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Flambė the seats would give them patina for sure 🔥

Seats look really good. Leather stretches and creases easily, especially if the roam / structure underneath deteriorates. Even new seats will look used after a short period of time

Super jealous. I am saving up to do my indicator assembly unit. Previous owner broke the left indicator piece and now it doesn't stay indicating or whenever it does, it'll just go off again

I would replace that cable , the plastic will probably crack after being heated up like that. And the leather on the seats look really loose , they should've tightend that up to be honest. Take your time with electrics Keith , don't do quick connections. Stay safe.

Will this car be going up for sale or is it being kept ?

Hey that's the same piece I got from where you live.

Interior looks mint. Nic eone

Seats look great, don’t want them to look new in my opinion, take it easy mate, don’t rush, we all need to see it finished , but no mistakes needed, we all do it. Did you get my email, as I had a bit of a problem sending it, cheers Keith

I think hats expensive for what they've done and wouldn't use them again.. Car looks great though and lucky escape with the cables shorting

glad all is well I had a dead short in my old S due to me putting a large bore maniflow and the main cable under neath melted to the exhaust very scary

Hiya Keith-seats look great I think. Bit of a close call with the wiring loom though. Keep well and keep going. Nearly there now.

Cant wait for the engine

Bloody hell 😂

Another load of goodies, I can’t help think about your poor bank account but we all know it’s worth every penny to make another classic mini look that good. It’ll all be so worth it. Blimey that ending wasn’t expected but so glad you noticed the flames before it got too bad. Hopefully the electrics are ok and the carpet isn’t damaged. Just goes to show that things like this can happen so quickly.

Should your engine not have forged valve rockers instead of those standard pressed steel ones?

The vacuum hose length most likely suits the split brake servo which, while higher than yours is also closer to the manifold. Put an NRV inline & that would lengthen the hose.

Thanks for this video, very helpful. I am about to put in my jacking points as mine were completely rotten out. I put in repair sections for the inner sill around the seat tunnel area too. Locating the jacking point is what I came to your videos to see how to do that. Unlike you however, my step is still in place, so that is a battle I am working around, how to put in the jacking point with the step still there., as its harder to locate as you cant see in from the step side with the step there obviously. I am going to trip the top tab of the jacking point bracket too as I found its too long and actually hits the step and makes the bottom of the jacking point sit too low, which impacts the outer sill. I also have to replace the front and rear brackets that the outer sill goes on, so if you have videos showing that, please do direct me there. If you have a video showing installing the jacking point with the step still in place, I would love to see that too. Thanks again for your videos and expertise. Hi from NZ.

Pressed steel rockers? S had forged rockers didn't they?

Looking fantastic Mark Stirling job done again

Great Job Keith. very impressive. Cheers

Looking good,it would been nice if you would have shown alittle on the wet suppension on how you put it back in and re blead the system

Really enjoying this build Keith, great work.

Hi keith/mark, i may be able to source some carb filter inlets if you cant get the original ones back.

Blimey the underneath looks as awesome as the rest of the car. Engine bay is a work of art and a lot of man hours.

Excellent progress Mark.. When I stopped restoring Mini's I sold off a load of spares like the carb elbows and two original twin carb filter boxes, plus half a dozen hydrolastic units, Original Mk lll heater, two reconditioned servos with brackets, callipers and disks etc, etc.. That servo hose does look a bit on the short side .. I can remember a number of times I wished I had an extra two inches. 😅..

I started mine up yesterday, first time in 7 years (where does the time go). Blimey I thought I had bad luck, I HATE new parts, I keep ordering them, and they’re wrong/different (size, quality, colour). At least we’re both nearly there. I’m never doing a nut and bolt restore again, I’ll just do restores where it’s nice, but not like new. Stay strong, nearly there 👍 (can that vacuum pipe go above the brake line?)

I started mine up yesterday, first time in 7 years (where does the time go). Blimey I thought I had bad luck, I HATE new parts, I keep ordering them, and they’re wrong/different (size, quality, colour). At least we’re both nearly there. I’m never doing a nut and bolt restore again, I’ll just do restores where it’s nice, but not like new. Stay strong, nearly there 👍 (can that vacuum pipe go above the brake line?)

Great job mark I know the problems you have had over the weeks hopefully you have now sorted it great video Keith

Looking minty!

Hiya Mark-just looks brilliant. Twin SU carbs really make it! Look forward to hearing it firing up for the first time. Keep well.

Looks very nice indeed 👍 will you be getting the engine back soon ?

the heel board is a disaster even when its good..what clown thought this fabrication on the mini was a good piece of engineering and they have had fifty years to sort it out and havnt..dogs breakfast of a design

Hi Keith, coming along bundles now, keep up the good work, have you got somewhere I can private message you please mate, cheers Phil

wheels are amazing. would love a set of these. I think these were fitted to the 1989 Racing Green in the famous Autocar roadtest

Well done young man! I wonder how long it took to connect the manifolds? Mine are 1 1/4” on a 998 so, you may have more room but mine took me ages!!!!

Looking good Keith almost there great video

She looks great Keith. I had the same issue with my front grill, to get it in right position the grill was 5mm too high. It closed OK, so I didn’t grind it down.

So neat. Good work mate

To align the bonnet trim on the purple car remove the trim and put some spacers/washers in to get the alignment right. I've used rubber o-rings in the past as spacers.

Thanks for showing the rivnuts at the end, I've never used them before. I'll have to invest for my grille - it's terribly aligned and you've made me self conscious now.

Re-use and recycling on a not-for-profit u-tube company. Bound to be a tax dodge there somewhere?

Love your latest video, car looks stunning. You may have mentioned previously, but do you know what make and size the wheels are please? I have a 90 Cooper and would like the same! My mum bought a Racing Green in 1989 and I remember seeing them at the Rover dealers. Everyone used to stop us to ask about it. It was such an exciting time for the mini, the big comeback, people don't realise the impact it had then (including the conversion kit). People that knew them from the 60s were still around to talk about them, the white roof was back!

Looks fantastic. May I suggest a longer hose for the pressure washer which saves you having to move the machine. Also a high speed blower to chase out water from nooks and crannies. When is the engine coming back?

I always put lock tite on rivnuts to prevent them spinning around in the future when the stainless screws have corroded the aluminium , that's a right pita. 😏

Looking really good now! Waiting for the racing green decals to go on. Any self tapping screws on my mini I replace with rivnuts now, even did the sun visors 😂

You do make things look easy 👏 what size rivnuts did you use? Cheers 👍

Top tip * i always spray rivnuts with cavity wax to guard against the dreaded rust. Also i spray the back of the grill with wax. Nice job looks great 👍

Just out of curiosity, will you rivnut the bonnet trim? You find the bonnets tend to rust around that area with the screws. I'm not sure if there's enough space for rivnuts though? Looks really nice with the rivnuts in. I've tried my grille on & it fits awful, hope I can get it fitting as good as yours 👍. Looks spot on the front 👌.

does the Racing Green have a strike plate for the bonnet safety catch hook? I like the way on my Japanese SPI mini there is a little plate that sits on the lip, so the hook hits that rather than the body. I guess PIIIOW would have it too?