Congratulations on the book with no pics.. John really is a character.. together you guys are TV gold.. can’t wait to see it finished, great stuff guys 👍🏻
With that color there isn’t much to make it look better. The only thing that would help that color would be maybe adding a metallic or pearl? @@Pits750
I completely stripped one of these engines down when i was 14 and my dad wasn't best pleased. However we did put it all back together with new bearings and such and it ran like a dream. These engines are so easy to work on.
I am so glad you didn't quit. Last time it seemed you got bored of car youtubing. One or two chanels I liked to watch quietly left without telling. Or simply the time between their episodes lasts so long.
Yes we all agree. I think Rich should just play reruns of “best of” videos from the channels past for the weeks he’s not gonna post a new video. What do you think?
Rich’s voice is very soothing. His voice makes me regular again 💩 in the bathroom after every one of his videos. He has a voice of and ExLax- angel. 🤣😂🤣
RICH...Glad you kept the hydrolastic suspension, its superb. As its a Cooper it should have the uprated fluid units and you can see on the back that you have the uprated competition rubber bump stops (the big round rubber bumpers - on normal cars they were a little triangular thing) You need some of those larger rubber bump stops on the front to help stop dive, tho if you are using shocks as well it should be ok. The Discs on the front of your car (are from the 90's) and will only allow you to fit 12'' wheels....if you are throwing money at it get the Cooper 'S' 7'' discs..(servo tucked in passenger footwell so you don't have to take the brakes apart to mess with the engine) .and run 10'' wheels...Then and only then will you know why its wrong to run 12's... A well sorted car on 10'' wheels with a low diff is f*cking weapon and will out handle anything else you have ever driven...the tiny wheels will out accelerate many things and the low diff stops the engine drone at 60-70 mph and will carry your little box to 130mph ....get a well tucked cage too.. ;D
@@williamwilliams8145 Ho ho. There will always be a little bit of fuel for these retro special vehicles - like running traction engines at summer fetes. You'll have to order from some specialist website. Although I guess eventually running such a thing in public will need a pollution permit application :-)
I had a Mini (1988) for 8 years and had the motor and gearbox completely rebuilt and upgraded to 1330 from a 998 with x pin diff and loads of top parts. Professionally built by Andy Davies of MLM Motorsport and AC Dodd with his trick cam and parts inside. That car was fast and reliable. I paid about 4k for the motor and gearbox build complete. Seems prices are much higher now.
My grandpa has always been a car guy and recently he sold his z4 for a mini Cooper. It was a real head scratcher for me at first but they’re really starting to grow on me. I love the houndstooth seats, those are going to look amazing with the brown leather/suede and with all the drivetrain and suspension upgrades that car is going to feel like a rocket sled on rails. I’m very excited to see more of this project (and the others). Great job Rich! Keep up the good work!
I really hate these cars, my dad bought like 3 from auctions to find the cleaner ones, happens that they are all poorly built you can't find a "good one"
Loving this build. Thanks for taking your time with the videos and putting them out when ya want. I can tell you enjoy making the videos a lot more that way. Thanks for all the laughs and useful information you bring to all your videos. Been having a rough last couple last months searching for houses and videos like this really help!! Thanks Rich for all you and your team do to bring us these videos.
Hello mate hear in the uk we had a car called a mg metro turbo which has a 1275 a series turbo engine as standard (I have 2) you could have sourced an original engine turbo and loom and the parts to rebuild one for a fraction of the price I always love all your videos keep spending all you're money to keep us entertained lol
Definitely paid too much, unless it has some REALLY expensive parts inside. I would have contacted someone like MED or KAD, I bet for 18k he could have had a race engine or high output turbo motor built using top quality parts including shipping. I suppose it's a bit of a specialist thing over the pond, probably why it was so expensive.
Left hand threads are not only on early British but also American, take a look at anything from the 50's out of GM and left hand threaded wheel nuts can be found on one side of the car and right hand thread on the other
I believe it was a thing in the US earlier than that. Left hand thread wheel studs were used on one side on WW2 Ford & Wilys Jeeps as well as I recollect?
Awesome all the new suspension parts there, well done throwing lots of new stuff into this, rather than bodging it. Edit: $18K for the engine!!! And that is US$ ouch. My brother did a Morris mini deluxe up in the late 80s in Australia (non Cooper/s of course, he may have sunk a few Coopers down while restoring it mind you) and parts were dirt cheap back then!
