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I never did post any kind of build to my old Fella KAZ here so i might aswell start now,

He's a 1968 mkII mini, irish, not an import,
When i bought him from a friend (Miniireland) he was in not too bad condition, the engine, i was told was seized so that got my mind thinking of bigger things immediately, namely a 1380cc motor!
i found out afterwards when i pulled the head off that it was just a blown head gasket! if only i'd done that first!
the bodywork was in good condition apart from a flakey paint job that had been done previously,
so once i got the car i started getting in the long list of parts and believe me, it was very long indeed!
basically i had every part in the engine replaced with new uprated parts, a straight cut gearbox, omega pistons, new uprated crankshaft, webber 45 dcoe, all the expensive bits,
then he got a set of KAD 4pots, new subframe, suspension, braided brake lines, etc,

then eventually after a year and a half of just sitting outside my house i started work on him,
no fancy garages or anything like that, just out on the side of the road with help from mates for the heavy parts!
this was his first incarnation,







he came with a dashboard from a Dolomite sprint so i decided to leave that in as it looked quite good,

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i saw this mini car on mr

god its come on a bit since then!

i like the mk 1 doors

sweet enough though

jason

one or two pictures of the initial build,

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I tryed too do take the engine out on my road too!! Within 20 mins the gards were down (I hate my neighbours!!!)

Beautiful car though. I like those doors!!!

Some day hopefully I shall have a car that looks that good!!!

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Getting old is a must but growing up is optional!

StanO'Toole

i don know must be the colour of the doors or something!

then disaster!
the night before i was due to go to carrick on suir the engine died on me,
pulled it apart that night to find that the block had cracked between 2 & 3 cylinder, one scrap block!
you cant see it that well but their is a small grey line at the thinnest part of the cylinder wall that only comes down about 8mm, quite hard to see but i know exactly where it is!


so out came the engine again!
got a new block from england and started again,


it was really cold out!
Thanks to my Dad for the Bovril

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by this stage he's got huge spotlights on the front as you can see,
but thats not the end,
he then had a stage 5 cylinder head fitted,
which............ turned out to be scrap!

so after a lot of head scratching and a year or so of my mini sitting in the basement in work not moving i took him to Paul Hickey engineering,
Paul stripped him apart to find one or two other interesting things which have all been replaced thank god!

finally, he is having a Megajolt ignition system fitted just to make me feel better and to be more precisely tunable,



so at the moment KAZ is 1380cc with a straight cut gearbox, new 4pin diff, new 286 full scatter cam, stage 2/3 cylinder head with 31 x 37 valves, running a webber 45, and a Megajolt ignition system, and thats just the short list

He's back!....................and he wants tarmac!

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Heres the vote!!!!!

Whos car looks better in the dark!!!


I must say as a starting product it was a beautiful car but you really made it into a finished product Macker!!!

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Getting old is a must but growing up is optional!

StanO'Toole

you do mean who's camera phone takes a better picture in the dark dont you

and as for being finished.................................




that'll never happen!

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Macker
That mini of yours looks superb,how a classic mini should look. very nice.

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i agree. great to see hes back terrorising the back roads of the south east once again (well nearly)

Well done, it looks great

Fair play for changing an engine at the side of the street,I see it was close to a gulley,handy for any spills. Looking forward to seeing this on MTM.

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Real Clubmans have a square nose.Seriously.

Just got KAZ back from Mr Merlin tonight, breathing properly now and doesnt seem to be snotting oil all over the place anymore

have only made one or two small changes to him myself for the MTM, wheels, seats, not much else really,
not even too sure if i'm gonna keep the new wheels i bought on him,
i'll leave all that till after the MTM

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Well done Macker.

Not long now.

Billy

Well done.
As said before your car looks the part.
Will be nice to see it in the metal tomorrow.

one or two pics of my mini KAZ from this years Mizen to Malin run!

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i love the evil eyes!!!!! i want them

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FROM THIS TO THIS

lookin well

Wow!

over a year since i last posted any updates for KAZ!



well, i just got KAZ back from Merlin tonight after having one or two little things done to him, Paul had him down in Westward engineering getting him rolling roaded after all the stuff that's been done to him previously,
quite pleased with the results,

108BHP and 122Nm (90ftlbs) of torque!

Martin in Westward said that the bulkhead box that i have is quite small and is causing slight problems with the air intake being slightly restricted and a little too hot, i may try out an induction kit?

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This lads is a super car Huge credit to Macker for sticking with me on this one, as a result KAZ is running as sweet as a nut.

A very big thanks to Martin Tracy from Westward Engineering We spent a long time in the dyno cell geting this running right and it shows in the way it drives pulling full throttle well under 2500rpm and pulls like a train to 7000rpm.

Cool:-)

Just a lick of paint now Macker and she,s the dogs danglers A !!

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ALL YOU NEED IS POWER AND LOADS OF IT!!!

Car is looking well. Do you mind me asking where you got the headlamp covers?