Put a downdraft in yesterday.

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Current: 1970 Mini K 2014 Focus ST
Past: 93 Rover, 64 850, 97 Rover, 66 Deluxe, 66 Moke
81 Austin Estate, 2006 R53MCS, 66 Deluxe, 1978 Clubbie
2014 Land Rover Defender 90

Looks sweet. I'm keen to hear how it goes.

What is your plans with the bonnet Danny?

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

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It fits really well with no bonnet mods.
I can even squeeze a ramflo air filter on it.

going from a 40mm DCOE to a 44 IDF has made a big difference down low. Its got a bit more torque which i was after initially as i can fit a longer manifold.

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Current: 1970 Mini K 2014 Focus ST
Past: 93 Rover, 64 850, 97 Rover, 66 Deluxe, 66 Moke
81 Austin Estate, 2006 R53MCS, 66 Deluxe, 1978 Clubbie
2014 Land Rover Defender 90

is it a more cleverly designed carb, or just a better match?

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I don't know enough about Carbies to give an answer about the design of the carbs.
The moke ran really well with the 40DCOE, it had get up and go from 2000 rpm to 6000rpm
The IDF gives me more torque and down low if feels like it pulls better.
I will post a picture of the air filter when it arrives tomorrow. It will be a very tight fit if not touching the bonnet.

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Current: 1970 Mini K 2014 Focus ST
Past: 93 Rover, 64 850, 97 Rover, 66 Deluxe, 66 Moke
81 Austin Estate, 2006 R53MCS, 66 Deluxe, 1978 Clubbie
2014 Land Rover Defender 90

+1 for that. I was thinking of putting one on the van.

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1963 Morris 850 Smoke Grey
1963 Morris 850 Shadow Blue
1965 Morris Mini Smooth Van
1966 Morris Mini Van
1969 Morris Mini Deluxe Resto
5/72 Clubman Gt

I haven't seen my Mini since about June, after plans for a paint touch up and fixing the electrical shorts turned into a bare metal respray and complete rewire.

So I looked at this picture and made 'vroom' noises!

In Batak, ngong, ngooongngng ...
In Catalan, rum, rumm
In Czech, brmmm brmmm
In Danish, vrum vrum, brum brum, nøn nøn
In Dutch, broem, vroem
In English, vroom vroom, broom broom
In Finnish, vruum vruum, bruum bruum, prööm prööm (spoken)
In French, vroum vroum
In German, brumm brumm, wrumm wrumm
In Italian, brum brum
In Hungarian, brum brumm
In Korean, bureung bureung 부릉부릉
In Polish, brym brym, brum brum
In Portuguese, vruum vruum
In Romanian, vrum vrum
In Spanish, run run
In Swedish, brum brum
In Thai bruen bruen บรึ๊น บรึ๊น
In Turkish, vrum vrum (truck), han han (car)
In Vietnamese, bờ rừm

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Nick

http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=86675

Mr Orange, what do all those little push buttons next to the instruments do?

I like the carbon panel.

M

All that it needs is wings and 4 boeing 747 engines put on the wings

Looks like a plane cockpit

Thanks, that's exactly the look I was after! (I've got a weird sense of humour).

It's a speedhut set, the buttons are for setting the warning lights and for recall of peak values. And to retract the landing gear (or something). The dial is the dimmer.

Threaded my sump plug!

New topic created in mini chat...

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All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

Happened yesterday... but I think single handedly killed my mini.. Was on way back from Canberra and cruising at about 90km/h, started to smell burning oil then got some engine rattle... died on the side of the road and just would not start again, plenty of water in the head and cylinders :\ . - minimal just a head gasket - most total engine rebuild. It's stuck at a farm near Tarago til I can go pick it up. Poor thing

Thanks for all the help from PhillB and XC9000 on ausmini who were with me at the time and helped out as much as they could

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Poor fella!

If you can get it towed back to Canberra, it can stay in my yard till we work it out. I think we must have jinxed it with our conversation at the show

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Thanks for your offer Mick

I think I'm going to pick it up Wednesday on a trailer and lug it back to the gong. Will probably sit for a long time before I can afford to pay someone to look at it and fix it! Ha, yeah it was probably listening to us talking about it. Spiteful little thing!

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