Oh god not the turbo kit from Jet motors and a aluminum radiator. Rich I know these may seem like upgrades but I highly recommend you speak with the folks at Wild Child Classic Cars in Arizona. I’ve made the these same mistakes with my A series mini and all my car did was overheat and didn’t really make anymore power. They educated me on the correct way to build my car, supercharging is the way to go. They are also experts in that hydrolastic system and have the best prices on mini parts state side.
Damn, your putting the rebuild in richrebuilds on this one. This is some serious work from what I can tell. Would be curious to see more of the engine build since this is such an old car. Keep up the good work
Reminds me I need to order parts and sort out my passenger front brake caliper on my '74 Mk3. Not really diggin' the grey, but you do you Uncle Rich, however that chocolate interior is very schmoove. Props to John.
Ha ha - I like it when Rich says about '$10,000 then?' knowing full-well that a full set of bearing shells for main bearings and big-end bearing for a mini is about £100 ($120?). This is why we keep coming back :-)
That Mini is going to be a great car, just make the paint two toned, like white pearl on top and metallic wine red bottom (or British flag theme). With all the horses in the stable, it should turn some heads. Thumbs up for the team! 👍 You're making a good job.
this was all done in the 80's mg metro turbo engine bolted in with a weld in box in the firewall where the turbo sits and dump the whole rear suspention for a beam axle with coil overs
Doing a great job on the real Mini big respect, all the Mini owners I have known over the years have made each their own. Some have put in engines out of an old Austin Maxi 1750cc others have used engines out of other Mini's like replacing an 850cc with a 1275cc but the interior's we won't go there.
@@cambridgemart2075 That is true I love the old Mini and worked on quite a few but now they are far out of my price range or they need so much welding it would be cheaper to buy a new body.
@@mclarenjohnf1 A very old friend has her husband's old 1959 mini in a garage where it has been for 35 years now,; we have tried to persuade her to put it up for auction as it's probably worth a small fortune, but she won't part with it.
@@cambridgemart2075 I know people like that my uncle has 2 motorbikes in his old garage that I remember sitting on and stuff when I was 7 so that would be about 1972 and he would rather give you his left arm than sell those yet he purchased a Chinese version of a Honda 250 super dream not long ago.
I'm surprized you didn't just drop the subframes, far easier to sort the engine out that way, and check for rust where the subframes bolt on, here in the uk the rot very quickly due to the salt they put on the roads. It's nice to see a mini being restored, I had a normal mini and a mini pick up, years ago lol
The Hydroelastic suspension is junk for a performance Mini, you need hi-lo cones and rubber to get the best handling. Enjoying the build...you are doing it in a very British way. Blacked out engine bay etc...I learnt to mechanic from my Dad on Mini's and that reversed thread was one thing i do remember! Maybe a Chocolate roof would give it the real Mini Cooper vibe?
I'm impressed. Rich is actually doing a solid restoration on a car for a change, instead of putting a diesel engine in it, or turning it into a rat rod or something. But I do get why he did a dodgy EV conversion on his new(er) Mini, those things are way less collectible than the original Mini Coopers. I still remember as a kid in NZ over 40 years ago when those Minis were still brand new. It's amazing that people are still valuing them. Is that engine from a newer car, like a Metro or something? It certainly doesn't look like the old A-series that the original cars had.
Your gonna need a engine steady bolted from the thermostat mount on the head, to the bulk head. I made this mistake of relying on the standard bone one, Once the power does the bushes and the engine rocks youll snap the carb off the inlet manifold. Save time and money, do it now.
14:42 SMART. I see so many people half-ass their engine bay, and so many times when they have the opportunity to do it too. If you're half way in, do it. Don't think just do it. Best paint should go on the engine bay and underside. Top side doesn't need the best, just wrap it with the best. Paint jobs are so last year.
The nuts are opposite threads for the same reason a British bottom bracket is on a bicycle. If the threads are the same way both sides then the rotation of the wheel will cause the near side nut to work loose. By having them opposite threads then the rotation of the wheel makes the nut actually get tighter
Oh nice 👍🏾, can’t wait to hear those turbo noises, will it also make pops and crackle sounds. Hopefully it shoots flames 🔥 out the tail pipe. You should get the front and rear lights to do a sequence on start up.
