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Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2024 3:42 pm
by FireKraka
Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2024 9:22 pm
by Mick
is it just the pic or is the pushrod from the slave cylinder badly on the p!ss
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Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2024 10:28 pm
by Errol62
Yep, those brackets are not the best, though I ran one for ages on an m20. Usually go on the inner hole for a heavyish pedal. There is a fabricated bracket you can get that uses an EJ HK slave on the outer hole but I think it will foul the subframe leg.
Go the Mal Wood.
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Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2024 10:30 pm
by Errol62
Then again could just be the photo……
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Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2024 11:50 pm
by Blacky
Its not the photo , its on the piss but not as badly as it looks in the pic. I have lost the rubber boot off it as well so its just sitting there with a turn or 2 on the mounting bolts as it will need to come off again to fit it once it turns up
Only got a little bit done tonight as we had a committee meeting for the nationals tonight
Mounted and painted the idle air motor
, couple of nutserts in the inner guard and job done
Yep it fits
Bit of paint ready to fit tomorrow night
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Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:05 am
by Blacky
Progress report -
Fitted the idle air widget
Then bit the bullet and finished the wiring off - I have been putting this off for ages because I hate little wires but it had to be done
Before
After
Now I need to make a kick panel fit in there again and figure out how the parcel shelf is going to work and still have access to relays and computer
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Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:10 am
by Blacky
Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:37 am
by funkyscooter
With those speaker holes there's the hard way - re fab the parcel shelf, or the easy way - buy bigger speakers
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Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:17 am
by FireKraka
Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:37 pm
by Mick
Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2024 2:01 am
by Blacky
I think the MDF parcel shelf might be the answer Mick
Only got into the shed at around 3 this arvo so a short day , main project was the kick panel conundrum. I had already trimmed the stock one down so started with that and some 9mm MDF , made a piece, made it fit and replaced the push pins with nutserts
Bolted it in and realised that 9mm is not going to work so made another out of 5mm or whatever it is, much easier to form into shape
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bolted THAT in then used 9mm to box it out
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Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2024 2:04 am
by Blacky
Cut cut file sand make again etc etc etc.
Made the cover so it drops in with a pressed metal retainer on the bottom and a threaded bracket on the top
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Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2024 2:14 am
by Blacky
Then painted the inside of it satin black and covered it with leftover boot carpet
Will cover the drivers side tomorrow - and figure out how to fit the parcel shelf around it. Interesting to see how long this lasts once it’s back on the road and it gets wet every time it rains
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Last job for the day was make up drain hoses for the aerial cups so the new quarter panel doesn’t rust faster than an EK does
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Whoever made these didn’t put a whole lot of thought into them, you would think the drain would be at the bottom of the cup and would point down not out
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5/8” drain hoses reduced to 3/8” then teed together and out via a hole in the querter
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Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2024 7:16 am
by Harv
Blacky wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 2:14 am Interesting to see how long this lasts once it’s back on the road and it gets wet every time it rains.
At least your ECU install is above the flood line. The modern Minis have the body control module in that location… sitting on the floor. When the factory sunroof leaks and it gets 10mm of water on the floor, all hell breaks loose in the spitz-and-sparken department. A new body control module (at a cost of a kidney) then needs to be programmed to suit the individual chassis (programming needs a mortgage on the second kidney).
Don’t ask me how I know
Cheers,
Harv
Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2024 7:28 am
by Errol62
Nice cabinetry bloke.
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