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One for Mini lovers, (Ted)
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
I love the Minilite wheels even if they are replicas also the Webber ? carbs - my 'S' had a Madadash with equal sized Audi sourced rev counter to match the 120 mph 'S' Speedo.
While I am at it, I had fly off handrake, works negative camber front lower suspension arms with competetion displacers plus a Koni front damper kit, rear suspension was 1/4 deg toe out plus negative camber at the rear, engine was only 1340 cc standard EN40B crank with twin 1.5" Strombergs with inlet Trumpets. Hepolite Racing pistons, 731 Camshaft, Mangoletsi exhuast with
Y piece, straight through silencer. Wheels were in the first instance Dunlop Alloys shod with Michelin XAS tyres wheels later changed to Wolfrace Rims - seats were a copy Recaro style with extended brackets. Also 13 row oil cooler plus the right hand tank of course held 11 galls in total, I also fitted the larger Vauxhall Cresta Brake Servo.
That was my favourite Cooper S DJC323E written of within weeks when I sold it to a lad in Sheffield - happy days - for all that tuning a modern family car has better performance but it was in 1970.
SteveD CB500K0:
When I was a young electronics engineer in Bracknell (1980s), my boss had a 1275GT with all sorts of “Stage†stuff.
It was like a go-cart but good for surprising the (then) go-faster foreign cars (whilst looking up at their door mirrors as you zoomed away).
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Laverda Dave:
That's a lovely car, all credit to builder/restorer. Mini's have become as expensive as Fast Ford's these days.
I never owned a mini but my brother (who is 6’4â€) bought a brand new Mini Racing in the 80’s. I drove it a couple of times and it was great fun, just like a Go-Kart. I'd love to have one but they are out of my league now :(
K2-K6:
A very tidy mini there.
Always thought a Kawasaki Z 1300 six would make a really good power unit in one of these.
A differential designed to mount on original output shaft and you'd have a compact installation, six cylinder twin cam, sequential gearboxed mini special ;D
The sound would certainly confuse casual observers, 130 bhp too :)
Laverdaroo:
It must be the weather,? I bobbed over from Radstock’s MOT gaff to Fowlups in Brizzle to collect some exhaust studs I’d ordered and there was a chap there in an Ariel Atom looking thing that was all matt black and ‘quite naughty’ looking.
It had twin Hiyabusa motors in a V configuration in the back. Sounded ace but my phone had gone flat and couldn’t take any piccies. Paddle shift, big dash all full of digital this n that, looked proper factory too. Bet it went well
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