Speeding Along Now
Posted 12 July 2016 - 07:05 AM
Hi All,
Was looking to buy a new engine for my mini as my last has been deemed poop by local garage (dip in the block). 
Anyway, I found one on mini speed I might have went for and when I went to go back on for another look it appears they have closed the shop and calls are not being answered, does anyone know if they will be resuming business soon ?
Cheers, James
Mill Road Garage
Posted 12 July 2016 - 07:07 AM
They have gone out of business.
They had a closing down sale last weekend i believe.
Ben
Moved Into The Garage
Up Into Fourth
Posted 12 July 2016 - 08:26 AM
Uncle Cooperman, Voted Mr TMF 2011
Posted 12 July 2016 - 08:31 AM
Speeding Along Now
Posted 13 July 2016 - 06:43 AM
Ahhh 
thats awful. I had seen they were selling a 1293cc with stage 3 head, gearbox, clutch+flywheel for £2,346 which seemed a lot less than anywhere else I had looked.
A number plate was placed on top of the block of my engine and a light shone from the back of it gets under a gap between cylinders 2 and 3. They reckoned it may be cheaper or more because effective to try and source a remanufactured engine which came with some guarantees than to try and repair my current unit. Although I have seen on here that a few people do use there engines which required a block skim and turn them into short stroke engines, I'm guessing with everything though that there is a limit to how far you want to skim ?
Thanks for your comments
Moved Into The Garage
Posted 13 July 2016 - 07:16 AM
a number plate is a very well respected straight edge!
I would be checking again.
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Posted 13 July 2016 - 07:52 AM
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Posted 13 July 2016 - 07:55 AM
Moved Into The Garage
Posted 13 July 2016 - 08:14 AM
I'm not going to repeat what the other guys have said about the number plate, however;-
Ahhh
While I do understand that price is a concern to everyone, with stuff like this and companies in particular aside, can I suggest you look beyond the price. If one company is well below most others for price, being such a competitive market, you really should be asking yourself 'how and why' they can get their prices so low when all others are so much more.
The figure quoted there is not much more than the cost of the parts and machining costs, even if they did their own in house machining, it still needs to be costed in.
Mini Mad
Posted 13 July 2016 - 08:18 AM
A few years back I had a similar problem with the top face of the block being uneven due to over tightening the head bolts !
An engineer friend suggested using Engineers blue, then using fine wet & dry with a piece of plate glass that the wet & dry just wrapped around, It clearly showed the area's that were too high, then using a file to draw across it, I managed to get it fairly perfect after a lot of effort.
Moved Into The Garage
Posted 13 July 2016 - 11:49 AM
Although I have seen on here that a few people do use there engines which required a block skim and turn them into short stroke engines, I'm guessing with everything though that there is a limit to how far you want to skim ?
Thanks for your comments
A light skim of the block face will probably be all that is required........not enought usually to worry about making a short stroke block or breaking through into a water jacket.
Is your existing engine a 998 or 1275 block casting?
However rebuilding your engine is likely to uncover many other things which are best done while it is stripped down and so the cost often rises with more new parts and machining required........
Speeding Along Now
Posted 13 July 2016 - 10:35 PM
a number plate is a very well respected straight edge!
I would be checking again.
Yeah agreed I shouldn't have took that as a check, The car is home now and I will try get this checked properly.
I'm not going to repeat what the other guys have said about the number plate, however;-
Ahhh
While I do understand that price is a concern to everyone, with stuff like this and companies in particular aside, can I suggest you look beyond the price. If one company is well below most others for price, being such a competitive market, you really should be asking yourself 'how and why' they can get their prices so low when all others are so much more.
The figure quoted there is not much more than the cost of the parts and machining costs, even if they did their own in house machining, it still needs to be costed in.
Yeah that's exactly why I had't bought it yet and was still looking around to see what everything costs, didn't understand why they were 2k cheaper.
Although I have seen on here that a few people do use there engines which required a block skim and turn them into short stroke engines, I'm guessing with everything though that there is a limit to how far you want to skim ?
Thanks for your comments
A light skim of the block face will probably be all that is required........not enough usually to worry about making a short stroke block or breaking through into a water jacket.
Is your existing engine a 998 or 1275 block casting?
However rebuilding your engine is likely to uncover many other things which are best done while it is stripped down and so the cost often rises with more new parts and machining required........
How much can be skimmed off before it becomes a short stroke engine ? It's a 1275cc, 1300GT gold seal.
Uncle Cooperman, Voted Mr TMF 2011
Posted 13 July 2016 - 10:41 PM
The stroke is determined by the throw of the crankshaft, not the machining in any way of the block.
Speeding Along Now
Posted 14 July 2016 - 06:58 AM
The stroke is determined by the throw of the crankshaft, not the machining in any way of the block.
Okay, so I was thinking that if you needed to skim the block by whatever amount, if you were to use the standard parts then the pistons would rise out of the bores ever slightly and I thought that then making it a short stroke was one of the ways to salvage it ? and of course changing the crank to match the new bore height?
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