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[JetBLICK]

cov

[alexcrosse]

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

where abouts the dassett hills? thats my domain. He in fenny or avon dasset or somin? what colour is it?


105@7k is good huh! southams rollers r reliable too, they dont lie.

[JetBLICK]

If you type in 977ARX on google u'll get loads about it, its a genuine ex-works rally car from the 60's i believe.

Anyways, saw Pete today, i forgot to take a photo as i was kinda a bit gobsmacked... it looked something like this (see shoddy diagram).. No word of a lie, a perfectly straight line from 3000rpm (didn't notice the power figure) up to 105bhp at 7000rpm. But what was just as impressive was the torque curve, 70ft/lbs from 3000 rpm up to roughly just over 80ft/lbs available from 5000.



well happy can't wait even more now, just 2 weeks left

Ta, Dan

Edited by JetBLICK, 29 November 2007 - 03:34 PM.

[samwell]

70lb at 3k is sweet from a 1l, that thing should really pull. Will sound tasty up high

[mad4mins]

wow thats some power!

what gearing is he running in it dan?

[JetBLICK]

forgot to ask... have a feeling he has a fairly low (comparitively) final drive, tho he does use ST s/c gear ratios and a limited slip diff. I asked him what he takes it up to going up the box and he said only about 6000, so i'd imagine its quite long legged, maybe something like a 3.4?

[mad4mins]

sooooo if your gonna run your 4.1's then your power will kick in earlyer and smooth out earlyer..

correct??

[JetBLICK]

3.9, so yea, more torque gets to the wheels and it should make it all a bit free-er and smoother. Went for the 3.9 (3.6 +1.08 ratio droppers) over the 4.1 because i'm thinkin the much improved power and torque of this engine would just rinse a 4.1. The main reason tho was for more suitable gearing. I could theoretically with the clubman gear ratios, get over 70 in second gear but also 60 at 7000rpm, with the 3.9 now. Unfortunately because of the 1:1 ratio i dont actually drop many rpms in 4th compared to the 4.1, probly only a couple of hundred rpm (it use to be 5000)

Straight cut drops at 5000rpm down the motorway, woop! should be fun

[tedmcedd]

i wish i knoew what you were all talking about.... but it does sound good......
lol

i bought david vizards book, tuning the A-series engine.... maybe i should read that!!

i have a 1098 engine for the bean i want to rebuild with a 1275 head and twin carbs. although i dont really know much about engines!! lol

Ed

[JetBLICK]

Check it... found this.. awsome 135bhp at the crank, 110 at the wheels!

http://www.minimania...08/ArticleV.cfm

[samwell]

shame he didn't do any of it himself. Show us what you can do without and open chequebook. Is the long term plan to go 16v or 7port with this, or will you stick with the convetional 1071 engine layout.

Sam

[JetBLICK]

Teaser

[Bungle]

shouldn't that be turned 90 degrees and moved to the right

[mini93]

cant be long now till its back in the mini! i take it unis finished for xmas now so we can expect more progress

[JetBLICK]

bungle - yea preferably - mite work a bit better ... however nt too sure how effective it would be just yet seein as there is nothing inside it.

Keen eye'd will notice the lack of a crank and timing gear.... I picked up the block and gear casing from bromsgrove engine services today (many thanks to them they do top work, and was even went in on a saturday so i could pick it up early ) I just put the block on top of the casing to make it look pretty

mini 93 - uni's over finally! Lots of progress soon.. tho starting tomorrow i will be in the garage pretty much all day solid, so will only be on t'interweb briefly... not like at uni when im logged on pretty much all day even when im out it stays on

Gotta repair the blasted radius arm pins first, for MOT, then the engine will go together very quickly

Still waiting for the hardened layshafts to come into stock at minispares, and gotta get the bits off dogmatix that he owe me... that chap has a memory like a sieve Then i'll ave everythin

woop woop

Edited by JetBLICK, 15 December 2007 - 08:19 PM.