Hi folks,
I thought that it' about time I filled you in on the Porsche powered Minor today, or project Norm as I like to call it (the car is called Norm) so far.
Before I start, here is the basic outline of what I am doing (or attempting) here. I have a 1970 Mirros minor 2 door saloon that has seen better days. The engine has gone boof, and you can kick the floor out of it. Also I have a 1984 Porsche 924 that has corroded sills and wing bottoms. Rather than scrap both the cars I have decided to cut the floor from the Porsche and weld it into the minor and them fit the 1984cc engine (that is slightly tweaked) and transaxle to the minor. I aim to do this while keeping the minor as standard looking as possible. The suspension is being uprated but kept at original ride height, the porshe hubs and brakes will be fitted and the orginal minor wheels will have the stud holes plugged and re-drilled to fit the porsche hubs, and they will also get banded (made wider) so I can fit wider tyres. When I get to the body work I will be fitting fiberglass wings (front and rear) to reduce weight (standard minor only weighs 600kg), and the car will be painted in an original Morris Minor colour. Probably old english white. The interior will also be kept as standard as possible with the only obvious changes being a rev counter and oil pressure gauge. I will even modify and use the original Speedo. The fuel tank will have to be relocated into the boot as the transaxle needs to go where the tank is. I will also be installing a N2O system for that extra bit of welly when want it.
I didn't really touch the Minor shell today, that is stripped of everything except the axles (so I can move it if I need to) and glass (so I dont break it
). This is how he lookes at the mo. (excuse the pics they were done with my phone)
I have spent most of today Stripping the interior out of the donor Porsche and I have to say, that thing is very well built. Seats, carpet, center console, drivers door and bonnet are out/off and after much swearing at the dashboard, (can't figure for the life of me how you get it out) I gave up on attempting to get that out. Most of the wiring loom that I need from inside the car is draped across the passenger floor. I ned to get that dash out to make sure I have all i need before I cut spare wires from the loom (how annoying would that be) and fed it through the bulkhead to the engine bay ready for removal with the lump. Have already had a bit of a headache with the wiring already as some of the dash lights will be operated from the porsche wiring loom (rev counter, oil pressure light & gauge) and some is being run from the minor wiring loom (temp and fuel gauge). I have also stripped down the speedo head from the porsche ready to put the internals into a minor speedo head. I'm now off to read my Porsche manual to find out how that bloody dash comes out. I will follow this up as things progress. In the meantime heres a before and after photo from today.
Project Norm 
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