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No matter how much you try to tell somebody what to do they can only learn by doing it themselves;)

I have replaced all of these and the list can go on... Door frames are often a problem as is the front pannel, also behind the front wheel at the side of the footwell. Anything on the pillars or roof is quite rare.

That looks ruined, theres rust up to the top of the c pillars which normally means the underside is trashed, and unless you want to be driving down the road sideways it isnt as simple as cutting out old pannels and spot welding new ones in.... Sell the cooper as a restoration project for good...

If its a track day car it doesnt matter what you get, when the right car turns up for the right money just buy it, as long as you keep to fairly common cars theres plenty of mods available. Personally i would be looking at something jap maybe honda simply because jap engines seem to enjoy being...

I found a mini moto just like that in a lake lol! 3 hours later and a 5er petrol then me and my mate were ripping around on it! If you like choppers, ill have to put up some pics of one i have recently made! I even built my own chrome leading link forks for it! For my next one im purchasing a...

If it is a real cooper it will have front 7.5 inch disks on the front. Its a shame that it has been flipfronted, i hope you weld on a propper front end? If i were in your shoes, and it IS a real cooper, i would take years on the restoration making it an absolute mint example of a classic cooper...

A diesel can do lets say on average 50% more mpg than the petrol and most now(not all) are very decent to drive. To me that shows a huge increase in technology and a far better way of using a finite rescource-fuel. Yes it may be a false economy now, but i do believe it is the way forward. We all...

Lol its a chromed slr, how is that not cool? sometimes i think you guys think more about practicality and cleaning problems than just cool factor! Things dont have to be nice to be cool!

Loving it man!! Will you lift the back like you have with the front, or you leaving it as it is?

You just havnt been caught before!! Seems to me like you are a very silly boy, who now feels even more stupid becuase you had one pint to many, stick to the orange juice my friend.....

Cheers taking the pics mate, i think they have come out really nice. just to let you guys know it is a mini city e 998 that used to produce around 30~ bhp, hopefully its up around around the 60 mark now from what vizard implies. The block is a 998 a+ bored 40 thou to ~1040, lightened and...

I like it, i bet it flies with all of that torque.....:D

There is a video of a volvo being fed stones and grass through the oil filler cap on the engine, they continued to drive it for rather a long time. This to me shows that even if a volvo doesnt have fsh, a little bit of old oil isnt actually going to do much damage at all really:p Plus they look...

Shees no slow coach, the engine is fettled a fair bit and she goes really well considering its only a 1l mini.

I checked this out, red engines have more bhp but i wanned to go for the torques.......:p

The tired engine and parts..... I had to split the engine and box to get the offending parts out...... Mmmm all nice and shiney I had to get the engine out to remove some parts of a fuel pump that had discintegrated into my engine so I thought I should tidy it all up a bit while its...

Yes it was a sprintex charger, however it was running some different internals aswell plus LPG believe it or not. It was built by a company called PTP as a demo car to show what they could do.

Personally, i like the ZS, i think they look nice and the 2.5 v6's dont hang around. I went in a supercharged one, it was awesomely fast but the supercharger had to go because it was killing the engine. They handle fairly well, go fairly well (the v6), the interior i think is quite nice with...

Diesel?

I dont understand this, i have a classic mini and without doubt if i had the cash i would be running a pair of TB's on it with mappable fuel and ignition so i can do away with my carb. Although carbs are simpler you just cant adjust them to the same level of accuracy as an injection system...