Morris Minor Fast-ish Road Build Part 3: Marina Pedal Box Installation
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2022
- The standard Morris Minor brake and clutch pedals work well enough, but leave little room for upgrades. In this video I will weld a bracket onto the car that will allow fitment of a Morris Marina pedal box, allowing me to use modern master cylinders.
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Brilliant
It's amazing what you are achieving without a big budget film crew behind you !
and very basic tools !
Thanks. The main limiting factor in my work is really the weather, available daylight, and lack of space. Tools can be bought, dry days not so much. I seem to be able to summon rain just by pressing record on my smartphone.
What a great video. Removing the regulator is fairly straightforward all you have to do is solder all the brown wires together. Keep up the good work.
Great video and great work fella.. My bro put the running gear out of a Vauxhall chavett in his moggy 1000 and also made it convertible.. Cheers 🍻
I thought about buying a Chevette instead of this, but in the end I prefer these chonky little cars.
I have really enjoyed watching this, keep up the good work.
how's Channing ? avidly watched & subscribed for many years now, classic vlog your first minor adventure.
I honestly don’t know why you have gone to so much trouble to modify your braking system? I had a 1959/60 Morris 1000 with the original braking system with the existing set up but I install a PBR vacuum braking system that stopped my little Morris on a six pence! The engine got rebored out to equivalent to a 1100 cc with domed pistons. I also changed the cam shaft & fitted a Cooper S 3/4 race cam. Ported the inlet & exhaust in the head & fitted a free flow exhaust manifold! The engine was quite lumpy at idle. But at full throttle it went like the clappers. Worst thing I ever did was sell it to a friend of my ex wife’s friend who gave it to her son who wrote the car off because it had too much power that he couldn’t control !
1. After years of collecting parts, I had all the pieces to do it.
2. Marina pedal box installations used to be commonplace, but virtually all info about them now online has been lost. Now there's this video for people to reference.
3. I don't like external servo systems. They are messy and take up more space than necessary.
4. The original 8 inch drums are not great for fast driving. It doesn't matter how much you boost them, they fade and become inconsistent. Boosting them is arguably worse, since it reduces your ability to modulate the brake pedal and reduce heat. The Escort disc brake system I'm going to install in conjunction with this MX-5 master will be superior in just about every way. The better the brakes are, the later you can brake, which means more time on throttle, and makes the car faster.
5. This system is dual circuit, and therefore safer.
6. This engine will be replaced at some point in the future with a much faster one, probably a twin cam. Getting the brakes squared away now is expedient.
7. I've not seen anyone else use an MX-5 master with Ford discs, so doing something different is nice.
8. I prefer the top-hinging pedals.
9. I'm a tinkerer. If I see an opportunity to improve something. I'll usually take it. Ultimately, I'm doing it because I can. Being able to out-brake the young scallywags in their Corsas and Fiestas will also be fun.
I hope that answers your question.
Great work but, the bleed nipple on the clutch should be on the top of the slave cylinder to aid bleeding.
On a Mini that's right, but this is the correct orientation for a RWD gearbox. I bled the last of the air out off camera with someone to open the bleed nipple, and it only took a couple of goes to get the last of the air out, since it's such a short system. Works a charm :)
i have a suspicion that your feed rate on your MIG may be slightly too fast. Nice work though.
I have a new welder now with a dial-adjustable inverter for the power, much easier to set. This old one just had a transformer with 4 settings.
@@Scrubworksfab!
Instead of welding bolts onto the pedal box why not use nut serts?
Also with the vacuum why not drill and tap the inlet manifold for a fitting for the vacuum hose.
I've never really been a fan of rivets or nutserts. Besides, when you're sitting there with a welder and a bag of 100 M8 nuts, it just becomes the logical thing to do. As for the vacuum fitting, I thought about that, but the original carb will be used for literally 100 miles or so of running in, then will be removed. The original manifold and carb will be a lot more saleable if there isn't a hole in it.
@@Scrubworks fair enough if you have all the nuts you may as well use them.