Mini Cooper - Restoration (P3)

Hi dear Mini fans, Happy New Year 2009 and for you that celebrates coming Chinese New Year, I would like to wish you and family Happy Chinese New Year, the year of the Ox will bring your many happiness and prosperity. In my last posting, I shared with you on the dismantling of the Mini to clear the old engine and dashboard. I was pretty much involved personally to clean the engine compartment, clear the rust and repaint it with anti-rust. Yes, this efforts have taken me almost 3 weeks to prepare the engine compartment for the new engine. In the process, I even done some welding on the key structure of the Mini to clear the rust and strengthen the engine compartment.

With a complete reconditioned engine compartment, Ah Ping, the key mechanic for my mini restoration project @ Ah Sun workshop start assembling the clean and serviced 1.3 Mini Cooper engine. This has taken him a week or so to ensure all parts are properly install without faulty.

With the major engine parts installed well into the Mini Cooper body shell (which is still very much rusty and in bad shape), I started my work to redesign the engine compartment to something more modern and functional. Many accessories and engine apparatus were purchased and modified to fit into the now clean and good conditions 1.3cc engine.

Wah La! the outcome of hardwork, we have now a revive and energize Mini Cooper ready for more restoration and transformation to something breathtaking.

After 3 full months of cleaning, reconditioning, welding, installing, redesigning, this how the Mini look likes;

Its nothing yet compare what you see on the final product of my Mini Cooper S7 that I posted in my first introduction, huh! 

In my next posting, I will share with you the first street run of this Mini and how it has manage to attract many peoples' interest when I open the bonnet.

Until then, See Yeah!