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rampage101
 Post subject: Engine & Gearbox Combo
PostPosted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 12:18 pm 
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Just wandering, noticed on another forum a person doing up an old '64 MG. Now that engine looks suspicously like an A-series, I'm gonna take a stab and say its a close relative (A or B series) but anyway, whats the chances of getting a Mini gearbox to fit to the MG engine, coz they are 1.8L or so, would give the Mini some more serious torque.

Or am I completly out of my mind?
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MG Midget or Austin Healey Sprite. A series, RWD.

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drmini in aust
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MG Midget/AH Sprite will fit if you change the crank and machine the rear bearing cap.. I did one years ago.
MGB etc, no- forget it. Can't rev 'em hard anyway- the cranks bust...... and 5 bearing one is no better.

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Christoph
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The B series engine looks like an A series thats been put in a photocopier and enlarged... brittish ingenuity! they even kept the 5 ports from memory.
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The 803cc A series and the 1500cc B series were designed around the same time, so similar design. Their granpappy was the 1.2L A40 Devon/Somerset motor. :wink:

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