8 port mini in miniworld

[Neil8p]

in Miniworld about the 8 port clubbie with the nos last night.

Fantasic car and I must admit it's everything I envisaged my 8 port mini becoming (except the nitrous and the clubman front )

But £32000 ???

The car has had a few rebuilds over a period of time, but that is serious dosh.

Then I started mentally totting up what I had spent over the 14 years I've owned my estate.

I reckon I must've spent 20k over the years and all I've got to show for it is an engine that doesn't run very well and a rusty shell in the garden currently being used as a shed

Ah well...

[Neil8p]

My car was reasonably tidy and shiny when I first put it together (not as good as that car though), and I had some proper fun with it which is probably why it's in such a state now

He's selling it now, which I don't understand either. Like you say, build it and drive it.

He's expecting to go to Japan or the USA, but I wonder if he'll get anywhere near 32k for it.

[Neil8p]

The injection system alone probably cost more than my engine, which was build new by Swiftune and cost the same as a decent family car!

If you had that sort of money to spend on a mini, would you buy that, or the twin bike engined mini for 25k? (after the the next royalty cheque had arrived of course I don't believe anyone who buys cars like this actually works for a living)

[Neil8p]

Sounds interesting, can you tell us more.....?

[Neil8p]

Mmmmmm, KAD stuff. Nice

What about the head? 7 port? Turbo?

Know what you mean about a garage. My old prefab garage is leaky, damp, and way too small, but I've this at the bottom of the garden

www.arden8port.plus.com/Pics/garageDscf0007.jpg

Hoping to be done by the end of September

It's 6.3m across the front by 7m down the longest side, the other side being 5.7m

[Neil8p]

I've chopped and changed my mind about fibreglass front ends when looking at reducing weight, but I was inspired by a mini turbo built by a chap called Jon Flanigan (bright yello mini with 10" starmags on it)

His car, IMHO, is what a road legal track day car should be. He's left the structure of the car intact and only replaced boot/bonnet with lightweight panels, fitted perspex windows, stripped the interior of everything not needed and got the suspension setup spot on. The engine has also had a lot of development on it and is powerful and smooth running.

It's very quick and he has a lot of fun with it.

I've tried the track car on the road thing and found it didin't work for me. I've got an idea of where I went wrong so I'm going to have another stab over the winter.

www.turbominis.co.uk/photos/index.php?p=vi&dir=albums/Turbominis%20RR%2009-04-04/&img=IMG_0663.JPG

Edit to add link to pic of Jon's car

>> Edited by Neil8p on Thursday 5th August 11:21

[Neil8p]

haynes said:

What was that godawful song about sunscreen, there was a line 'beauty magazines only make you feel ugly', maybe mini mags have the same effect...

Like it

All my mini's are off the road so I've been driving my wifes 1998 sportpack everyday since January. It's got 40k on it now and it's tired and rusty.

I've just bought a 1988 golf gti for £600. It's 10 years older than the sportpack, 107k miles, it's solid and fairly quick and I'm having great fun driving it.

Cars like this make it difficult to remain faithful to mini's but I'm hangin' on in there...

[Neil8p]

I agree with the grin factor thing. The golf has grin factor at the moment, but then I've only had it a week.

I used to do 600 miles a week in a mini 1000...maybe that's when it stopped being fun

[Neil8p]

I did it for 6 months before I moved house, not much fun in the winter.

Plotloss, have you set yourself a timescale for your mini project?

I've got a Mk I currently having panels replaced and I want to get it back on the road by May next year to do Mizen to Malin.

Mizen Head to Malin Head in a mini - now that is fun