Morris Minor Owners Club

philthehill wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 6:30 pm Just to be pedantic - the items in the photos above are brake pipes not brake cables.

totally !! .... excitement go the better of me!

New pipes for my callipers, very happy with quality, going to order for the rest of the car now….

Engine mounts, and ford transit engine mounts…. With additional 5mm base plates

Final firewall finished, needs some dressing with tooling, to keep crisp edges, but finished, going to upgrade handle to wheel for my Jenny roller. Need to finish bracing and inner dash rack to hold elecs etc…

Cut and fitted all internal rear suspension frame, to fit now is the rear roll cage to tether into the frame, very happy with my basic tube notcher. Need to master for the roll cage.
Then need to send sample of roll cage welding off to get certified for racing.

Update… been at Goodwood seeing a good friend Mike Wood and his two works 124 Abarth Gp4. Enjoying a lot of me time and chatting about rebuilds excetra….
Roll cage tacked up, gear box rebuild….
Bright work back from platers, powder coating still waiting for….

Bright bits….

Gearbox assembly….

Have to share this, a works Abarth 16v engine rebuild by GC, a no1 GC 16v engine and a no 14 works engine….a rare thing, possibly even rarer now..

Great work you are doing and the Abarth is lovely

Popped in shop on Sunday due to someone buying a load of moggy bits, it’s clearance time in the container, again….
Whilst waiting I started to assembly the gearbox, note to self don’t do jobs that need 100% attention, as a direct result I’ve jammed and seized the gearbox up, undo and redo!

Pickup of more powder coating, that’s the whole front end, guessing I’m assembling that this week….

Also found a seat that fits, well the car, needs some mods to fit me, but going to make a copy for the navigator, it’s a aluminium race seat from the US, very light and narrow. Will see how that goes.

Helped a neighbour our on a clients Cadillac did the front foot well and foot board, only the fab work, not welding someone ,else’s car.

irmscher wrote: ↑Mon Jul 12, 2021 1:55 am Great work you are doing and the Abarth is lovely

Thanks the Abarth is Mick Woods, always great meeting up with him, his enthusiasm and encouragement are greatly received, was a great day at Goodwood FOS.

Little updates, had overhaul in shop, built new welding/work bench. Awaiting a new layout which will separate shop into clean zone dirty zone, well that’s the plan.
A little practice brazing, need to practice more, RSR fuel filler cap assembled.
Shimmed water pump pulley and now all aligned up, need bottom bracket for the alternator, top found. Another job ticked off.
Again awaiting powder coating, since lockdown the building industry has gone bonkers, my little jobs are now back of the que, heyho

RSR filler cap. The start all the pipe work will be modded up by me, but built by some else probably by RAD fabrications.

A lot of great wok going on here

A small update, loads of goodies arriving from Rally sport, front hubs, disc, bearings etc assembled…need my powder coating to assemble front end. Going to chase tomorrow.

Hubs’s bearing and discs….all gp4 specification

Did a quick google and made no sense of it - So what is the GP4 spec?

Nourish wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 8:28 pm Did a quick google and made no sense of it - So what is the GP4 spec?

Don’t know what internet your using but essentially, bigger, better stronger than production parts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_4_(racing)

Does that mean then that every part described as a group 4 part is at least
a replica of that part that was homologated?