Goodmorning everybody,
Was a bit busy over the weekend and yday as well! So here it goes.
minicooper,
thinking about it, maybe its time to create the fastmanclub, however if we can get ben johnson, carl lewis, maureen green and such to join the club it will make more sense ? hehehe :D
About the mini you have, sounds interesting, but currently NO budget for racing! hehehe, just want to get my car out first. Once its all up and going then lets see how, but thanks for the offer. I would really like to do it but real life constraints are putting a stop to it currently.
sureshn,
have the sumpguard sitting in the boot of my car, need to take a pic and put it up. Hang in there k! Sorry have been very busy.
you say it wasnt idling nicely, what is the actual problem? it doesnt idle at all or it idles for a while and goes on three cylinders or just doesnt rev cleanly from idle? on the first two cases just look out for mixture levels. If i am not mistaken the HS4 has a mixture adjusting screw maybe this needs a lil tweaking. Off my head its (looking at the carb, thermostat housing on the right) clockwise to lean the mixture and counterclockwise to make it rich. From fully close it think its 2 and a half turns open for a suggested starting point. Its been a while since I played with HS4, so i might be wrong!
twistedangel,
nice no! u joining the white top look too eh. Havent seen ur car before. Do you have stripes as well? or planning to put one?
somefella,
welcome to the club. Sounds like you are into escorts!
1. Nope. Suggest order directly from UK
2. As above
3. As above
4. Kelisa best of with 14's as they are easier to find. Check out the for sale section and a guy has a set of 14's for sale. I think its around 500 and they like to use the term banana rims! Also they are very popular with drifters esp the AE86 as they run 14s. Although not called superlite or minilite or ultralite or minilife, they have their own type such as Enkei and RS Watanabe!
5. Gaskets best of to get direct from the UK. Its hard to get any type of jets, emulsion tubes, venturis or even chokes locally. You can sometimes get lucky with this chap called Ramli in Kg. Medan, PJ area. He has some jets and chokes for DCOE's and DCNF's. What IDA do you have at your store? Sounds interesting. Mind posting up more details of it?
6. Again hard to find item but i have seen one or two around. Maybe you can try Rosli at Subang. A turboed mini with DCOE is what we need here. I believe for forced induction the code is then DCOE-SP as they come with seals around the butterfly.
pow,
as mentioned by minicooper if it aint broke dont fix it! Injections are more complicated as they require more sensors and wirings and alos an ecu. A diagnostic tool is required to read the info stored in the ECU. Any faults will then be shown which can then be traced to the correct sensors or fault areas. Not many ppl have the diagnostic tool here (maybe none) thus rendering things more difficult. The blacktop (with minicooper) engines are suprisingly very responsive and powerful with a 3.1 final drive.
I have a complete 1.3 injection manual wiring loom/harness up for sale. Excellent condition. The engine only did 30,000km when i bought it. I am using a custom wiring loom thus this is for sale.
Was driving on the NS highway back from Penang on Sunday, saw a small convoy of three minis all done up nicely heading the opp direction doing i reckon around 120-130 kmh. Looked and sound very nice. I think i saw them somewhere at Bidor or Tapah. Anyone knows who they are? Sorry no num plates as it was in the opp lane.
fastclubman
