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[Marks DTM Calib]

The competition never caught up (or tried) to with the landrover and it did get some development like engines, suspension etc.

The mini didn't, the A series is a crap engine and still was right upto its final long overdue demise, the gearbox is horrible (and whines in all gears!) plus you simply cant stop selector shafts from leaking, the drive shafts break, there un-comfortable, the driving position is awful, the space inside is awful.....hence why the sales dropped off a cliff in the 80's....

A truely awful example of british engineering......great when released and then left to rot in the corner.....

[Kevin Wood]

It amazed me that they messed about for so long trying to get injection working on the A-series engine - especially the port injection setup which was always going to be a total kludge on an engine with siamese inlet ports. It should have got the bullet as soon as carbs weren't an option, and probably long before.

I guess there was no engine in the parts bin that would drop straight in and no budget to mod anything (but plenty of budget to fart around with the engine management).

Kevin

[amigov6]

The competition never caught up (or tried) to with the landrover and it did get some development like engines, suspension etc.

The mini didn't, the A series is a crap engine and still was right upto its final long overdue demise, the gearbox is horrible (and whines in all gears!) plus you simply cant stop selector shafts from leaking, the drive shafts break, there un-comfortable, the driving position is awful, the space inside is awful.....hence why the sales dropped off a cliff in the 80's....

A truely awful example of british engineering......great when released and then left to rot in the corner.....

Yeah but first in & out the corner. You're right on many points, whilst they've got issues they've got character which many better engineered cars sadly lack. I hope when i post the finished pics you like it just a teeny bit just to look at!!!
       P.S I still owe you a tenner!???

[Baron Von Spongebob]

The competition never caught up (or tried) to with the landrover and it did get some development like engines, suspension etc.

The mini didn't, the A series is a crap engine and still was right upto its final long overdue demise, the gearbox is horrible (and whines in all gears!) plus you simply cant stop selector shafts from leaking, the drive shafts break, there un-comfortable, the driving position is awful, the space inside is awful.....hence why the sales dropped off a cliff in the 80's....

A truely awful example of british engineering......great when released and then left to rot in the corner.....

Yeah but first in & out the corner. You're right on many points, whilst they've got issues they've got character which many better engineered cars sadly lack. I hope when i post the finished pics you like it just a teeny bit just to look at!!!
       P.S I still owe you a tenner!???

Looking forward to it..

[TheBoy]

The competition never caught up (or tried) to with the landrover and it did get some development like engines, suspension etc.

The mini didn't, the A series is a crap engine and still was right upto its final long overdue demise, the gearbox is horrible (and whines in all gears!) plus you simply cant stop selector shafts from leaking, the drive shafts break, there un-comfortable, the driving position is awful, the space inside is awful.....hence why the sales dropped off a cliff in the 80's....

A truely awful example of british engineering......great when released and then left to rot in the corner.....

Just like the current mini as well.

[amigov6]

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa42/dogsdinner44/minipaint007.jpg
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http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa42/dogsdinner44/minipaint016.jpg

 ::)All Finished ready to go back to it's owner
 You can see my Landie across the road & the Mig sticking it's nose out to the left of the last piccie.
     Think it was feeling left out so i spent 2 hrs polishing & glass cleaning today!! 8-)

[Kevin Wood]

Lovely! Looks like it's just come out of the factory. In fact they probably never did such a nice job

Kevin

[Ken T]

Very impressive paint job, can I ask what kind of paint did you use ?. Thats the first 'U' reg car I've seen, I thought they skipped 'U' to avoid confusion with 'V' .

[Varche]

Nice looking job.

Having built, owned, maintained and mostly rallied countless examples of every single type of Mini (first lot not the modern stuff) I am in agreement that they were truly dreadfull cars. Even the Cooper S's were "toilet engineering".

One rally I changed the radiator twice during the event at the roadside.

One Bank Holiday I had the engine and gearbox out and stripped down TWICE to replace a poxy gearbox bearing.

GRR, At least now I have my ultra reliable(?), easy to work(?) on Omega in my older age!

olive
  

[amigov6]

Very impressive paint job, can I ask what kind of paint did you use ?. Thats the first 'U' reg car I've seen, I thought they skipped 'U' to avoid confusion with 'V' .

:)ICI solvent based paint with 2 pack laquer. Car is on cat c, written off on Isle of man, shipped over as salvage, owner did panel rebuild then bought it here for spraying. It needs re re registering so i do'nt know if it'll get an age related 96 plate or a q reg.
     It's a nieghbour so i'll see it again. 8-)

[Baron Von Spongebob]

Its looking good..