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NCA 2008 Report

Mini Mania Open House and Lawn Party
by Jerry (Siddhartha) Bradbury
What can transform a peaceful sylvan lawn in Gold Country into a carnival overnight? The annual Mini Mania Open House and Lawn Party of course! Those who were there got to see first hand all the eye candy, but for those who were not, the Mini's ranged from an electric Moke to a VTEC powered Classic, to Randy Steven's tricked out CVT to Robert Holt’s Purple Haze convertible to three full on Mini race cars: my sprint car, Jacques Andres' enduro car and Eric and Colin Herricks's rally car, and many in between.
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Race Report -USTCC

Infineon Raceway, April 11, 2008.
by Jerry (Siddhartha) Bradbury
My Mini has a new setup for this race. Speed parts from my sponsor Mini Mania have been added by my sponsor Bay Bridge Motors and USTCC sponsor Nitto has provided four brand new NT 01 tires. This will be my first official race with the US Touring Car Championship and I look forward to hitting the grid with more horsepower and quicker lap times.
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MINI Clubman Review

Published: 21st April 2008
The new MINI was launched in 2001, to much acclaim. Although bigger than the original Mini, what it lacked in rear legroom, it made up for in unusual styling and a vast array of personalisation elements, much loved by a local estate agent.

The MINI Clubman has the same raft of options but its main benefit is the extra length, which should make rear passengers happier.
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mini quick change rear end
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mini quick change rear end

    Created by: pixieracing
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May-11-2008 12:01PM jonny5   839310
May-11-2008 08:49AM pixieracing   839285
May-11-2008 07:25AM jonny5   839270
May-11-2008 03:21AM pixieracing   839247
May-10-2008 06:45PM jonny5   839211
May-10-2008 07:22AM pixieracing Edited: May-10-2008 07:30AM   839123
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jonny5
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Posted: May-11-2008 12:01PM Reply
I've been on the fence about whether to build up my Mini as FWD with a good 1275, or put a high tec motorcycle engine in the front and make it RWD (Honda ST1100 or 1300 look good so far).  Your axle got me interested.  I also have a Miata rear diff setup I could make an independent rear suspension for it, but the axle ratio's available are not good unless I want to spin the heck out of the engines.  Since I want to make it a street Mini still, I may just stick with a good FWD setup.  Sorry for bending your ear and moving off topic.  Will you have a list of items for sale, or just trickle them in one by one?

Jonny5

pixieracing
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Posted: May-11-2008 08:49AM Reply
 yes selling everyting   racing got very expensive   ie 40k per year and after 40 years I have done my thing ,  have a new project building a resort in the  bahamas   which has all  my attention .   thanks for asking .  

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Posted: May-11-2008 07:25AM Reply
I haven't been on in a while, so I may have missed some of your earlier posts.  But it looks like you are cleaning out lots of go-fast stuff.  Are you selling everything and getting out of racing or something?

Jonny5

pixieracing
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Posted: May-11-2008 03:21AM Reply
the rear end is for a tube frame mini   it used coil over penski shocks  and a four link  suspension ,   typicaly a sprite engine and a quafe  transmision   and aluminum drive shaft.    I will have pictures shortly.     as far as floor   the back end is all tubes  no floor . I did see a full body  mini converted  and they cut the  floor and tunnel out fitted a 289   ford  big as trasmision and  a quick change  the drive shaft was 16 inches .   not my kind of car but .  

jonny5
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Posted: May-10-2008 06:45PM Reply

Any pics?

You've got me curious.  What sort of suspension was in the rear to make this work?  How cut up is the back floor etc? 

Jonny5

pixieracing
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Posted: May-10-2008 07:22AM
Edited:  May-10-2008 07:30AM 		Reply

 A Winters  mini sprint quick change rear end for a  rear wheel drive mini ,  big  11 inch vented brakes  with  wildwood 4 pot  calipers, comes with  2 aluminum drive safts   3 gear ratios, which gives 6 ratios,  limited slip gear type rear drive,    hollow lightened  drive shafs   , spare set solid drive shafts,   cambered - 1.5 deg  ,  4 inch wheel stud pattern ,  unit is  in good shape  over 6,000  spent  to put together.   was in my gt5 car .  

 for sale for $2200.00   large  heavy package , need to pick up or ship by truck.

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