the inside and it looks quite good. Just need to take all the junk out to do the rest!

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decided to get another engine last week as im having issues with oil pressure in mine, got a whole front cut from the scrappy today with everything that i need to build anther d16 mini after i get this one done. Here is some photos of the front cut of the 416 sli.

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will be attacking it this weekend, getting the engine and all the other goodies out that i need.

so hopefully will get the car moving by its self in a few days with the new engine in place :D

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new engine has been stripped and now rebuilt and fitted and it runs!!! the shell is not nearing a solid condition and has been shootsed underneath and the ream beam is built up and reconed radious arms and hubs installed. next job is getting the brakes sorted and some form of interior, wil upload pictures soon

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new rocker cover buffed back before paint

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engine pre installation

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the frame

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rocker cover painted

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engine going in

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sump after its been modified, cant really see much lol!

car moved under its own power today after i set up the shafts and suspension, yay!!