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[mighty mini jack]

great mini ! could you tell me how you did your flipfornt its really good !

[Jammy]

Read the three links in his sig!

[Dan1991]

Fantastic Mini and thread. Truely awesome work gone on here. Looks just right.

[supermotolee]

by solid mounting i was talking about the sub frame my engine is also solid mounted just the same as it would be in the bike so the vibrations rattle the car a fair bit lol

it sounds like your engine is well thought out do you have any ideas what it should rev to and more importantly what revs it'l make power at?

keep up the hard work...

[JetBLICK]

thanks for the comments

it sounds like your engine is well thought out do you have any ideas what it should rev to and more importantly what revs it'l make power at?

No idea, and i dont really want to speculate either. Just ave to wait and see Powers just pub talk... as you say, its all about where the torques gonna be and the revs it'll pull, which is hard to predict...

Edited by JetBLICK, 20 November 2007 - 11:10 PM.

[BJst416]

Wow man, awesome mini, I've been following the thread for a while now, can't wait to see it finished.

I don't know if you're still using your lightened flywheel (sorry if i missed the change of set up) but can you tell us a bit more about the experience and final weight? I'm thinkinbg about having mine done since the actually light flywheels are hard to find here and expensive to bring from the states.

Cheers.

[JetBLICK]

Thanks

Do you mean the verto one which i had lightened?

It would be hard for me to compare to be perfectly honest, i did the fly at the same time i did everything else so ave no real experience of before and after. However i'm sure it helped. Theres a calculation somewhere that gives you an idea of what it'll be like. It equates the amount taken off the flywheel as a rotating mass, to how much lighter the car will feel when accelerating.

If you mean my ultralight pre-verto steel one, then i havn't tried that so i dunno either, soz.

[BJst416]

Yeah this is the one

(It's you pic and no I'm not planning to steal it lol)

Are you gonna run this one or are you getting the more sophisticated ultralight one?

I'd be thankful if you can point out where to find this calc table to get a rough idea

Thanks man.

[JetBLICK]

yea i sold that one, got an ultralight jobbie for the new motor.

I think the calculator in in vizard. Not sure tho. I'm sure if you start a topic about it on the forum some boffin will be able tell you

soz, i cant be of much help ther.

[samwell]

why does your profile still say "Engine: Its a secret " when its not really? Is there some sudden change of heart like your fed up of the 1071 and you couldn't think of anything better than a 1098:P

[Pie]

LMAO i dont think dan will be changing his mind about the 1071, not after the student loan he's poured into the project lol.

[JetBLICK]

why does your profile still say "Engine: Its a secret " when its not really? Is there some sudden change of heart like your fed up of the 1071 and you couldn't think of anything better than a 1098:P

i dunno really just put it ther as somthing random clearly my engine is not a secret

Edited by JetBLICK, 28 November 2007 - 11:07 AM.

[JetBLICK]

'ello y'all... got a little, kinda, update. It's got me excited anyways

I've been speaking to Peter Barker recently (chap who writes about all the historic rally stuff in MiniWorld) because i found out the other day that has an SW10 in his 1071 rally car 977 ARX. Pete just so happens to be the admissions tutor for my course at uni, so i sent an email asking him various questions (i could have gone into his office, but that would have involved walking ) So anyways.. he's been nice enough to bring in his power graphs from when he had it RR'd so i can go and see them tomorrow

So i'll take a pic of it and tomorrow we shud have an idea of what sort of power and torque it will make.

His cars spec is very similar to mine, tho he cannot remember the exact spec of the head, so we don't know what size the valves are. Apart from that its exactly the same the only exception being i have 1.5 ratio rockers, so mine may be a bit more pokey.

Anyways... all i know so far is his engine made 105bhp@7000rpm!!!!!!!! at SMMC's roller i assume because they do all his engine work.

Edited by JetBLICK, 28 November 2007 - 05:06 PM.

[mini93]

ooh i think i know that mini, has big decals on the side of the rosets (or what ever there called) i think he lives near dasset hills
might have also seen it at southam before

[samwell]

is it wrwick your at or coventry?