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Hello All, As my first Mi16 conversion, I thought i would share it with you all. I'm not quite ready to get the engine in but the car is still very much been used as my daily right now. In the next month are so the project will really kick off, once my uncle gets his Landrover Denfender 88 out of the garage my project will be well on its way. At the moment im just preparing myself for what is to come! By this i mean gathering as many parts as i can get my hands on. So here is the car in general its quite tidy, I believe there is no or little rust but i havent removed those side skirts yet. So thats the car that gets treated better than my misses! So firstly i had to source myself an engine which came and found me £200 all in and got some extra goodies but on the down side it had a cracked block due to the incorrect sized head bolt spacers. Here are the spacers he was using against the ones that should have been used. After the strip down of all the parts the crank was shot but the rest of them seemed fine. I sent the crank off to get a reground and barings to match. (i have not pictures of this) I set my heart on using carbs, and i ended up buying TB's by accident! dont ask! But here they are R1 Thottle Bodies. Quite clean really and i heard that nothing ever goes wrong with them! After the engine had been stripped, i set my sights on getting a new Block which Anthony kindly provided me with. once i recieved it i got to work on it and cleaned it down with the help from the misses it was painted the next day... here she is at work! A couple weeks down the line i had the cyclinder head redone, valves reseated and reangled. Full gasket set to fit the engine, the Linered bored out to suit the Forged pistons i recieved from someone i got off the forum (cant remeber their name) I have just got the cyclinder head back today fully built up and ready to be bolted back on the other half of the already built engine. Ignore the paint job... yes we missed bits! At the weekend i picked up some Braces for the car and stripped the paint off them ready for a paint job Next post: