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61 Morris Minor Street Rod
This is going to be a long build cause it's for my pops, and I have to fit him in between paying customers! Been working on it for about a year on and off. Since I build a lot of british cars and he always wanted a hotrod, I figured why not build him a slammed Morris Minor with some grunt. So I picked this one up in Delaware last Thanksgiving and surprised him with it. Goal is to have a clean, slammed, and decently fast car with modern bells and whistles. So I pulled the 948cc motor out that made a whopping 34hp, and replaced it with a wrecked 95 Camaro fuel injected 3.4 V6. Power to weight should be around 300hp, 1800lbs.
Now the technical stuff, pulled the old drivetrain, put in a 86 toyota pickup truck frame with disc brakes. Body dropped it, all new floors, 3.4 Camaro Engine and 4l60e trans are in, ford 8.8 rear end narrowed 9 inches from a 94 exploder, vw scricco griffen drag radiator, narrowed front control arms 2 inches, and went from little 13x4 wheels to 15x5 front, 16x8 rear. Air suspension is finally all fabricated. Now just a bunch.... a bunch of metal fabrication, and tweaking everything to get it off to paint hopefully within the next month or two.
Here is a little RENDERING I did a long time ago of the paint scheme/stance, etc.
Here is where it all started. Big brown potato being towed home.
Everyone thinks it looks like a beetle.... it's not a damn beetle!
That was how low I got it static, but then I decided to bag it to get it on the ground.
Wrecked Camaro I picked up for $700, pulled everything I needed and sadly sold it for scrap for $500.
The new meats!
Engine/trans coming out.
Custom control arms made up by MMW.
Then the fun started with doing the air suspension, and getting rid of all the old crap.
More trimming.
All buttoned up, top plates fabricated, air lines ran, just need to weld some bump stops in there at some point.
Yeaaaaa, wheels tuck!
But ended up having to cut stock inner fenders out, used trailer fenders instead. Gained me about 3" all around.
Little bit bigger rear end. A bit overkill, but bought it for $100, and it had the 3.55 gears in it I wanted. Plus same polt pattern as the toyota front discs, and 31 spline axles.
Some rear rake. Need to widen rear fenders 3 inches, even after narrowing axle 9 inches.
The stance, aired out it will touch the chin spoiler on the ground and oil pan.
Anyway, won't be to much development the next few weeks, but in feb it will kick back up again when the baby starts daycare, and wife goes back to work! I got to get it running/driving by march when I start a $20k Mini project for a customer. Hope it's your guys bag, if you haven't realized by the other thread, I like weird cars.
Now the technical stuff, pulled the old drivetrain, put in a 86 toyota pickup truck frame with disc brakes. Body dropped it, all new floors, 3.4 Camaro Engine and 4l60e trans are in, ford 8.8 rear end narrowed 9 inches from a 94 exploder, vw scricco griffen drag radiator, narrowed front control arms 2 inches, and went from little 13x4 wheels to 15x5 front, 16x8 rear. Air suspension is finally all fabricated. Now just a bunch.... a bunch of metal fabrication, and tweaking everything to get it off to paint hopefully within the next month or two.
Here is a little RENDERING I did a long time ago of the paint scheme/stance, etc.
Here is where it all started. Big brown potato being towed home.
Everyone thinks it looks like a beetle.... it's not a damn beetle!
That was how low I got it static, but then I decided to bag it to get it on the ground.
Wrecked Camaro I picked up for $700, pulled everything I needed and sadly sold it for scrap for $500.
The new meats!
Engine/trans coming out.
Custom control arms made up by MMW.
Then the fun started with doing the air suspension, and getting rid of all the old crap.
More trimming.
All buttoned up, top plates fabricated, air lines ran, just need to weld some bump stops in there at some point.
Yeaaaaa, wheels tuck!
But ended up having to cut stock inner fenders out, used trailer fenders instead. Gained me about 3" all around.
Little bit bigger rear end. A bit overkill, but bought it for $100, and it had the 3.55 gears in it I wanted. Plus same polt pattern as the toyota front discs, and 31 spline axles.
Some rear rake. Need to widen rear fenders 3 inches, even after narrowing axle 9 inches.
The stance, aired out it will touch the chin spoiler on the ground and oil pan.
Anyway, won't be to much development the next few weeks, but in feb it will kick back up again when the baby starts daycare, and wife goes back to work! I got to get it running/driving by march when I start a $20k Mini project for a customer. Hope it's your guys bag, if you haven't realized by the other thread, I like weird cars.
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