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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 7:57 pm
by bmcecosse
Absolutely - it's just a bodge way of getting the head on there - and saves butchering the block. I de-shrouded the valves by grinding away inside the chamber around the valves - which was fine as otherwise the CR was going to be way too high anyway. And I used the slightly shorter Cooper S exhaust valves to keep the rockers more or less horizontal - although I don't really think this was necessary - I just happened to have the valves lying around. The head seats were in a poor way anyway - and the head only cost me £5 !! But yes - a much better job is done with pockets - i have done several emgines that way - including my 998 Mini autocross car some 40 years ago, which had an S head and a 544 cam !
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:19 pm
by Cam
Blimey you were rich in those days! The oldest Mini was only 6 years old 40 years ago and the 1071 'S' was 4 years old and the 998 cooper had only been out 12 months!
Bet the parts weren't cheap!
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:41 pm
by Onne
Don't you like fantasising then Cam? Can't say I was at the unveiling of the mini... my parents were only 1 and 2 years old then
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 3:29 pm
by Cam
I was not at the unveiling of the Mini either! My parents were 10 and 8 years old then!
And yes, I DO like fantasising!
It's all you CAN do when you've got no cash!
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:12 pm
by bigginger
27 and 21 (aaaaah - it was the year they married...
) - but I was -5
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:21 pm
by TerryG
Did it suddenly get old in here?
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:23 pm
by Onne
Not us, just BMCecosse
I was -25 in '59....
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 7:56 pm
by bmcecosse
The autocross car was indeeca very early shell - rescued from a write-off and repaired very cheaply. Engine and box cam out a Wolseley also in scrap yard - it was a 998 (one of the first) , but not Cooper unit, and the scrappie didn't know that it wasn't an 850 - so we got it very cheaply - it was on a magic wand box! We scrounged and scrimped where we could - the car was 'shared' by 3 of us (all poor students) although I was the main force behind it and eventually bought the other 2 out. I towed it around on a home-made trailer behind my Morris 1000 (which was really my Mother's car - but she didn't like driving !!) which also doubled as my Rally car - and daily transport into Uni.