Morris Minor Owners Club

Yes, ital block is a fine idea but not seen one for 10 years down here. Maestro blocks are cheap. lots of them, suitable for RWD and also A+

les wrote:Sorry--reading your earlier post you mentioned you had all the engine bits!

...except the block yes

Will be recovering the car from it's resting place this weekend so the project begins!

Someone has done the subaru axle swap before!

http://morrisminorowners.co.uk/index.ph ... picid=2402

On a van but the idea is not original then, but practical.

What block have you got at the moment? I haven't! Well I have a 948 and 1098 but they are not really suitable as small bore. The mini engines were all small bore, one overbored 850 with 998 +60 thou pistons, one 998 with +60 thou. So looking for a Maestro 1275 block, A+ with all the improvements th...

...but this time I'm going for a 16V K1100 head conversion. 8 port heads make EFI easy and it obviously is going to outflow any modified 5 port head by some margin and only cost me £75. http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m502/Petersmscpics/TMprojectfiles0011.jpg http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/...

http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m502/Petersmscpics/TurboforMiniProject2.jpg I had done a small bore turbo, this is the old 12G295 race head I cut for it along size the first stage turbo I will be using on the car. second stage will be a GT1749. Compound turbocharging is the best way to get a br...

OK, moving onto the other part I have been collecting then as there is some interest and no one has stoned me yet for posting modded minor stuff... So I will be using a charge cooler once again. I don't pay silly money for pace CC's, so I build my own based around 1.9TDi VW cores. Of course you need...

Digging around for some pictures of the rear beam while I wait for mine to turn up. http://www.japanautoteile.de/parts/files/pics/144112.jpg http://www.japanautoteile.de/parts/files/pics/144112_01.jpg There! Most IRS have massive subframes, this is tiny! The diff has it's own mounting subframe, but ...

Thanks again for the encouragement! So I have gone a little further. The Supra box is silly money and quite large, so I have identified the best low cost option that looks narrow enough to fit without chopping is the BMW Getrag 5 speeds, cheap as chips, lots of ratios to take from other boxes and na...

Sounds fantastic! It sounds like a good idea to go for the dry sump, it does seem a bit extravagant to have timing gear and a jack-shaft just to drive the standard oil pump. That will eradicate timing chain noise too (although you could have used a belt conversion i suppose). Backplate swap would b...

Thanks for all the helpful suggestions and encouragement! It sounds like a lot of money, but I've been collecting parts for the minis for years so have a lot of these things bought over time for that ultimate mini project, then really decided that a MM or a Healy Sprite is a much better basis as the...

Thanks, spares for the LT77 are thin on the ground, having just rebuilt one for another V8 and quite heavy and not that strong, I just wasted one with a 200hp efi V8. Good lateral thinking though! It is difficult to get to those power levels with the A but there are at least three 300bhp turbo A ser...

Hello from Cornwall! Been so long since I posted, had to reregister. OK, having exploded my XXXth mini gearbox, I have decided to create a modern day "Miller Minor" by using a new RWD A series engine in my laid up to be restored 53 2 door split. I don't want to cut it up to fit anything mo...