1975_mini

Looks great, well done:congrats::top: Did you order a beltline kit, or use red electrical tape?

Random gusts caused by motoring minis:top:

There is not a turn by turn, predriven route. We let the road lead us

To be more specific coffee flavored coffee. [emoji5]️ Naughty girls sounds good to me.

Brandy and I are in. Picked up ebony from Dr passport today, she had spiked a fever, lucky no EBOLA just a bad thermostat housing. [emoji6]

I painted the wife's. It is a pretty easy process: base coat, wet sand, clear coat, wet sand. It like 20 bucks in supplies.

Cooling fan motor crapped out.

First Brandy got sick of me smelling like molasses, so she bought me these. Should come in handy with the looming Ebola outbreak too. The block has crawled out of the ooz after 3 weeks and I am ecstatic with the results. Paint oiled, and will try to get it to the machinist to have the cylinders honed this week. Some Additional parts I let soak for a week and hit with a fresh coat of paint. Put the crank, cam and pistons down for a soak today.

Great idea for a thread, thanks for posting it

Forge I shot you a PM

wish I wasn't traveling. I need to make the next one

Pulled the head out of the molasses bath today after two weeks. Powerwashed, baked at 200 degrees for 30 minutes (don't tell brandy), taped, painted, and oiled. Sorry Ali no orange decided to go with year collect black. just need to replace a valve guide on cylinder one and it will be ready to reassemble. for the guide I plan to heat the block and freeze the guide, hopefully that gives enough play to press it in with my 3 ton press.

Gen 2

I didn't get to name my car, Brandy told Ali she like Watson, and that made it offical.

and it's about two inches longer than that smart car of yours.

I left this with the block and head going down for a molasses bath. I decide to take a peak and see how it was doing today. This was what I found when I popped the top, I guess that means its working Here are the pieces hosed off they are sqeaking clean, but going to drop for another week to finish off the trouble rust spots in the water jackets and thermostat housing. Very impressed with the results of a $10 bottle of molasses and some water versus $150 to have it hot tanked. hope to be painting them next weekend:top:

Came across this sweetie, while doing my saturday morning craiglisting. Looks clean, and all the little odds and ends have been done to make it a reliable weekend toy. http://charlottesville.craigslist.org/cto/4652577766.html

Sounds like we may need a "Beezle Bing" party

Only have the driver and passenger door handles left on brandy's mini and all chrome gone:top:

That's the currency I work for as well

sure, and i will tell everyone its a hemi:rock:

Well as I see some yellow in the leaves, it was time to decide on my winter project. I picked up a 1098cc engine with a manual transmission a while back, as an upgrade from watson's current 998cc and automatic transmission. I broke it all the way down and it has been sitting in tubs under the work bench. I decided it would be a good winter project to rebuild. So here is what is looked like when i got it. So I started the prepping the block and head this weekend. bare block and head with 46 years of paint, grease, and grime After degreasing Now down for a two week molasses bath to get rid of all the surface rust and scaling in the water jackets. I swear there is a block and head in that oozs somewhere. Here is the link to all the photos to anyone interested further. http://s1299.photobucket.com/user/buckshot2191/library/Watson/1098cc%20rebuild

Thanks, are you thinking white or green

Anytime you are just around the corner.

I passed a few Minis on my 24 round trip to Jacksonville, NC and back. I will say when I see a MINIs driving 5 mph under the speed limit in the left lane, that Sarah Mclauklin song from the ASCA commercials plays in my head as I pass.