Dattosan machi aka project NIPPER

[swiftmini]

Here is my new project car. Its a project for daily driving that i can muck around with without spending any dollar.

K10 micra ls lowest of the low prefacelift spec.







It was free and is pretty tidy with only 66000 miles on the clock.

Plans are to mot it next week. Cut the springs heavily, so its on the bump stops. Fit some banded steels (need to make some first, i need some laser cut strips of steel 3inch wide if anyone knows who can do it) and slap on the gsxr 750 bike carbs that i have sat here. Should b e about 65hp on the carbs lol

Also got buckets to go in and iam gonna strip it out as per norm

Updates coming soon

[Teggers]

Duuuude! Thought you were losing interest in projects as you had so many?! Then you pop up 2 new ones in as many weeks! Was all that just a blind?!

[swiftmini]

Nah dude got me all wrong, i just wanted a break from the constant stress and spending that i get from the gentleman, iam still working on the projects just taking my time when i can be bothered. I'll update gentleman in a bit.

[Teggers]

Aaah! I was a little confused! Doesn't take much... BTW, don't forget your stickers

This one should be interesting on carbs

[swiftmini]

Not forgotten the stickers mate. Will probably try and get them off of you on friday. Cheers dude

[swiftmini]

My 13" corsa steels which i was gonna send away for banding on friday ha ve been weighed in by my old man means i gotta find some more 4 x 100 steels before i go on holiday on saturday morning. Takes the piss if you ask me, i wanted this ready for japfest

[slider200]

yhpm regarding corsa wheels,

[swiftmini]

Well my daily driver is now sold and this little beaut will be in for mot on saturday, i must say iam not looking forward to mot at all. Dont worry its not going to same place as the gentleman, i had 3 mots booked down there but when the fooked me off with the other car i cancelled them all.

Anyways i picked up some corsa steels off of slider200^^^ although they are very rusty so i need to see how bad they really are. I need to decidee whether or not to band them my self or send them away and pay someone else. We will see.

I cant wait to be driving this car, its gonna be strange driving something so slow lol

[eloise]

im the same with the metro kev. takes some getting used to, not having power on demand lol. i find its a real calming experiance tho.

takes some serious skill to band the wheels and get airtight, or are you putting tubes in?

[swiftmini]

Yeah i wont be welding them myself, ill tack em together and then get the guy at work to weld them with the stainless set. I will also put some wurth bond and seal around the welds to seal em up just like when you split alloys apart.

As for lack of power, i cant see me keeping it for long if its really terrible. Although the mx5 is lighter than a 1000cc mini and it has an extra 13hp so with a couple mods it maybe passable. As long as its not too much slower than a corsa sri in limp mode it will be ok

First mods will be fit the buckets i have and cut the springs. Then wheels and maybe leave it at that

[eloise]

cant cut springs on mine, gonna let some gas out lol.

[swiftmini]

cant cut springs on mine, gonna let some gas out lol.

Wear googles lol tis a messy job. They look good with no gas but handle shit hehe.

Is it 998cc a series?

[eloise]

1ltr 8v k series. bit more refined than the a mate.

[Mark White]

Neil - I love how you are refering to a metro as 'Refined'

[swiftmini]

Nah he is referring to the k series as being refined lol haha

[eloise]

its more refined than the a series tho lol. how does 600bhp of t series turbo sound?





oh and mark, its not a metro mate, its a rover 100 ascot. ta very much lol.

[Mark White]

oh and mark, its not a metro mate, its a rover 100 ascot. ta very much lol.

Love it neil

[Chriscooke]

Where is the place that can band steelies mate??

[swiftmini]

Theres a guy on retrorides that does them for 50 each for 15's his username is JamesP.

on the subject of banded steels. i will be getting the standard 12's done, but doin.g it myself at work

[Chriscooke]

Cheers kev