Stumbled across this thread and thought some of yous would find it interesting to look at http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... ead=113031

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Respect mine and I'll respect yours.

Wow, some people are seriously committed to the cause!

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But he's thriving and striving and hugging the turns.

I actually know someone that did the Jag engine thing. My old mate Georgie boy. He's from Runcorn, Brisbane. Bugger he did it soooo long ago and the engine has long gone

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The bitterness of poor quality (or Crappy Workmanship) remains LONG AFTER the Sweet Taste of Low Price is forgotten.

Wow, those gearbox add-on bits look pretty interesting...

They make the twinky conversion look like just swapping a carby.

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Tim
Dusk Blue
1964 850

The gearbox kits were done by Bill Quine at Manx Racing. The yellow Clubbie has a BDA fitted to a Mini gearbox using (I was told) one of the kits. Its was for sale at Mini 30 for 5k. If you bought the engine he was throwing in the car for free...

The Lotus Twink (orange Clubbie) was at the same show.

Cheers, Ian

Wow, some pretty nice looking heads there.

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Fancy doing your own conversion? This guy has the patterns and some castings for sale.

http://mk1-forum.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4946

Tim

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1951 Morris Commercial J Type Van
1955 BSA C11G
1961 Morris Mini Traveller
1969 Triumph TR6R
1977 Leyland Moke Californian

I don't understand why you'd mod a gearbox to take a different block and head?
Why not just do the whole engine / box combination?

At a guess

Firstly, im assuming the ford engines used were all N/S so there might not have been a engine/box combo.

Secondly, keeping the gearbox means you aren't changing subframe/suspension etc. (This was possibly important for racing classes?)


It's kinda like asking why put a BMW bike head on a mini block, why not put the engine/gearbox in?

In the late '60s when they were doing this there wasn't a lot of fwd engines that were any better than Mini ones.

Tim

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1951 Morris Commercial J Type Van
1955 BSA C11G
1961 Morris Mini Traveller
1969 Triumph TR6R
1977 Leyland Moke Californian

My 2c
Harley- It saves re-engineering the sub frame, drive shafts etc.
mini_mad_matt- A bit off topic but the BMW K1100 head is the only part that will fit in the mini. The block can't be mated to the mini gear box and the entire BMW setup doesn't fit in plus theirs no reverse and blah blah blah
I've started a similar (very long term) conversion with a Suzuki swift 1.3L engine onto a mini box. My reason for this is mainly the sub frame issue, it's a lighter engine and can easily make 100bhp in std form if fitted with the GTI twin cam head, comes std with more modern features, parts are cheap and so on.

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Respect mine and I'll respect yours.

why do we drive 40+ year old cars?

'cos we f*cking want to!

love the Jag motor

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Another rumour back then was you could cut the back 2 chambers off a Jag head and it could then be persuaded to fit on a 1500 Cortina block.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Just buy an XK100 head then...
http://www.jaguarpartsforsale.com/parts/Engine/Jag+XK100+prototype+cylinder+head

absolutely.... need two though, one to experiment on, and one to do for real

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