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I think this is the time to open a new thread here, because last week I finally started my own Suzuki conversion. I have been reading along already for a while getting ideas how to tackle this.
The donor car will be a 1973 Clubman with polyester front. I built this car years ago to be fitted with a Metro Turbo engine. Unfortunately I blew up the engine after 200 kms. I was so fed up with that that I sold the car to a friend 3 years ago.
This year he said that he was going to sell the car and very quickly I decided to buy the car back to turn it into a street/circuitracer with A-series engine. But shortly after I that talked to somebody who was going to do a Suzuki conversion.
First he was going to do the subframe for me, but due to circumstances that never materialized. By then I already bought a wrecked Suzuki Swift Gti followed by another one a bit later.
The only solution was to start myself. I can do some welding but I am not an ace at it, the result maybe does not look that great always, but I think strong enough.
When the decision was made to give it a go I decided to go a step further and bought a complete turbo set-up. So the project will be converting a 1275 Mini Clubman into a Mizuki Clubman Turbo.
The donor car:
We started by welding a jig around a standard Mini subframe:
Then cutting off the not needed parts from the subframe and seamwelding a lot of joints for extra strenght.
Working on the fixings op the bottom arms:
How it looks now:
Next week i will continue working towards the front. Because of the turbo the front bar has to be low I think but will see what is the most useful. I have a clubman front so a bit more space to work with than under a roundnose.
Dennis
The donor car will be a 1973 Clubman with polyester front. I built this car years ago to be fitted with a Metro Turbo engine. Unfortunately I blew up the engine after 200 kms. I was so fed up with that that I sold the car to a friend 3 years ago.
This year he said that he was going to sell the car and very quickly I decided to buy the car back to turn it into a street/circuitracer with A-series engine. But shortly after I that talked to somebody who was going to do a Suzuki conversion.
First he was going to do the subframe for me, but due to circumstances that never materialized. By then I already bought a wrecked Suzuki Swift Gti followed by another one a bit later.
The only solution was to start myself. I can do some welding but I am not an ace at it, the result maybe does not look that great always, but I think strong enough.
When the decision was made to give it a go I decided to go a step further and bought a complete turbo set-up. So the project will be converting a 1275 Mini Clubman into a Mizuki Clubman Turbo.
The donor car:
We started by welding a jig around a standard Mini subframe:
Then cutting off the not needed parts from the subframe and seamwelding a lot of joints for extra strenght.
Working on the fixings op the bottom arms:
How it looks now:
Next week i will continue working towards the front. Because of the turbo the front bar has to be low I think but will see what is the most useful. I have a clubman front so a bit more space to work with than under a roundnose.
Dennis
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