Congratulations on your book. To me your best videos were your original Tesla rebuild. I found your channel during the middle of it and they was fascinating to watch. Against all odds, with trial and error and no support from Elon and Tesla, you made that car run again. It was epic. Your perseverance was truly impressive. I don't know if you will ever top that rebuild. The ICE-T build and some of your other videos are interesting and entertaining, but not as compelling.
You definitely need a larger carburettor. I used to have a Dellorto 45 on mine, I had to cut in a battery box from the boot into the dash to make space for it though
The reverse thread was a very common strategy in old cars since one wheel will turn clockwise and get tighter as it rolls, but the other one will unscrew itself, but if you do a reverse thread, that movement will tighten the nut.
9:25 I think those washers are how the caster alignment is adjusted (basically they are shims) and yes the order is specific and they are different thicknesses. Jaguar did the same #$%^ on my 2002 XKR and its a massive pain in the arse. British cars YEAH BABY.
It’s definitely cool. I’m a little surprised that with the new turbo go kart engine you didn’t upgrade the brakes at all but I also don’t know much about the originals
If u think about it, rotation of the driver side with the vehicle going forward will loosen a nut while passenger side tightens. Guess thts what they were thinking with the left hand thread.
If the setup is a blow through carburettor system, the dashpot needs a clamp on the cap; MG Metro turbos had the clamp fitted when they discovered the top cap could be ejected under boost.
ye... the gap between those cylindars is basically brown paper bag level, you turbo that for any length of time and your 4 piston will have more in common with a 2 stroke, you should hot up something like a toyota R series from 70s, the blocks on those are stupidly thicc and thick too
If that's the stock rad fan on there, its backwards. Still blows air the right way like that, but not as much and can cause overheating issues. Very common problem
When they make rods, they are forged, a single piece. The they machine that single piece out for the crank bore, then the top of the crank for the piston pin and then drilling and tapping for the caps. Once they have completed all of that, The crank is cracked in half. That cracked surface gives a perfect profile when putting it back together but it only goes on one way. Then inside each side of that crack they either machine or compress the metal for the bearing relief locks.That's why you have to keep the crank orientation to its cap because one cap might go on another crankshaft but it won't line up on that forge crack. Likewise if you flip it around and it's on the same crankshaft the forge crack won't mate up. They only go together one way and that's why.
That is the case with a lot of modern rods but it wasn't the case back when the Mini was manufactured. According to Google Ford was the first to utilize fractured rods starting in 1990.
That grey color looks a lot like Rust-oleum Ash Grey spray paint. Was going to buy some packs of that recently off of Amazon but that specific color is for some reason more expensive than any other color.
Hey Rich you might want to spin that radiator fan around, its on backwards, the fan profile doesnt work so well that way around to push the air through the radiator, But Nice Mini! Ive had a fair few now xD
Congratulations on the book with no pics.. John really is a character.. together you guys are TV gold.. can’t wait to see it finished, great stuff guys 👍🏻
John is a top tier character. Very underrated
John is a Great guy to meet. Very well rounded in knowledge of all aspects of cars n trucks. Not just interiors.
And yet he's living and working out of a storage unit these days. Maybe Rich should increase his wages.
Why have a shop when you can just use friends shops like Rich’s? John is doing very well working at EG Garage. @@Satanist-zm2rq
he did a great job in shrek 2 as well as the ugly stepsister
Agreed.
Should be done in time for SEMA! Big props to John. Dude really knows his craft.
John is great at what he does and an amazing nice guy to meet. 👍
SEMA which year?
Year of the Uncle Rich. LoL @@Satanist-zm2rq
Sema? Have you seen the paint? It's complete arse.
With that color there isn’t much to make it look better. The only thing that would help that color would be maybe adding a metallic or pearl? @@Pits750
I completely stripped one of these engines down when i was 14 and my dad wasn't best pleased. However we did put it all back together with new bearings and such and it ran like a dream. These engines are so easy to work on.
I am so glad you didn't quit. Last time it seemed you got bored of car youtubing. One or two chanels I liked to watch quietly left without telling. Or simply the time between their episodes lasts so long.
