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With a Mini like mine you need to laugh and love it.

 

You see the Mini missed me...no error codes today. I'm still loving the short ration midlands box and the gear whine!

 

I'm still alive! just LOL The Mini is running fine so far ssssshhhh I changed the oil and V belt last night in between the monsoon rain. Next job is to FIA certify the cage. I had a pre-check last month and all looked good apart from some gussets need to be added to the X part of the cage in the door ways. Also the seat belt angle is incorrect. I hope to have that done next month. All these changes are part of an ongoing safety improvement.

Also I'm saving for the clutch and synchro rings to stop the crunch crunch at high RPM shifts.

As for the rallies? none in sight.

 

I have not fitted the Holeys because I need one more which I need to look for on Ebay. Yes no rallies down here so far but driving here is like a rally everyday! LOL

 

haha you know how it is here Don..

I posted in racing Mini's my intentions for the rally Mini. The Mini and I are not getting any younger so while both of us are healthy I thought I'd try to do a years rallying in one event! The event being Rally Mexico 2017. We have had a few folks asking us to go do the event but the estimated cost is way off my budget. Therefore I got some help to start a go fundme account to start the ball(Mini) rolling. Basically I'm trying to raise the cost of the shipping, entry fee and all the little stuff that will pop up. Meanwhile I'm going to be busy taking the Mini apart, checking everything and putting it back together.

I pretty sure the clutch plate is warped so I'm going to swap that and change out the straight cut gear set because at a top speed of 90mph at 6500rpm I think this will be too short for the Mexico stages. I did think to put bigger tyres but that does not improve the top speed enough to make a difference.

Anyway as the months roll by I'll let you know how the progress is coming along.

 

Thanks Chaps! I'm back in the US looking at clutches. I had the plate custom made because finding a heavy duty clutch for a Midlands was not easy back in 2012. Searching around I found a stage 3 paddle clutch kit for Midlands from SPEC.

Another issue is the final drive. I have a 4.9 and just found last weekend that Gripper make custom final drives which is a bummer because they never told me that. Now I'll have get another made, most likely a 3.6 or taller.

 

Thanks Dave, I'm going to be busy keeping you chaps happy over the next few months!

 

Well the campaign got off to a good start thanks to MA members. I've sent the link to a lot of companies too but nothing so far.....maybe I should offer some special services as an incentive? LOL