Pedro, my 1970 morris minor (MODIFIED)

[phurn]

can i join the race? im going for a 2.9 ford v6... gonna take me a long time! but it should be worth it. gonna look alot more subtle than your motors though, from what i can tell and have planned anyway.

[hotrodder13]

the more the merrier mines guna take a while anyway due to a few changes lately

[phurn]

Yeah I've setmyself a time scale of 2 or 3 years though knowing me it'l take 3 times that. The efi will be a pain in the proverbial to wire up, but the 195bhp will be worth it I hope.

[hotrodder13]

mine should hopefully have 120 bhp to start with haha, not a lot but more then a 1275 cc

[rossrox]

as i may not be going 4-age anymore im thinking 200bhp zetec...

[rossrox]

still waiting for the suspension
jono said it should be here soon

[Alex'n'Ane]

Lets hope so, cant wait to see it all coming together. Any progress on the engine front yet? Made a decision?

[rossrox]

not yet, no. my heads all over the place engine wise, i have too many choices atm, and im finding it tough to narrow it down

[ratrodmog]

Same here . I'm torn between a Vauxhall 'Red Top', Nissan CA twin cam (probably the 1.8 ), Toyota twin cam and some other as well .

[rossrox]

ive been hugely considering ford sierra cosworth engine it would be hard to do but deffinatly possible, and ive just had an email from jono and my suspension was sent today and ill get it tommorow WOOOHOOO!!!!

[ratrodmog]

Pics asap the please

[rossrox]

okie dokie, suspension arrived yesterday so today i striped the front end down which wasnt too far away from being seized up. i will finish dismantling tommorow and restore what i need and then purchase a welder, =/ i need to weld rear suspension and obviously front suspension, but as my welds havnt got great penetration i may have to hire someone more expense!!! i will upload pics as soon as i find my camera

[rossrox]

thought id use the phone camera for a change, but quality is horrid!!!

so this is current state of my garage would help if my whole family didnt use the garage as a tip but thats what you get for not really working on it in a few months[frame][/frame]

this is the front coil overs and the rear dampers[frame][/frame]

quality of this picture is really bad, but i dismantled the front nearside suspension, clean up the king pin, degreased and decraped, and i bolted on to the coilover kit just as a mock up really[frame][/frame]

i should be able to upload more pics as soon as my friend comes round with his good camera

[Alex'n'Ane]

Looking very nice, rather jealous.

[ratrodmog]

Freekin' sweet

[rossrox]

its not alot to be jelous about... yet ;) my current aim is to get suspension on brakes on and wheels on before i leave for uni in august, i think its do-able aslong as i pull my finger out.

[rossrox]

right, a smallish update, today i got bored and desided to actually make some progress.
so i finished my axle rebuild.[frame][/frame][frame][/frame][frame][/frame][frame][/frame]

i left the diff casing and diff as ill be changing it once i deside what sized wheels im going to use, i did have some alloys but got rid of them after deciding i didnt like them.

i have the leaf springs so soon i will marry the axle to the springs and put it on pedro, then get some ford wheels from a scrappy.

i lost my job too so money is going to be crap now so there shouldnt be a HUGE amount of progress, but some

[Alex'n'Ane]

Looking good, shame about the job Best of luck finding another one. Also let me know about the diff when you do as i may be interested, as i currently have a 4.11 i think.

[rossrox]

yeah finding one is a pain at the moment, i only need it for a few months then im off to uni, which will mean even less progress on my car. plus it will be a while til i get rid of that diff i think as im not going to need a new one for a while.

[rossrox]

my mum has bought me a welder for my 18th which is on the 19th, so after the 19th there should in theory be alot of progress