Yes we all agree. I think Rich should just play reruns of “best of” videos from the channels past for the weeks he’s not gonna post a new video. What do you think?
I'm glad he doesn't do videos all the time. you don't want to be content driven. then you're not having fun anymore👍🏼😎🇨🇦
Glad you wrote a book and especially glad that you are going to be releasing the audio with your own voice. Me and my wife love your voice.
Rich’s voice is very soothing. His voice makes me regular again 💩 in the bathroom after every one of his videos. He has a voice of and ExLax- angel. 🤣😂🤣
The interior is going to be 🔥!!! Can’t wait to see it finished.
So a Bisquit 🐕 brown interior????
Oh yea I cannot wait to see this interior. So happy brown's. It's going to be just an OG cool
RICH...Glad you kept the hydrolastic suspension, its superb. As its a Cooper it should have the uprated fluid units and you can see on the back that you have the uprated competition rubber bump stops (the big round rubber bumpers - on normal cars they were a little triangular thing) You need some of those larger rubber bump stops on the front to help stop dive, tho if you are using shocks as well it should be ok.
The Discs on the front of your car (are from the 90's) and will only allow you to fit 12'' wheels....if you are throwing money at it get the Cooper 'S' 7'' discs..(servo tucked in passenger footwell so you don't have to take the brakes apart to mess with the engine) .and run 10'' wheels...Then and only then will you know why its wrong to run 12's...
A well sorted car on 10'' wheels with a low diff is f*cking weapon and will out handle anything else you have ever driven...the tiny wheels will out accelerate many things and the low diff stops the engine drone at 60-70 mph and will carry your little box to 130mph ....get a well tucked cage too.. ;D
"I think we may have gone overboard a little bit." Literally every one of Rich's awesome builds. 18:10
It would be cool to see more of the build details, like building the engine. Looking good!
Maybe Rich could make a second channel on more details of builds????
Very nice project, i enjoy watching this a lot. Pleas show EVERYTHING.
I like John's new shop the most
I see it as cheaper lower over head for him to give all his customers lower better prices 💵 than others.
ASMR of John making that interior? Sewing machine ticking away would be noice to watch.
They just told you the man lost his shop man he’s probably doing it from his house
The best interior jobs I had done were guys working out of their house not a shop. @@shabbabaptiste36
Oh that Project Binky rip at 0:50. One day... one day it will be completed.
Binky is the best project on YT ❤
Hopefully it will be finished before fossil fuels run out.
@@williamwilliams8145 Ho ho. There will always be a little bit of fuel for these retro special vehicles - like running traction engines at summer fetes. You'll have to order from some specialist website. Although I guess eventually running such a thing in public will need a pollution permit application :-)
I had a Mini (1988) for 8 years and had the motor and gearbox completely rebuilt and upgraded to 1330 from a 998 with x pin diff and loads of top parts. Professionally built by Andy Davies of MLM Motorsport and AC Dodd with his trick cam and parts inside. That car was fast and reliable. I paid about 4k for the motor and gearbox build complete. Seems prices are much higher now.
That's about $15k worth of parts and labor right now.
Watching two grown men get excited about fabric is hilarious. That interior is going to be awesome! Thanks for sharing with us Rich.
This is a great build and I love how much work and change is reflected in this one video. SO much better than 10 episodes with small accomplishments.
Love the fact you kept the A series
Awesome video, Rich! Good to see Chad, Josh does an excellent job with the interior. Can't wait for the next video.
My grandpa has always been a car guy and recently he sold his z4 for a mini Cooper. It was a real head scratcher for me at first but they’re really starting to grow on me. I love the houndstooth seats, those are going to look amazing with the brown leather/suede and with all the drivetrain and suspension upgrades that car is going to feel like a rocket sled on rails. I’m very excited to see more of this project (and the others). Great job Rich! Keep up the good work!
I really enjoy your videos now, focused and no BS! 👍
Amazing the painter was able to recreate the nice 60's Orange peel effect witht the paint job! Looks realllll good 😂🙈
I really hate these cars, my dad bought like 3 from auctions to find the cleaner ones, happens that they are all poorly built you can't find a "good one"
Gonna love seeing another classic mini on the road soon in NH
Loving this build. Thanks for taking your time with the videos and putting them out when ya want. I can tell you enjoy making the videos a lot more that way. Thanks for all the laughs and useful information you bring to all your videos. Been having a rough last couple last months searching for houses and videos like this really help!! Thanks Rich for all you and your team do to bring us these videos.
