wheeler dealers - Edd China goodbye.....

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wheeler dealers - Edd China goodbye.....

If you want projects check this out - 26 episodes and counting. If it takes much longer, they'll be dumping the lump and going electric.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hCPODjJO7s

I've watched a reasonable chunk of Project Bracket. If it ever turns a wheel in anger I'll be surprised mainly because the slightest ding will lead to so much custom fab work. They never take the easy route, everything is custom fabricated from metal. The packaging is so insane at front end that a small shunt would lead to 100s hours of work.

It's an interesting watch but it has the feel of a never ending work of obsession than a track car.
 
I've watched a reasonable chunk of Project Bracket. If it ever turns a wheel in anger I'll be surprised mainly because the slightest ding will lead to so much custom fab work. They never take the easy route, everything is custom fabricated from metal. The packaging is so insane at front end that a small shunt would lead to 100s hours of work.

It's an interesting watch but it has the feel of a never ending work of obsession than a track car.

The bonnet release cap is a great example. WTF was that all about when a carefully routed bowden cable would work just fine.

The heater intake will fill with mud and the heater itself could have gone into the back of the car.
 
The bonnet release cap is a great example. WTF was that all about when a carefully routed bowden cable would work just fine.

The heater intake will fill with mud and the heater itself could have gone into the back of the car.

The whole bonnet is an example, I know they set themselves some rules at the start and i seem to recall using the original metal work was one But by the time you've cut and butchered it about to make the double opening beast they currently have surely you might as well have got a plastic clamshell which will be commercially available given the history of minis in competition and attached it with some quick release pins.

It would also have been lighter...and given them more room given their chronic packaging issues.

It's very much a "because we can" project rather than something with defined end goal. Amazing men a shed project but also barking mad with it.
 
Battery post under bonnet is fine but there's enough space in the boot for another one. No need to clog the bonnet space.

Plastic flip fronts always wobble and crack so the tin version was a better option. The lekky lift is a nice "men is sheds" touch.

The pipe clips under the floor got a bit(?) silly when P clips and rivnuts work just fine. Exhaust is a work of art and really the only possible option.
 
It was that which made me wonder why the battery post had not been put in the boot. Mini's normally have the battery in the back.

The workmanship is stunning but they do seem to have taken the long way around on some of it.
 
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Battery had to go under the seat. No space in the boot. The big positive cable already went to the front so the contact post made sense. But with the acute lack of under bonnet space, a cable running back to a power post in the boot would have been easy enough.
 
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