Todays Project - What did you do today?

[doubleboost]

Great post Rick
I remember well spending a week pollishing and lightening a set of mini cooper S rocker gear
Lightening push rods and cam followers
Just to get 500 rpm without resorting to stronger valve springs
Pollish the inside of a cylinder block because it must be better than rough cast
Happy days
John

[PixMan]

Funny you mention working on a true Mini Cooper motor. A good friend of mine had a 1972 Mini Cooper that had a full-out race motor installed. It was bored and strocked to 1375cc, high rise cams, high compression, oversized valves and the whole works was lightened-up in every way imaginable other than still having a passenger seat (on the left side.)

He had taken me for a ride, and WOW was that thing fast. I think the car weighed under 1600 pounds (728kg) and the motor put out over 250HP. He took me to a local industrial park that had a small roundabout at the junction of all the roads. The fastest I'd ever been around it (marked at 25mph) in my 350HP Pontiac GTO/Holden Monaro HSV was about 40mph. He had me hanging out the window doing over 60!

Good times.

[Mayhem]

You have to love a mini - small, light, low to the ground and a wheel at each corner, making them very stable.

Rick - that link I posted gives some specs on the V8 engine Nissan will be using.

[sasquatch]

Sawing and air-nailer work today at my son's house. Got a bedroom, bathroom, and laundry room framed in.

[f350ca]

Finish the rear brake job on the jeep. Rear disks with shoes or the emergency. The shoes are about 1 1/2 wide but the drum is about 2, leaves a 1/2 inch band on the outside to rust up. Couldn't get at the adjusters, ended up pulling the rotors with a 3 arm puller then fixing the holding pins. On another note, those idiot tire pressure monitors the powers that be think we need. Every fall I have to bump the pressure up to a bone jarring 33 psi to get them to stop chiming. Tried to do it today and one of the stems pushes in, theres a fixing nut on the outside, well ones gone, couldn't fall off over the valve cap so must have never been there. Tried to steal the one off the spare, the stem turned and probably buggered the sensor.

[sasquatch]

Agreed Greg What a BIG PITA!!!

[Rickabilly]

(11-22-2012, 06:05 PM)Mayhem Wrote: You have to love a mini - small, light, low to the ground and a wheel at each corner, making them very stable.

Rick - that link I posted gives some specs on the V8 engine Nissan will be using.

Thanks Darren, I didn't realise that was a link, but of course it was.

I started out with an MG Midget, the very first Race engine I ever built, all my mates were raving about their minis so I went out and got one, only to sell it a few weeks later, the Midget was just so much better to use in every respect, handling, braking and especially running about on summer evenings, with the Newcastle Knights cheerleaders balanced in the back as we paraded around the field at half time, but essentially the same engine, from 1997 through to 2001 I specialised in BMC A and B series Race engines, even billet machining cylinder heads from stock and a foray into a reproduction B series twin cam head copied from the MGA twin cam, Ahh the good ole days.

Rick

[sasquatch]

Not much new, back at son's again today, framed out the last bedroom and closet, and built a bulkhead between two rooms.

Started snowing on the way home, and temps are dropping.

[f350ca]

Well made it about 2 miles from home and that valve stem popped loose. great start to the day. The good news was made it there and home with my furnace, pictures to follow tomorrow. Casting to start when we get a building up to house the new found treasures.

[doubleboost]

(11-22-2012, 09:07 PM)Rickabilly Wrote:

(11-22-2012, 06:05 PM)Mayhem Wrote: You have to love a mini - small, light, low to the ground and a wheel at each corner, making them very stable.

Rick - that link I posted gives some specs on the V8 engine Nissan will be using.

Thanks Darren, I didn't realise that was a link, but of course it was.

I started out with an MG Midget, the very first Race engine I ever built, all my mates were raving about their minis so I went out and got one, only to sell it a few weeks later, the Midget was just so much better to use in every respect, handling, braking and especially running about on summer evenings, with the Newcastle Knights cheerleaders balanced in the back as we paraded around the field at half time, but essentially the same engine, from 1997 through to 2001 I specialised in BMC A and B series Race engines, even billet machining cylinder heads from stock and a foray into a reproduction B series twin cam head copied from the MGA twin cam, Ahh the good ole days.

Rick

Hi
Rick
I remember using the Longman alloy 8 port head
As well as the BMC cast iron 8 porter
I was involved with the development of the Cosworth SCA engine (on top of a mini gear box using Jack Knight gear sets)
This was the fore runner to the famous BDA series of engines
We used to fit Janspeed turbo conversions on to B series engines giving good reliable power
Any info on your cylinder heads would be great
John