Jaguar XK100 Engine in a Classic Mini?
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Retro_Jim said:
That's a lot of work! Also 85mm pistons in the 120E block is the absolute maximum with many not lasting very long so he must have found a decent casting or knew how to get his hands on more!
He was an engineering legend I remember my dad having an Allen crank in one of his race engines and it was a big deal to have one of the great man’s crankshafts in your engine.Those twin engined minis must have been tricky to drive ?
rallycross said:
Retro_Jim said:
That's a lot of work! Also 85mm pistons in the 120E block is the absolute maximum with many not lasting very long so he must have found a decent casting or knew how to get his hands on more!
He was an engineering legend I remember my dad having an Allen crank in one of his race engines and it was a big deal to have one of the great man’s crankshafts in your engine.Those twin engined minis must have been tricky to drive ?
I’ve posted this before, I met a garage owner in Wolverhampton in 2020called Niel who has some interesting creations, XJ6 Pick up etc. When he realised I had an interest in old/unusual cars he took me into an old Victorian outbuilding and showed me his Mini pickup (1968/9). It was fitted with an A series Twin Cam engine. The story went that he knew a scrap merchant who was tasked by Austin to dispose of unwanted metals for destruction in the 1970s. He had seen the engine and sold it to Niel instead of destroying it.
I think he said it was about 100bhp.
I think he said it was about 100bhp.
I believe that senior member Low drag of this parish owns a prototype XK 4 cylinder engine.
My good friend has a sales brochure of the still born XK100 . Having access to any manufacturers development department scrap bin often yields interesting stuff.
My MK1 cavalier benefitted from several parts from the scrap shelves at the Millbrook test site.
My good friend has a sales brochure of the still born XK100 . Having access to any manufacturers development department scrap bin often yields interesting stuff.
My MK1 cavalier benefitted from several parts from the scrap shelves at the Millbrook test site.
Project Binkie put the entire engine, transmission and suspension of a Toyota Celica GT-4 into a Mini, with the objective of keeping the exterior appearance unchanged. No Carbs sticking out through the grille there!
It took ten years and nearly forty videos on Youtube but they got therhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hCPODjJO7s&list=PLGSOZAHg1yQHU1tc_3Y5MTQg1qjtxA_nqe:
It took ten years and nearly forty videos on Youtube but they got therhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hCPODjJO7s&list=PLGSOZAHg1yQHU1tc_3Y5MTQg1qjtxA_nqe:
There's not much new - I once had a passenger ride in my friend's classic Mini Type R conversion which was mapped to 240bhp. It was scary fast but tame tootling about.
You would never guess that the front end had been extended 100mm to make it all fit - used a Metro front subbie and 4 pots discs brakes and ran on 14" wheels. Diff was a custom made item and chattered like mad.
Not this one but exactly the same principle. Outwardly save for large wheels and arches the unitiated would never know.
You would never guess that the front end had been extended 100mm to make it all fit - used a Metro front subbie and 4 pots discs brakes and ran on 14" wheels. Diff was a custom made item and chattered like mad.
Not this one but exactly the same principle. Outwardly save for large wheels and arches the unitiated would never know.
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