Frankenstein

[DomMINIque]

So since the 66 is now gone. I got to spend some time on my own car.

After spending the morning washing my bicycle. I took the mini out to the shop.
Quite a bad grinding noise which has gotten significantly worse....

The result:

20180414_162932 by Dominique Bernardino, on Flickr

20180414_151219 by Dominique Bernardino, on Flickr

So some damage has been done....

Will need to replace the UJ and bend the manifold somewhat to clear it.

When I pulled the manifold off obviously the carb had to come off as well...
Turns out the the hs4 was leaking fuel (oh and there was a manifold leak as well....)

So instead of doing a half assessed job I'm going to sort it out properly now to get it going strong again.

Was playing with some ideas re the carb situation:

20180414_161925 by Dominique Bernardino, on Flickr

The brick was just there for clearance purposes as it's about the same height as the air filter.

20180414_160830 by Dominique Bernardino, on Flickr

Oh and to top it all off seems I have a break fluid leak from somewhere....

But we'll just deal with one thing at a time....

[Sean1380]

Put that mother trucker of a down draft on it Dom

[DomMINIque]

Everyone keeps telling me that Sean.... LOL.

Seems there is no alternative.

[Jared Mk3]

Like Sean says, fit the down draft!

Have you got a replacement rubber joint for the driveshaft?

[Sean1380]

is it a 36IDF ?

[DomMINIque]

@Jared I don't unfortunately. But Rui said he had one at home spare.
I just want to bend and refit the exhaust so if I do destroy a rubber joint more it won't be a good condition one...

@Sean Dellorto DRLA 36 actually the turbo version but we not going to get ahead of ourselves now.

[Sean1380]

Ahhhhhhh - Turbo !!!! - Do it

[jimmyjamjar]

Did you raid the Delorto carb from a VW or Porche? Is the brake master cylinder standard,? never seen one like that before.

[DomMINIque]

LOL Sean don't think this motor would cope with the boost. Think it will literally self destruct....

@Jimmy. I didn't directly no. Bought it as a "kit" turbo, intercooler, carb and a few other bits. But based on what I've seen it must have been because I've got a complete right side and half a left side (just the body).
The jetting that is also currently in it also seems more suited for a beetle based on the twin dellorto set up.

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Bought a set of twins a while back so thought I'd take them apart and clean them to determine whether they could just be used in the interim while I wait for Dellorto spares.

They appear to be in reasonable condition. However they have EB needles in and a "brown" spring which isn't actually a colour.
Also semi stuck with air filter options for this set up as well.
So it seems I'm somewhat back to square one with half a clean set of twins...

[Vinay-RS]

Does it not have a standard air filter box? I'd imagine Dez or one of the other Mini guys up there have a few standard twin air filter boxes in storage. The air filters are relatively easy to get for those boxes.