Hey Rich, happy book history month. Congrats to you and you and your writer.
Hello mate hear in the uk we had a car called a mg metro turbo which has a 1275 a series turbo engine as standard (I have 2) you could have sourced an original engine turbo and loom and the parts to rebuild one for a fraction of the price
I always love all your videos keep spending all you're money to keep us entertained lol
Definitely paid too much, unless it has some REALLY expensive parts inside. I would have contacted someone like MED or KAD, I bet for 18k he could have had a race engine or high output turbo motor built using top quality parts including shipping.
I suppose it's a bit of a specialist thing over the pond, probably why it was so expensive.
Can order a full engine 1380cc kit for about £5000. If you go Metro Turbo I believe the bulkhead needs modification
Nice I can’t wait to hear and see it completed. Makes me think of an old 007 movie.
Yes it’s secret agent “Rich, Uncle Rich”. LoL
Left hand threads are not only on early British but also American, take a look at anything from the 50's out of GM and left hand threaded wheel nuts can be found on one side of the car and right hand thread on the other
Mopar also did it. Just found out on a 1965 Dodge dart
Ford F250/350 10.25"/10.5" rear hub bearing locknuts are still left and right hand threaded.
I believe it was a thing in the US earlier than that. Left hand thread wheel studs were used on one side on WW2 Ford & Wilys Jeeps as well as I recollect?
Your voice for the audio is perfect. We love it for the podcasts so it will work there, too.
Awesome all the new suspension parts there, well done throwing lots of new stuff into this, rather than bodging it.
Edit: $18K for the engine!!! And that is US$ ouch. My brother did a Morris mini deluxe up in the late 80s in Australia (non Cooper/s of course, he may have sunk a few Coopers down while restoring it mind you) and parts were dirt cheap back then!
I feel as if he could have swapped a turbo K or d series honda in there and made twice the power for that money
In the uk now we do a lot of Honda K20 swaps,300-400bhp in these minis are scary but fun 😎
Dual motor electric swap is going to be a revolution. We are *this* close to having the battery tech to make it wicked.
a lot of the swaps are not honda k series but bmw k series
Oh god not the turbo kit from Jet motors and a aluminum radiator. Rich I know these may seem like upgrades but I highly recommend you speak with the folks at Wild Child Classic Cars in Arizona. I’ve made the these same mistakes with my A series mini and all my car did was overheat and didn’t really make anymore power. They educated me on the correct way to build my car, supercharging is the way to go. They are also experts in that hydrolastic system and have the best prices on mini parts state side.
So sad to get this after buying stuff.
The MG Metro Turbo had basically the same engine, although with slightly larger combustion chamber volume.
Looking forward to this, built a few A Series with my dad in my younger days. Go as big as you can with the intercooler Rich.👍🏻
Damn, your putting the rebuild in richrebuilds on this one. This is some serious work from what I can tell. Would be curious to see more of the engine build since this is such an old car.
Keep up the good work
Really looking forward to seeing this Mini all done. :)
THIS is the content I love.
Reminds me I need to order parts and sort out my passenger front brake caliper on my '74 Mk3. Not really diggin' the grey, but you do you Uncle Rich, however that chocolate interior is very schmoove. Props to John.
Nice shirt john! I worked at autosound years ago too. Used to do 12volt and sunroof back in the day
Coming together great! Great interior ideas too!
Ha ha - I like it when Rich says about '$10,000 then?' knowing full-well that a full set of bearing shells for main bearings and big-end bearing for a mini is about £100 ($120?). This is why we keep coming back :-)
That Mini is going to be a great car, just make the paint two toned, like white pearl on top and metallic wine red bottom (or British flag theme). With all the horses in the stable, it should turn some heads. Thumbs up for the team! 👍 You're making a good job.
this was all done in the 80's mg metro turbo engine bolted in with a weld in box in the firewall where the turbo sits and dump the whole rear suspention for a beam axle with coil overs
Awesome and outstanding as always
Man Rich is so nice to buy surplus navy paint
Maybe Uncle Rich is a fan of seaman. LoL
But not Navy blue 😒
@@JeffKopis More of the "Kreig" (Warhammer40k) vibe
Doing a great job on the real Mini big respect, all the Mini owners I have known over the years have made each their own. Some have put in engines out of an old Austin Maxi 1750cc others have used engines out of other Mini's like replacing an 850cc with a 1275cc but the interior's we won't go there.
