Mad House Minis

Website Overhaul

Cosimo — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:42:29 +0000

Welcome to the new Mad House Minis website. You’ll notice it being refined over the next few weeks, but we wanted to roll it out with the New Year. And on that note: Happy New Year!

Yellow/Green Moke Repaint

Cosimo — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:00:09 +0000

We are doing a complete repaint and color change just like on the Portuguese Moke.. this is a Australian Moke and has larger 13″ wheels. It has lots of detail differences. It is sort of a half step from the English Moke we have done in the past to the more modern Portuguese version.

This Moke is a 1980 built in Australia. we are going to fix some minor rust. there are several dents and stress cracks from the mounting of a roll bar. This rebuilt will include detailed description of the engine and gearbox rebuild.

dent in extension by rear wheel

Grass Fed Beef

Cosimo — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:00:09 +0000

I am going to feature photos of the beef cattle I have been running this year and update future herd changes. I will soon be getting Eddie the bull. Eddie is a Hereford bull who is about 18 months old. I hope that this young lad will get his job done. I have 4 girls awaiting his arrival in early march. Of My ladies 3 are Hereford cattle and the boss cow is Gracie a Simangus cow who has a young calf by her side called Bangsey. In addition to the Herefords ..I will have Holstein steers that are bottle feed and weaned and un-weaned available for sale at all times of the year starting this spring.

eating 12-14-09

fish eye view or earache

fish eye photo of Gracie

eddie the bull

Series Land Rover Project

Cosimo — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:00:37 +0000

here you see the doner cars. We will soon have a new frame and many body panels to breath life back in to another British Classic. This time it is a series landrover. It will be a complete build form the ground up. I am fortunate to have 4 parts cars to start with. I will be adding more details soon.

William’s Moke

Cosimo — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:00:06 +0000

We are doing a complete repaint and color change on this Portuguese Moke.. This will be a real fun project with a engine upgrade in the works as well.

subframe coming together

another angle of the subframe

konis installed in the rear

engine installed on subframe

bella with engine

pedals…… and shifter

engine in in the moke at last..

master cylinders in place

Herman’s 1963

Cosimo — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:00:52 +0000

date:8-21-07
This will be a fun project. this is Herman’s (Pologround) 1963 Morris mini 850. we will be adding a lot of cool features as well as restoring the body work to its former glory. As you can see from the photos that this is a solid car with typical mini rust. It is a worst then it looks. we found quite a bit of rust in the a pillars and scuttle areas and it needs sills on both sides.

We will be installing a 1275 metro engine, a right hand tank and upgrading the brakes to cooper S spec. and replacing the rear subframe.

keep your eyes on this page for frequent updates . I will shortly be adding a few photos of the trip to collect the mini in VA.

New photos 9-6-07 sandblasting and paint removal link

new updates as of 1-3-08 we are finally working in the new shop. here are some shots of the nose being installed and the rear valance being installed. The early cars had a different rear valance support then the later type being made by heritage We lucked out that the valance was bad but the support was in good shape link

New updates with photos of freshly painted shell link

MGB suspension

Cosimo — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:00:32 +0000

Ok so today we have for you a fully redone MGB suspension. Not only did we re do the suspension but we also upgraded the carburetor. Below we have some pictures. But the image of the carburetor is before the k and n air filter was installed. This car is guaranteed quiet a better ride. I really love these MGBs i’ve been working on as of lately.

Multipoint Injection

Cosimo — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:00:26 +0000

A multipoint injection to a carburetor????? I don’t think so!!!!!!

an attempted multi point injection ended with poor results. multipoint injection cars (mpi) are computer controlled. there’s no provision for distributor or adjusting timing without the ECU. also, there’s no place to put a distributor. Note the burnt spark plug wires as well as clipped wires go into nothing. is this a bodge or what. This baby ran but just barely. she had major running problems and wouldn’t start with out eather (a starting tool). I think all of this mini bodgery is quite comical and genius. but I, myself prefer to fix these things correctly the first time. Here at madhouse, when we things its meant to stay fixed. That’s why we whe fix things right.

Pabbi’s new floor

Cosimo — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:00:16 +0000

oh geese was this a project or what. the floor was so rusted out I had to completely take the entire thing. then replace it with brand new floor panel. We had to put braces in so it would keep its shape while I redid the floor. I think I did a pretty darn good job. and I hope Pabbi is happy with this.

Targa Newfoundland mini racer

Cosimo — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:00:09 +0000

Look out betty, we’re coming for you. This year we’re building a souped up mini for the targa Newfoundland race. This will include a seven port “AKM” style race head, MED 1430 sprint engine and a full race suspension. All of this built into a fully restored 1960 body with full six point roll cage. To say it simply, our car this year is going to be beast. more pictures will be coming.

Here’s a link to the races page. http://www.targanewfoundland.com/

Her are a few shots of the shell on the rotisserie after some sandblasting to expose the seams prior to seam welding the shell to add stiffness as per the 60′s BMC rally cars.

Below is a update as of 3-28-08

Look for a lot of action on this page over the next few weeks. I have made lot of progress on this project and will have a lot of new photos to upload in the next couple of weeks.

floor pan replacment

begining of steel flip front

corner piece for the bonnet pins

bonnet fitted

underside of new flip front with beginning of inner wings

more front end

inner wings starting to take shape

forming of inner wings

flip front part way up

front angle

of floor sections

boot floor mods for fule cell

from the bottom

Bella the new guard dog..

Toe area with new lip.

toe area with lip

rod change shifter mount salvaged from clubman shell

boot area

wheel arch after seam welding

boot area seam welding

inner rear wing seam welding

seam welding on “B” piller

roll cage mount welded in

sill repair

floor

seam welded front shock area

flip front mounted

inner wing flip front captive nuts welded in

underside of fuel cell bump out of boot

fule cell mod

inside boot

Gusset for shock left side

gusset on right side of shock tower

Fule cell installed

inside boot

more boot photo

Roll Cage test Fit

snowberry white

fire wall

haze!!!

scuttle panel

left rear quarter

front view

3/4 view

side view

more beam axel

crummy lighting

rear radius arm

rear beam axel

floor shoot

rear cage and door

roll cage rear hoop and floor support

roll cage hoop

roll cage mount

rear shock mounted