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| Lars Kristian |
| Posted on: October 10th, 2005, 13:00:08 |
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Looking for a mk3 chassis for racing purpose.
My needs: super lightweight chassis with crossmember (alu/magnesium :  ) or light stainless steel (to prevent rust). full FIA rollcage, strengthen floor for the seat - space for weber - all painted in one piece.
Anyone?
For inspiration - look at the white one:
http://www.tonythompsonracing.co.uk/Racecars_for_sale_.html
Best regards
lars kristian
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| Volker |
| Posted on: November 26th, 2005, 16:12:38 |
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Hi Lars,
do you want to take part in historic racing or a kind of "modsport"? |
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| Lars Kristian |
| Posted on: November 27th, 2005, 05:25:56 |
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Hi Lars,
do you want to take part in historic racing or a kind of "modsport"?
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App K, periode G1 (66-69) historic racing in N, S and DK, but same regulations as European championship. |
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| Lars Kristian |
| Posted on: April 18th, 2006, 11:21:15 |
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App K, periode G1 (66-69) historic racing in N, S and DK, but same regulations as European championship.
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| Neil KilBane |
| Posted on: April 18th, 2006, 14:08:09 |
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| Andy Seward |
| Posted on: April 20th, 2006, 00:41:06 |
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It certain does! Really well done, Lars. How did you get the wheel openings to be a bit, well... more open?
I'd really like to see more photos.. it looks to be in excellent condition.
Best Regards,
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"When you come to a fork in the road....take it."
- Yogi Berra, Manager, New York Yankees
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| Lars Kristian |
| Posted on: April 20th, 2006, 06:56:22 |
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It certain does! Really well done, Lars. How did you get the wheel openings to be a bit, well... more open?
I'd really like to see more photos.. it looks to be in excellent condition.
Best Regards,
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Its Stef Jones' old car chnr 7153. Edwin Solheim and I have had it in pieces and upgraded several parts, but the wheel openings is not our work... It used to run on 12'' or 13''
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| admin |
| Posted on: April 20th, 2006, 11:16:58 |
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| Volker |
| Posted on: April 21st, 2006, 22:20:36 |
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Great looking car Lars  , looks better than a 26R!
Have you put on a weight scale already?
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| Lars Kristian |
| Posted on: April 24th, 2006, 08:03:16 |
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Great looking car Lars , looks better than a 26R!
Have you put on a weight scale already?
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No Volker, 2-3 weeks time. Thats the big moment....
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| Lars Kristian |
| Posted on: June 21st, 2006, 07:50:51 |
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Great looking car Lars , looks better than a 26R!
Have you put on a weight scale already?
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Weight scales yesterday. 585 kg. 386 kg front ant 197 kg rear. Need to loose weight, some 40-50 kg..... 
This included 12 litres of fuel, but without water. The roll cage and Sparco chair is many kilos, but i prefer to have this for security reasons.
Where do I start to cut 
Rear frame has not been modified (drilled). Std swingarms, Hi-Lo etc, in other words std S.
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| paul harcourt |
| Posted on: June 21st, 2006, 17:07:29 |
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| How about an aluminium cylinder head Lars? |
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| Lars Kristian |
| Posted on: June 22nd, 2006, 07:56:02 |
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How about an aluminium cylinder head Lars?
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The head has to be cast iron according to the homologation papers.
Rae Davis states in the article on the Goodwood-marcos that "the usual rear subframe setup is replaced by a lightweight beam axle, which Marcos homologated for racing but never used in 1966".
A proof or document on this, or even better - the homologationpaper for this, would have been valuable for me!
This could have saved me a lot of kg.
Anyone with knowledge here? |
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| Volker |
| Posted on: June 22nd, 2006, 09:40:57 |
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Hi Lars,
if you want to fit a rear beam (like the Speedex one) you need to fit coil-over shocks as well, please consider that this could give you some wheel arch clearance problems due to the 2.25" springs. It will save you almost the total weight of the original rear frame. Try to find some alloy trainling arms to save some further weight.
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| admin |
| Posted on: June 22nd, 2006, 10:04:25 |
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| ... then add a bag of cement to keep the back end down |
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| Lars Kristian |
| Posted on: June 22nd, 2006, 13:03:07 |
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Ok,
The car had coil over when Stef drove it, but with the std swing arms and subframe. But the question is what FIA say - or what I shall tell them....
Anyone know what Rae Davis talking about? |
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| paul harcourt |
| Posted on: June 22nd, 2006, 15:54:30 |
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I have seen a period beam axle for a mini that used a large diameter tube fixed between the rear hubs and fabricated lightweight tubes as trailing arms, this also used coil overs.
A bit like the rear live axle setup on a Fiat panda.
Mabey this was the type that Marcos homoligated?
Anybody know if this worked or not? I saw this on an aoutocross Mini in the early seventies.
The weirdest set up I remember had 3' long coilovers that went right up through the wheel arch angled forward to bolt to the rollover hoop, this gave the car incredible wheel travel for leaping over the jumps. |
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| John Dickens |
| Posted on: June 26th, 2006, 08:42:00 |
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I have seen a period beam axle for a mini that used a large diameter tube fixed between the rear hubs and fabricated lightweight tubes as trailing arms, this also used coil overs.
A bit like the rear live axle setup on a Fiat panda.
Mabey this was the type that Marcos homoligated?
Anybody know if this worked or not? I saw this on an aoutocross Mini in the early seventies.
The weirdest set up I remember had 3' long coilovers that went right up through the wheel arch angled forward to bolt to the rollover hoop, this gave the car incredible wheel travel for leaping over the jumps.
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I fabricated a beam 'dead' axle for my racer. (the car that Marcos Heritage are calling their Mk. VI GT).
I was not allowed to use spherical joints in the class I was racing so I used track rod ends on 2 parallel lower links and 2 diagonal upper links. It was a big improvement over the usual trailing arm independent suspension.
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| paul harcourt |
| Posted on: June 26th, 2006, 09:28:47 |
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Hi John,
Did you make any drawings for your dead axle so that it could be replicated? |
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| John Dickens |
| Posted on: June 26th, 2006, 11:15:44 |
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I did but I used them as templates when I was welding it up so they didn't survive.
I could give you a brief outline of the basics and sketch what I did but the dimensions I more or less made up as I went along.
I did pay attention to the advice in the Vizard 'Modify your Mini' book and set the roll centre very high. |
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| Pete Crudgington |
| Posted on: June 29th, 2006, 12:35:17 |
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Rae's car is fitted with a Maguire Mini Rear beam and Maguire fabricated rear arms, these were made in the lat 70's or early 80's when Maguire were doing the Maguire minis. He probably got Jem to write a letter to the FIA saying it was O.K. to use them and that he had infact used them in 1966!
The homolgation papers show a full front and rear subframe with no options of any thing else. (Rubber is the spring medium, so no coil overs allowed!).
The alloy KAD arms are best avoided, we have had them bend on us when using slicks on Julian Howells mini.
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| Lars Kristian |
| Posted on: June 29th, 2006, 12:57:23 |
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Rae's car is fitted with a Maguire Mini Rear beam and Maguire fabricated rear arms, these were made in the lat 70's or early 80's when Maguire were doing the Maguire minis. He probably got Jem to write a letter to the FIA saying it was O.K. to use them and that he had infact used them in 1966!
The homolgation papers show a full front and rear subframe with no options of any thing else. (Rubber is the spring medium, so no coil overs allowed!).
The alloy KAD arms are best avoided, we have had them bend on us when using slicks on Julian Howells mini.
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Thank you very much. Highly appreciated information! I was on my way to order KAD swing arms.
/lars kristian |
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| Chris Pearson |
| Posted on: June 30th, 2006, 15:26:54 |
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| Specialist components are doing billet radius arms now. Very ligh but no provision for a knuckle joint so coil over suspension is a must. |
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| Stuart |
| Posted on: June 30th, 2006, 19:36:07 |
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| Neil KilBane |
| Posted on: July 1st, 2006, 09:24:40 |
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| Lars Kristian |
| Posted on: July 18th, 2006, 09:11:33 |
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Finally in action.
Overheating after 3 laps, far too much brakes at rear, driving position suited for a monkey etc etc. Many things to sort out, but that the name of the game.
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| You need the small diameter slave cylinders on the back i.e 850/Cooper 'S' type with matching backplates. Even then an adjustable brake bias valve is useful, especially in the wet. |
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| Lars Kristian |
| Posted on: July 18th, 2006, 17:29:03 |
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You need the small diameter slave cylinders on the back i.e 850/Cooper 'S' type with matching backplates. Even then an adjustable brake bias valve is useful, especially in the wet.
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I know. Have an adjustable one under the bonnet, but couldn't reach this during the 3-4 laps i raced before overheating
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| paul harcourt |
| Posted on: July 21st, 2006, 22:34:34 |
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| John when you ran your racer with the dead beam axle, did you have to remove or cut into the spare wheel well and battery tray to allow for suspension movement? |
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| John Dickens |
| Posted on: July 22nd, 2006, 08:57:17 |
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Now you're asking!
Its a long time since I did this but I think I made the whole boot floor flat. I may even have had to put a raised section in as I made the roll centre very high so the diagonal links were mounted on a tower above the main tube.
This is roughly how it was set up. |
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| paul harcourt |
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Very interesting John thank you, the reason I am asking is that I have just purchased a dead beam axle with the intention of modifying it to fit as a future project.
I will have to get brake back plates welded on and a pair of coil overs to fit, but I am a bit worried about the torque action of the brakes with the welded trailing arms.
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| John Dickens |
| Posted on: July 22nd, 2006, 22:36:59 |
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I don't see how that set up can work. What happens when the body starts to roll or one wheel hits a bump? If all 3 trailing arms are welded to the axle then there's no articulation. The axle can only move up and down equally at both sides.
Maybe I'm not seeing it right?
The other drawback seems to be that the roll centre is at axle height. The Vizard recommendation is for it to be much higher. |
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| paul harcourt |
| Posted on: July 23rd, 2006, 08:57:20 |
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Yes I see what you mean, I will have to re-think this, possibly cut the trailing arms off and weld brackets to take them.
Seemed like a bargain at the time, but looks like it could start costing a fair bit in alloy welding !
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| John Dickens |
| Posted on: July 24th, 2006, 08:03:52 |
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| Don't take my word for it. Try it out. It's already assembled so clamp the 2 brackets to something solid like a bench then see if you can move the axle beam freely up and down and also up one side and down the other. |
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| Lars Kristian |
| Posted on: August 1st, 2006, 08:47:38 |
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Hi guys.
I have problem with the wiper motor. Got a brand new from mini spares with 110 degrees nylon ring. Mini mk2.
http://www.minispares.com/images/products/200/GXE7708.jpg
The problem is that it also wipes ca 20 cm on each side of the bonnet....
Any ideas? Can I swap the nylon ring to 80 degrees one - and where do i find this?
Its placed on the right hand side hence weber box. Std mini wiper wheel box etc. Planning to use just one arm. No wiper now....
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| This is the permanent magnet motor. I'm not sure what you mean by the 'nylon ring' but you can swap the big nylon gearwheel. The radius of the crank pin determines the throw of the rack. It may be possible to drill a new hole and relocate the pin. However it would be easier to change the wheelboxes for larger ones (with more teeth) if you can find them, |
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| Lars Kristian |
| Posted on: August 2nd, 2006, 07:29:49 |
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Hi,
yes, its the big nylon gearwheel. Do you know where i can find one with less than 110 degrees - say 70-80?
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| Nick Evans |
| Posted on: August 2nd, 2006, 12:58:20 |
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many years ago (before the mini marcos club was going or reserrected!) i read an article in a marcos owners club magazine by a friar who owned a jem, and he listed a whole range of british leyland cars, and the sweep of their wiper motors.
this led to me using a motor out a morris marina for my jem.
if its the later, round bodied motor (as opposed to the early square bodied one), the degrees of sweep is actually written on the large nylon gear wheel.
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