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Yes sorry Odometer. Wouldn't there be some sort of protection against clocking a modern mini. Do the clocks store the mileage or is that the mini ecu's job? |
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I've been playing around with clusters from current model Korean cars for a client recently and they're nice and basic - the odometer is stored in a little EEPROM in the cluster (which incidentally you can change quite easily!) The mini is rather more complicated. From reading up on them, you cant just swap clusters from one car to another as they are coded to each individual vehicle. Apparently you have to get a replacement cluster reprogrammed by BMW before it will work in your car. A bit more research required I think! |
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That's enough of electrickery for now... Back to the metal bashing!
This week I have mostly been sorting out my seat mounting. I won these on ebay a few weeks back for the princely sum of £27 each: After nearly a month of excuses from the seller they finally arrived (much to my joy and surprise!). In the meantime I'd been trying to win some cheap runners, after many failed attempts I finally bit the bullet and bought some new ones from kitparts direct. Again, they took ages to arrive, but not nearly as long as the seats thankfully (why is it so hard to stick something in the post once you've sold it???). The mounting holes in the runners were well off where I needed them, but a spot of drilling soon fixed that. I had originally intended to weld 50mmx3mm flat strips into the chassis to mount the runners on and had them cut to length ready. As it happened I couldn't mount the runners flat on the floor as the adjusters got in the way so I used 25x25mm box section instead: I'm actually glad I didn't mount them as I had planned as after fitting the seats I popped my scuttle on top of the chassis. I didn't realise quite how high it sat - if the seats were any lower I doubt I could see over it, and as it is it's going to be marginal. Might have to borrow one of the kids booster seats. The seats themselves are a very tight fit in the chassis. They only just squeeze between the rails, and I think I may have to trim a little off them once I've added the ally panels to the tranny tunnel. One potential issue with using the MX5 for a donor is that you have to flare the back of the tranny tunnel out as the input to the diff is offset. This means my seats won't go all the way to the seatbacks, stopping a few inches short. Luckily for me I'm a bit, erm, vertically challenged, so not a problem. I suspect most of my mates are going to struggle to drive it though. Nevermind! Last edited by skov : 2nd July 2011 at 11:20 PM. |
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I think I won't bother with seats then! Nice progress post, inspiring.
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More progress tonight.
I've been studying Saturns build pics and shamlessly knicked their idea for how to do the steering wheel/column support. It feels great having seats and a wheel in the chassis, it makes sitting in it and going brum brum very satisfying indeed Ideally I would have liked the steering wheel a bit lower, but that blooming TR9 gets in the way. I tried putting the column below it first, but then there was no room for my knees |
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Looks good where did you get the bearing from?
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Skov, The rhs you have got to mount the seats on will need crush tubes through the rhs so the bolts can't crush the tube..I'm sure IVA will want evidence of it even if it's only a photo while the chassis is being made.
Mark |
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Thanks Mark, didn't think of that.
Any idea how thick the walls of the crush tubes need to be? |
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skov i cant belevie you scrapped your donor in that state. the roof/wings bumpers and boot lid would have netted you another £400 then the lights and loom plus the subframes another £250 odd. your a mad man!
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