Many people reckon you can get more power from an overbored A series than from the 1750cc E series engine.
@@cambridgemart2075 That is true I love the old Mini and worked on quite a few but now they are far out of my price range or they need so much welding it would be cheaper to buy a new body.
@@mclarenjohnf1 A very old friend has her husband's old 1959 mini in a garage where it has been for 35 years now,; we have tried to persuade her to put it up for auction as it's probably worth a small fortune, but she won't part with it.
@@cambridgemart2075 I know people like that my uncle has 2 motorbikes in his old garage that I remember sitting on and stuff when I was 7 so that would be about 1972 and he would rather give you his left arm than sell those yet he purchased a Chinese version of a Honda 250 super dream not long ago.
John your work is awesome your a great addition to the channel
I heard somewhere that if you put a 400cid crank in that Mini motor, it'll bump the displacement up to 383!!! 😃
I'm surprized you didn't just drop the subframes, far easier to sort the engine out that way, and check for rust where the subframes bolt on, here in the uk the rot very quickly due to the salt they put on the roads.
It's nice to see a mini being restored, I had a normal mini and a mini pick up, years ago lol
The Hydroelastic suspension is junk for a performance Mini, you need hi-lo cones and rubber to get the best handling. Enjoying the build...you are doing it in a very British way. Blacked out engine bay etc...I learnt to mechanic from my Dad on Mini's and that reversed thread was one thing i do remember! Maybe a Chocolate roof would give it the real Mini Cooper vibe?
I wrote a book once it was a great success. All the other kids in the class loved my drawings
Hey Rich , American cars in the ‘50’s had left side reverse threads on wheel lugs, but not castle nuts.
I'm impressed. Rich is actually doing a solid restoration on a car for a change, instead of putting a diesel engine in it, or turning it into a rat rod or something. But I do get why he did a dodgy EV conversion on his new(er) Mini, those things are way less collectible than the original Mini Coopers. I still remember as a kid in NZ over 40 years ago when those Minis were still brand new. It's amazing that people are still valuing them. Is that engine from a newer car, like a Metro or something? It certainly doesn't look like the old A-series that the original cars had.
Your gonna need a engine steady bolted from the thermostat mount on the head, to the bulk head. I made this mistake of relying on the standard bone one, Once the power does the bushes and the engine rocks youll snap the carb off the inlet manifold. Save time and money, do it now.
14:42 SMART. I see so many people half-ass their engine bay, and so many times when they have the opportunity to do it too. If you're half way in, do it. Don't think just do it. Best paint should go on the engine bay and underside. Top side doesn't need the best, just wrap it with the best. Paint jobs are so last year.
excited for the audiobook!
What about the people that can’t hear or read??
I’m just gonna wait for the movie version. LoL 😂
Awesome build guys, Sir Mini Coop is gonna be a firecracker
Good build. Usually you guys fix junk up and afterwards it's still junk (except for the ICE Tesla). I like this build. Thanks for sharing.
What was it painted with ? An electric fence sprayer from Walmart?
The nuts are opposite threads for the same reason a British bottom bracket is on a bicycle. If the threads are the same way both sides then the rotation of the wheel will cause the near side nut to work loose. By having them opposite threads then the rotation of the wheel makes the nut actually get tighter
Lol, Classic Mopar cars used Left hand and Right hand rotation lug nuts too. It’s not just a british thing.
I cannot wait to see it in action, so much classier than the "new mini"
Good job Richard houndstooth interesting
Jeremy from Jet is the best! I've been flying RC helis with him for 20 years!
so beautiful. really great to see you do a build with tasteful upgrades!
Looking forward to seeing it drive. Should be impressive with that engine and turbo.
Uncle Rich, have you considered putting the union jack on the roof of the mini out of matte and gloss vinyl? you could retain the grey colour that way
Oh nice 👍🏾, can’t wait to hear those turbo noises, will it also make pops and crackle sounds. Hopefully it shoots flames 🔥 out the tail pipe.
You should get the front and rear lights to do a sequence on start up.
