Basically as i was driving down the main straight towards the Snetterton gates when the engine was playing up, i could hear the electric fan running overtime and the digital temp guage was reading 77 degrees, so as i change down and stop at the main gate, pay for the ticket, and the engine stalled, so i looked over to my temp guage and it was then reading 134 degrees
so the reason why it stalled was because the pistons expanded in the chambers :x so got out, the bloke there helped push it off to one side, and i whipped the front off, to be greeted by loads and loads of rust water all over the engine, and steam was comming out of the rad cap, and the rocker cover 
i got my mat out of the car, and undid the rad cap and there was nothing but steam, the rad had gone and dumped all the water out of the engine :x then i took the rocker box off completely, and i'm not joking, the oil was boiling like kettle water on the rocker posts. for the next two hours i let that bugger cool down, and wandered off into Snett with a large 5 ltr bottle to fill up with water. i came back to the car, poured the water in the rad, looked underneath, and it was leaking, that' when i knew the rad had it. :roll: so with the other x ltrs of water i doused the engine completley, i then phoned the RAC...
once i spoke to them, they said a patrol man would be out in 2 1/2 hours time to 'inspect' the mini, eventhough i told them that it's got to be trailered home. :roll: so he came, and went, he phoned HQ up and told them what the deal was, and i had to wait another 1 1/4 hours, and this turned up;
Spoke to the recovery chap who was very polite, and was very carefull with the car, due to it being very low
And then once it was loaded up, we then took the epic ten mile journey back to Thetford :P to inspect what damage lied beneath the surface...
but i am very shocked indeed, after enduring the same temperature of over twice the boiling point of water, for such a small engine with no water jacket, i thought it was knackered, especially when the pistons expanded in the chambers 
so here's what happened;
