Re: Onslow's Senior Mini Build

by michael 19 Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:37 am

You can walk into currans and get engine mounts and head gasket

by **Onslow675** Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:13 am

Not a competition head gasket and not solid engine mounts bounce

by **Onslow675** Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:07 am

Hopefully I won't break these after the mess I made of Janner's.

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by Josh-464 Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:16 am

I wouldnt recomend solid mounts. Youll crack your flywheel cover and run risk of damage to sump. Off previous experiance... Theyll do more damage

by michael 19 Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:32 am

Agree with josh. Your not in a standard chassis mini which flexes. Its a solid chassis. Any vibration or shock will find the weakest part. Poly/standard engine mounts will flex and disperse the shock. Ive been helping with a national ministox which are faster than our seniors and that has standard engine mounts on it.

by **lordy80 s/c** Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:20 am

michael 19 wrote:Agree with josh. Your not in a standard chassis mini which flexes. Its a solid chassis. Any vibration or shock will find the weakest part. Poly/standard engine mounts will flex and disperse the shock. Ive been helping with a national ministox which are faster than our seniors and that has standard engine mounts on it.

I stand corrected...!

by Josh-464 Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:33 am

VYup i thought it was a good idea. .. Turned out it wasnt[i]

by stanny 611 Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:21 am

onslow i use 2 standard engine mounts, a metro ruber mnt that goes round the starter motor and 3 engine steadies at the top off the engine, i would not use solid mnts

by **Twisty413** Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:26 am

stanny 611 wrote:onslow i use 2 standard engine mounts, a metro ruber mnt that goes round the starter motor and 3 engine steadies at the top off the engine, i would not use solid mnts

Agree with Stanny, a rubber is essential equipment when your sat in one of these beasts. I find a family pack is the best value, I'm pretty sure they'll do extra small for you. Basketball

by **lordy80 s/c** Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:24 am

Twisty413 wrote:
stanny 611 wrote:onslow i use 2 standard engine mounts, a metro ruber mnt that goes round the starter motor and 3 engine steadies at the top off the engine, i would not use solid mnts

Agree with Stanny, a rubber is essential equipment when your sat in one of these beasts. I find a family pack is the best value, I'm pretty sure they'll do extra small for you.

"sat in one of these beasts" .... wtf? .... get a grip its a 1275 mini ! a mini!

by david036 Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:25 am

One solid mount is fine, just not flywheel side!!!! As already mentioned it tends to break flywheel covers on a very regular basis!!!!! Learnt that the hard way

by **Twisty413** Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:27 am

lordy80 s/c wrote:
Twisty413 wrote:
stanny 611 wrote:onslow i use 2 standard engine mounts, a metro ruber mnt that goes round the starter motor and 3 engine steadies at the top off the engine, i would not use solid mnts

Agree with Stanny, a rubber is essential equipment when your sat in one of these beasts. I find a family pack is the best value, I'm pretty sure they'll do extra small for you.

"sat in one of these beasts" .... wtf? .... get a grip its a 1275 mini ! a mini!

Don't worry Glenn if extra small is too big for you then I'm sure they'll provide a rubber band to hold it in place.

by **ace234** Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:30 am

I know what gonagoslow is thinkin.. the extra power he has over you others will just tear the rubber ones in half.. and when ya flick it in, sideways, flat out, the engine will move on the rubbers, throwing 3 years of cornering weight calculations through the window..

by **Donkey Dawson** Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:29 pm

ace234 wrote:I know what gonagoslow is thinkin.. the extra power he has over you others will just tear the rubber ones in half.. and when ya flick it in, sideways, flat out, the engine will move on the rubbers, throwing 3 years of cornering weight calculations through the window..

by shady Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:24 am

the mini engine mounts are c**p.best thing i found was a solid mount on rad side of the engine and drill straight through a standard one and put 10mm nut and bolt through it so when it splits it cant come apart on clutch side+metro mount on starter housing to subframe and a couple of engine steadies on top.had to drill hole in subframe or clutch housing or both for nut/bolt head to go through,cant remrmber it was a long time ago

by Josh-464 Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:23 am

i used standard mounts, with plates stitch welded on the top & bottom of each mount, so insead of wrecking the alloy clutch housing it just sheers the metal, but makes the engine mounts strong enough to cope with nudging other cars out of the way, oh & a block of wood from the sump wedged into the front subframe to stop the bottom of the engine swinging forward.

by **Benny375** Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:25 am

Josh, i have a block of wood wedged in my undercrackers to stop my belly doing the same thing.

by andydawson475 Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:39 am

nearly 14000 blinking views and were still going

by **ace234** Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:42 am

it seems more..

by **Onslow675** Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:50 pm

I'll bore you even more going around the track at 15mph bounce

by **ace234** Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:05 pm

Have ya decided what your doing with the engine mounts ?

by **Onslow675** Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:45 pm

Not sure now, I prefer solid mounts because as Shady said the standard Mini mounts are c**p. I would prefer to use solid all round but don't want to keep breaking clutch housings. I 've got two additional tie bars so am hoping nothing will move and as per Josh's comment use a piece of wood between the gearbox and subframe to stop the engine swinging forward.

by andydawson475 Fri Mar 02, 2012 10:01 am

what colour are they going to be most importantly

by andydawson475 Fri Mar 02, 2012 10:01 am

if you painted them green i am sure that tommy and stav would welcome you into the headbanger A team with them

by **Onslow675** Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:42 am

As promised Neil, more than happy to support Ovalart! Very Happy

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