2nd Gen Most liked posts in thread: Another Rally Mini - Sgt Pepper

Thanks for the support. There will definitely be more pictures as I go.

 

Yep, after seeing what happened to your car, I was sold on proper suspension for mine

 

MA stickers must be worth at least 10 hp, haha.
I know I'm young, just means I have more time to make even more stupid mistakes. :lol:

 

Well I would like to give an update, but there isn't much to update. I ended up getting a new job which will be better in the long run, but through my schedule off for the short term. Had some issues with my house that put a dent in my time and money, so the car has been mostly sitting there.

Reiger did another great job at putting 10mm bushings in the rear struts, just like with Chris's. Unfortunately they also gave the wrong mounts for the front struts. The bolts were space about a centimeter too far from each other. So that's currently being dealt with.

The humorous issue I've had has been with tires. I purchased Dmack tires, but I do not have the ability to mount them myself. I went to a shop and they mounted them, but could not get the bead to seat. Neither could another shop I brought them to. After talking with the US distributor, I found out they seat at about 150psi!!! Since no shop would risk that I finally worked up the courage and sure enough, just a couple psi short of 150, they seated. First one scared me to death, because I had convinced myself the tire was going to blow. I will say that a tire cage and 8ft stand off are now going into my garage. After finishing all the tires I went to mount them and the realization finally hit me, the shop that mounted them put the tires on backwards. So I get to go through that mess again, haha.


I did take the time to take her to a meet a couple weeks ago. I would say it was the car grabbing the most attention out of the 70+ cars that were there.



Hope to have some real updates over the next few weeks as my schedule stabilizes.

 

Well it isn't racing, but I brought her out to the largest annual meet in Montana. Took home the "Best Race Prep'd" award. Not that there was a ton of competition there for that award. The funny thing is I still don't have a roof and it started raining as I was waiting to accept the award. I had to spend some time drying out the car that night.

 

The license plate is a odd story.
My last name is Huff and at one point I operated a paintball field. Paintball is still a huge thing for me, and I was trying to think of something for the new plates when I first got the Mini. The plates on my last rig were HUFNPUF, because that was a nickname I've had for a very long time (not because of drugs). I decided I didn't want a plate that could be taken as a drug reference, but somehow was completely oblivious to huffing paint when I filled out the form. I ended up just going from one accidental drug reference to another.