Saturday 9 July 2016

End of a nice voyage...

And thanks for the fishes :-).














Engine setup

We use an Innovate Motorsports LM2 wide band O2 sensor to set the mixture. Normally we with some effort we can find a suitable needle. This time we had to go on the hard route, making 2 identical special needles. The have to be identical down to 0.02mms at each 16 measuring positions. It took us 3 days to get there.


Balancing and rebalancing is mandatory in order to get the car through the emission test. Before releasing the car, the emmission was set to 3.5CO and 630HC.


We modified the damper system for better accelerator reaction.


Interiour

The dashboard we did after some period pictures. We used as many period correct parts as we could. The door was cut from an original Jaguar dashboard. 11 layers of clearcoats went on it.


The lock and the hinges are also period correct parts. jut like the chrome stop.


The Innocenti window system gave us a bit of trouble...


Thanksfully the trimmer was lazy to cut the winder's hole on the leather. His misstake was our gain :-D.


Period original steering wheel, retrimed in Connolly leather.


NOS Britax inetria seat belts make the final touches on the interiour.





Assembly 4.

Though most of the parts were rebuilt before, there were some that escaped :-).


The sticker needs to go back after repaint. Although it is not visible once assembed, but I KNOW that it is there :-D.


Although we replaced the original points with an electronic ignition system, we painted the coil black, and camouflaged it with a period correct sticker.


Our Porsche project left us with a bit of race quality CV grease. Why not using it on the Mini :-)?


All switches were taken apart and cleaned to assure good contact.


Nice detail is the sticker on the wheel. We did it after the remains of the original sticker.