The comments about the injection engines requiring less maintenance than say a non injected mini are (I think as an owner of one): not entirely true.

They should still have regular oil and filter changes, belt tension checked, cooling system checked and all the other usual who-ha, the only two differences are that the distributor doesn't need playing with and there's no carb to tune.

what kinda money would you have to fork out for a half cut?

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'63 850/1100 + more cooper goodies

Ask Josh from Mini Imports (Ringwood), he regularly gets in front cuts from the UK, so should be able to give you a price and a couple of options based on your requirements.

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1970 Mini Deluxe - 1275, Weber, Clive 346 cam, MS 4-pot slotted discs, Megajolt ignition Now with new improved Mambas... almost on the road
1966 Van with Traveller rear seat conversion
2008 Prado GXL
All in various states of repair...

Actually, 90% of front cuts in this country are sourced from Japan, something we might not be seeing for a little while given the countries situation, and Josh doesn't have any on order at the moment so its only what's in stock thats available.

That's a real shame as most of the stuff out of Japan is really low km's and pretty rust free. Stupid DOTARS... Still someone else's loss will be someone else's gain.

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1970 Mini Deluxe - 1275, Weber, Clive 346 cam, MS 4-pot slotted discs, Megajolt ignition Now with new improved Mambas... almost on the road
1966 Van with Traveller rear seat conversion
2008 Prado GXL
All in various states of repair...

if you get lucky there are other cars that used the same engines (in various states of tune.)

The engine I have ready for my mini came out of an Austin Something? (I cant remember what exactly) and is rated at 72hp from memory.

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That'll be an Austin Metro.
The one you want of any is the MG Metro: it had 75hp (same as a cooper s) but from only a single carb.

the injected engines were mini only.

the money u spend on the conversion would pay for premium gas for 3 yrs...

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Here is my 1.3 auto injection motor i put in my moke the1/2 cut cost me $3000 plus i spent another $800 on the Auto



Made this frame so we could test it

This is it in my moke

My favourite shortie to date

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Baby I don't care

x2... thats awesome.

+1

so does one ride this with a milk crate or just all out chariot style?

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one van, one mini s, one knitted cardigan

You only took the engine out because you had trouble getting it over the pits, didn't you?

[color=blue My mate got video of me driving it and yes sitting on a milk crate with a hocky strap for a seat belt I'll see if he can put up the link. ][/color]