I have a mini. It consumes most of my spare cash, which isn't such a wonderful thing, but it provides hours of fun, either driving it or maintaining it. If you have a mini you should join the mini-list, its very social and very useful!
I live in Auckland and am a member of the Mini Car Club of Auckland. If you are in Auckland you should join, or at least come along to a meeting. Non members, and non Mini Owners are welcome to come along to any club meeting. We meet at 7:30pm on the first Tuesday of every month, except January. The current clubrooms are the Northern Sports Car Club rooms in the Mt Richmond Domain in Otahuhu.
Technical Articles |
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My Mini |
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Nippondenso Alternator Conversion An electronic voltage regulator for the mini instruments Faulty Mini Sport Alloy 4 Pot Calipers The Standard Mini Differential and it's weaknesses New Zealand suppliers of parts and services How to pull a flywheel, including a useful modification to the Sykes Picavant flywheel puller |
Some miscelaneous Pictures, including the Taupo speed event, Patrick's VTEC clubman and much more |
My new KAD calipers and vented discs |
I'm also interested in computer controlled engine managment. I'm planning to build an ignition computer for my mini to control timing advance. I plan to use a design by Tim Drury as a basis. It uses a 68HC11 microcontroller and I plan to extend it to moniter Manifold Absolute Pressure, Throttle Position, maybe a knock sensor, and also include some security features.
I am now making some progress. I have purchased a crank shaft position sensor. Read more about it, including a picture of Dave Theen's setup.
The Tim Drury article used to be available from a link off the diy_efi homepage, I believe their copy is available again. Reproduced here without permission, all the software, postscript schematics and html files in a a handy zip file