Hello

[fluffiefaerie]

Just saying hi to all other mini owners on the site... currently restoring a wreck of an 84' Mayfair... www.miniresource.com/emmasmini.htm .. is proving to be very hard work but great fun... looking forward to showing her off hopefully at MITP 2004... won't be ready for MiniWorld 45 sadly...

[sagalout]

Hi FF, bet my mini's worse than your mini....
but mines a better colour.
Like your web site. Good luck withyour task

[Neil8p]

Hi, I'm new(ish) here as well. Registered a while ago but tend to lurk alot.

Nice site, looks like you've got a fair bit of work on with your car. What are your plans for it - standard or modified?

[Plotloss]

Welcome

Stick around, its an entertaining forum...

[fluffiefaerie]

Well at the moment money is fairly tight so we're just working on aesthetic stuff at the moment.. you guys will probs kill me for this but I'm having it resprayed in Rose Pink - the roof colour from the 1989 special edition Mini Rose. I'm currently working on the interior.. completely retrimming all the upholstery and door cards in white leatherette with pink piping and top-stitching.. I'm a total girly-girl so I just can't resist. The next plan is to work on the ICE I think - got me a 10" sub for the boot (looking at changing the parcel shelf to a mesh shelf!!!). But I'd really like to tune the engine up a bit.. though eventually I plan to stick a metro turbo lump in it.. just until we can afford something with a little more bite...

[Fatboy]

bung an MG metro lump in it - you can buy a whole MG metro for 50 quid, and that'll give you 4 pot brakes as well...

[fluffiefaerie]

That's what I meant actually.

[Fatboy]

Cunning

[Dodgy Dave]

Welcome Emma
This is the only place for advice help and parts that are clogging up peoples garages

[Cooperman]

Hi Emma,
Welcome to our little fraternity of Mini-freaks.
Although most of us are complete nuts, we are quite nice people really and between us we do know quite a lot about Minis. Where are you based?

[specitup]

while were on the subject, im new too.

i think i heard about this site in Autocar mag(?), and i have to say im pretty impressed. im alos pretty gutted that most members on here own TVR's/Bentley's and other highly desirable drives.

anyone fancy doing a carswap for a weekend? sometime in the middle of summer perhaps? ;o)

-andy

[rich 36]

Hi Emma, nice to see another mini-owner about here, asa your restoring one at the moment, have you any ideas on a theft un-likely radio to go in, i'm about to put one in Mrs rich's mini, only i do'nt know where to best site it? to avoid attention.

[Paul V]

Fatboy said:

bung an MG metro lump in it - you can buy a whole MG metro for 50 quid, and that'll give you 4 pot brakes as well...

Pound for pound that has to be the best conversion for a mini, but I would say that having done it about 5 times now

[phil hill]

Hi Emma and welcome. Hmmmm, looks like you've embarked on quite a job there....... but you're doing the right thing, cut and weld, cut and weld........

I hope you stick around and if we can help we will. I'm another one of the "lurkers" I'm afraid but everyone here is very helpfull. I'm out in Malaysia at the moment, not seen any mini's here yet, but have seen a few in Brisbain and in New Zealand over the last couple of weeks !!

[Fatboy]

Paul V said:

Fatboy said: bung an MG metro lump in it - you can buy a whole MG metro for 50 quid, and that'll give you 4 pot brakes as well... Pound for pound that has to be the best conversion for a mini, but I would say that having done it about 5 times now

Touch wood mine's still going strong, despite much drag strip and back road abuse

[Paul V]

Well mines still going, not too strong though lots of rattles and I think its about time I got the timing light out and re-adjusted it.

The thing has snapped the engine steady bar mount off the bulkhead as well so that’ll need welding soon

[Mr2Mike]

I hope you have an ultimate engine stabiliser fitted! The stock engine steady is barely adequate for an 850 A series let alone a 1275.

[Paul V]

Tend to fit them to all my Minis

[fluffiefaerie]

I'm in a sleepy town called Tavistock, Devon, UK. Live with my fiance.. he has a Mini Cooper Classic Sport 500 in mint condition with about 3k on the clock... It's asleep in the garage.. packed away for the winter... wheels off - on axle stands, leather treated, battery disconnected on trickle-charge... Can't wait till April-ish time to get him out again! Yay! Weeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[bebbesen]

I live near Tavistock!!! I went to St Michael's School... Sorry I don't have an original Mini - I've got one of the new ones - sorry..... Great roads down there for zooming!