Congratulations on your book. To me your best videos were your original Tesla rebuild. I found your channel during the middle of it and they was fascinating to watch. Against all odds, with trial and error and no support from Elon and Tesla, you made that car run again. It was epic. Your perseverance was truly impressive. I don't know if you will ever top that rebuild. The ICE-T build and some of your other videos are interesting and entertaining, but not as compelling.
You definitely need a larger carburettor. I used to have a Dellorto 45 on mine, I had to cut in a battery box from the boot into the dash to make space for it though
I am watching this in March like a BOSS 👌💪
The reverse thread was a very common strategy in old cars since one wheel will turn clockwise and get tighter as it rolls, but the other one will unscrew itself, but if you do a reverse thread, that movement will tighten the nut.
I want to say the old chryslers had reverse thread lug nuts back in the late 50's early 60's
Yup! And older US military vehicles.
@@raullasvegas I think Chrysler used them until early 1971. Maybe it was early 70.
Congrats on the book. Thats big.
John does very nice work.
Lovely shade of primer you chose
9:25 I think those washers are how the caster alignment is adjusted (basically they are shims) and yes the order is specific and they are different thicknesses.
Jaguar did the same #$%^ on my 2002 XKR and its a massive pain in the arse.
British cars YEAH BABY.
It’s definitely cool. I’m a little surprised that with the new turbo go kart engine you didn’t upgrade the brakes at all but I also don’t know much about the originals
The houndstooth seats are going to look so damn good.
I don't care what Tavarish says you're one of the best car guys looking forward to the next video always
That is a very sexy build this far, look forward to see it running when it is done.
The Mini definitely needs Stevon's magic touch. When is he coming back? No more teasers. You're still my dawg though Rich.
stevon made a channel search box eclectic
Older mopars had reverse thread lug nuts on one side... and many were changed to lh thread, but you never really know, broke a few over the years.
If u think about it, rotation of the driver side with the vehicle going forward will loosen a nut while passenger side tightens. Guess thts what they were thinking with the left hand thread.
If the setup is a blow through carburettor system, the dashpot needs a clamp on the cap; MG Metro turbos had the clamp fitted when they discovered the top cap could be ejected under boost.
ye... the gap between those cylindars is basically brown paper bag level, you turbo that for any length of time and your 4 piston will have more in common with a 2 stroke, you should hot up something like a toyota R series from 70s, the blocks on those are stupidly thicc and thick too
If that's the stock rad fan on there, its backwards. Still blows air the right way like that, but not as much and can cause overheating issues. Very common problem
Primer looks great.
When they make rods, they are forged, a single piece. The they machine that single piece out for the crank bore, then the top of the crank for the piston pin and then drilling and tapping for the caps. Once they have completed all of that, The crank is cracked in half. That cracked surface gives a perfect profile when putting it back together but it only goes on one way. Then inside each side of that crack they either machine or compress the metal for the bearing relief locks.That's why you have to keep the crank orientation to its cap because one cap might go on another crankshaft but it won't line up on that forge crack. Likewise if you flip it around and it's on the same crankshaft the forge crack won't mate up. They only go together one way and that's why.
That is the case with a lot of modern rods but it wasn't the case back when the Mini was manufactured. According to Google Ford was the first to utilize fractured rods starting in 1990.
Alex Moulton designed the suspension on classic Mini. The same type of suspension was utilised on the bicycles branded with his name.
That grey color looks a lot like Rust-oleum Ash Grey spray paint. Was going to buy some packs of that recently off of Amazon but that specific color is for some reason more expensive than any other color.
Beautiful. Love this build
Man Chad really knows his stuff. Super cool.
Whoever is watching this video, I hope this day will be a great day.😇
Hey Rich you might want to spin that radiator fan around, its on backwards, the fan profile doesnt work so well that way around to push the air through the radiator, But Nice Mini! Ive had a fair few now xD
Ready for that book!!
Porsche 911 gt3rs with centerlock wheels also uses reverse thread on one side. Nice porsche build!
Respect to you and what you do
Wow, man. That thing's lookin' clean. The deadpan serious while BSing... lol
I'm not into reading other than forums but if you swear their is a life story and something educational i might actually pull trigger n get this book
Can't wait to see more!
I think the BusáWabbit is my favorite build of yours of all time.