Blog posts tagged with '1320cars'

Now the racing has quietened down and the season is over we have got chance to begin Old Reds winder project. A massive overhaul of the wiring loom is being done, removing all unnecessary wires and a few engine bay modifications ;)

Engine bay stripped down





The dash has been removed to help get to all the wiring, then every bit of insulating tape, cloth tape has been removed from the wiring loom to begin stripping it down.





More updates to come!

We now stock & supply these wheels and bosses.

Another excuse to book your car into 1320MINI, you get to take out the courtesy Cooper S with KW V1 coilovers fitted!

Dirty Old stock suspention


Old Vs New


New ones going in




Scotty got the stance perfectly first time!

Engine in




Scott made some little brackets for the radiator so it is tilted forward slightly which gives us some more clearance behind.


Then Thomas welded up some lovley alloy pipes for the coolant system. We are trying out a One/Cooper thermostat housing, no header tank and no in car heater so we've had to modify the coolant system slightly. This pipe comes round round the oil heat exchanger and feeds into the rad.

It came in crashed, We tried to sell it, it didn't sell..............so we bring you

our latest r53 courtesy MINI



Jack and Scott adding finishing touches to the MINI.

Smooth leather, Harman Kardon sounds,Neuton tyres and soon a set of KW v1s.

We still believe there's some more left on the table :)

Old Red's latest dyno number, the difference from the previous dyno is JCW head with stock valves, 8.0-1 Wossner pistons, 1320 conrods, Mahle race bearings
Hopefully will find some more HP before the RWYB season starts in January at Santa Pod

The log book arrived on the Thursday we MOT it on the Friday and was racing our new deno MINI on the Saturday in totally stock form including runflats, I was quite pleased with the 1.35 but disappointed that I couldn't go faster when it mattered............I proberly did but I took out some cones on the pit straight so my time was disqualified.

As you can see someone wasn't happy with the previous owner ...............This JCW serial number is S7 and has covered 80,000 miles with 4 previous owners, if only it knew what sort of life it will lead now :)