Here’s a quick picture of Julius at night. Looks SO cool!
Ignore the big ceiling light on the roof. I forgot it was there.
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Here’s a quick picture of Julius at night. Looks SO cool!
Ignore the big ceiling light on the roof. I forgot it was there.
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2009| Leave a Comment »
It’s not too exciting, but here’s a pic of the new radiator cap. The old one was too short to seal properly, and besides, it was OLD!
Posted in Uncategorized on August 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »
After taking apart the shifter assembly again, I found that I assembled one of the pieces wrong. Now we have all four gears and much better shifting. It’s more of a proper “H” pattern than a lower case “k”.
Lizzie wasn’t as excited as I was.
Posted in Uncategorized on August 7, 2009| Leave a Comment »
There was an old steering wheel out of a MK1 VW Scirocco in the garage and I noticed the rivets on the hub had the same oddball 7-bolt pattern as the mini. So I drilled out all of the rivets and bolted it right onto the old hub. It looks perfect and feels 100% better than that old busted, tiny go-kart steering wheel.
Posted in Uncategorized on August 7, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Minis aren’t very quiet by nature, so I will be putting in some sound deadening on the floors and firewall to keep the ruckus down. Jenny shouldn’t have to suffer in her dream car. 😉
I got some of the stuff they use in high-end stereo installations and have been doing a little at a time.
Here’s the front floor area done:
Posted in Uncategorized on August 6, 2009| Leave a Comment »
I put some spacers on to bring the wheels out flush with the fenders and to keep the tires from rubbing on the inside.
Posted in Uncategorized on August 5, 2009| Leave a Comment »