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Hi FHM, thanks for the info, great to know others have used the mini cooper rad (and that there's more than 1275 looking at this?). I've removed the water pump (for a variety of reasons) and I'm planing on using an electric Davies Craig EWP80 Alloy Electric Water Pump & Digital Controller Combo...

The gearbox gear linkage is welded to a box section welded to a universal joint welded to tube welded to another UJ connected to a piece of solid 10mm going through a 10mm tube welded through the bottom rail of the roll hoop connected to a 3rd UJ welded to the tube connected to the Micra gear...

The seat rails are 80 x 40 box section cut to make 2 angles, these along with brackets on the lower frame rails are 2 more harness anchor points. I got my machine shop up the road to make 2 bespoke washers to fit the holes in the Kirkey seat. A countersunk cap head bolt spot welded into the...

The top of the rear suspension struts are fitted to a big ugly bit of angle iron, I think they started off as 150 x 150 x 10. The center lines of the tubes intersect at the top of the strut, hopefully this will be strong enough. With a lot of cutting and grinding they started to look a little...

Rear subframe joins the top of the suspension struts to each other and to the bolt on bracket that holds on the lower control arms, this has to be removed to take in/out the engine and gearbox. It's also the anchor for 2 of the seat belts so I used 3mm tube. The radiator is connected to this...

Adjustable GAZ shocks are fitted beside the top front wishbone connection, I won't buy the springs until the car is finished and I know the weight. The steering rack is clamped on to 30 x 30 angles welded to the front X brace along with the brake master cylinder (MX5) mounting plate. The...

While building the frame I leveled and bolted the rear frame to the floor and kept everything straight and square to the roll hoop. Once it was done, I set it up level at ride height and bolted it to the floor. I put back in the engine, control arms, rear suspension and wheels, adjusted the...

Hi SuperUno, this is a long shot I know but by any chance do you still have the 1.4 cams, I'd buy them off you and pay you more?

I bought the front end of an MX5 mk2 because it has the steering rack in front of the axel which helps to keep the car short and the hubs /uprights can take a 13inch rim. I just needed the front uprights but I copied all the dimensions for the steering, castor and and camber angles but with but...

Once I was happy with the design for the frame, I sent the drawing to all the laser tube cutting workshops I could find and only one came back to me with a quote, I got 41 tubes cut accurately, this was well worth it as it made assembling the frame much easier and the welds are good because the...

I won't need an alternator as the races are about 10 mins long and I'll plug in to a slave battery between races and use a jump starter for starting, this kept the engine tight to the roll bar and the lower control arms into a bushing in the 40mm box connecting the bottoms of the roll bar. Once...

The rear end geometry is the same as the front end of the micra except the suspension struts are vertical to remove any castor angle and I added 2 degrees of camber by bringing the tops of the struts a little closer to each other. The steering rack is removed but the rod ends are attached to the...

Hi, I'm new here, not sure if this should be here or in a blog? A few pics/vids and blurb about my project. Midget car racing is a low cost racing series in Ireland which is regulated by Motorsports Ireland. Small single seater home built cars with small capacity engines race on a grass surface...

Hi I'm looking for a 1.3 K11 inlet camshaft.