merry xmas

[melissachels]

Merry Christmas everyone, hope you all have a good time




And yes still working on terrano :bow

 

[terrano bob]

Merry Christmas everyone, hope you all have a good time




And yes still working on terrano :bow

merry Christmas mate :beer :thumbs

 

[jims-terrano]

Hey all the best and long time since we've heard from you, don't leave it long before you're back:thumb2

 

[solarman216]

High Mel, have a good one, thinking of you, Rick

 

[macabethiel]

Merrry Christmas & have a Great New Year

Merry Christmas !!

Just had a "Deja Vous" moment and remembered that back on Christmas Day 1979 I was re-building the cylinder block on my 1967 Mini Cooper S having picked it up on Christmas Eve from the local Machine Shop Wild Engineering (now gone) who had done a rebore and new camshaft bearings.

I spent the morning re-building the whole engine block and after lunch started with assembly of gearbox and bell housing. By bedtime I had the whole engine unit ready to drop back into the engine bay.

Boxing Day saw me back on the road but it took most of the day as it had Hardy Spicer front drive shaft joints and they were tricky to bolt up when you are lying on your back under the vehicle. To add to the difficulty it also had a long centre branch exhuast system with a Y piece connector for the front pipe.

A short blast up the road confirmed that she was in A1 running order with what seemed back then as brilliant accelaration ! She had around 100 bhp at the flywheel with 0-60 time of just 9 seconds. It had the notorious 649 cam fitted fully gas flower cylinder head done by Willy Green Engineering with twin 1.5 inch Stromberg Carbs kit (instead of the usual SU's) by Alexander Conversions.

Happy Days !!

 

[AlexD333]

Ah nice to hear :clap

Merry Christmas and keep us posted with your motor

 

[solarman216]

Merry Christmas !!

Just had a "Deja Vous" moment and remembered that back on Christmas Day 1979 I was re-building the cylinder block on my 1967 Mini Cooper S having picked it up on Christmas Eve from the local Machine Shop Wild Engineering (now gone) who had done a rebore and new camshaft bearings.

I spent the morning re-building the whole engine block and after lunch started with assembly of gearbox and bell housing. By bedtime I had the whole engine unit ready to drop back into the engine bay.

Boxing Day saw me back on the road but it took most of the day as it had Hardy Spicer front drive shaft joints and they were tricky to bolt up when you are lying on your back under the vehicle. To add to the difficulty it also had a long centre branch exhuast system with a Y piece connector for the front pipe.

A short blast up the road confirmed that she was in A1 running order with what seemed back then as brilliant accelaration ! She had around 100 bhp at the flywheel with 0-60 time of just 9 seconds. It had the notorious 649 cam fitted fully gas flower cylinder head done by Willy Green Engineering with twin 1.5 inch Stromberg Carbs kit (instead of the usual SU's) by Alexander Conversions.

Happy Days !!

Sounds like a real beast, those were the days of tinkering, not so easy now with emissions and all the electronics, merry xmas Rick

 

[macabethiel]

Tinkering

Sounds like a real beast, those were the days of tinkering, not so easy now with emissions and all the electronics, merry xmas Rick

You are right it was easy to home tune your car in those days even things like altering differential ratios were relatively easy on the old Mini.

I bought a book written by Clive Trickey called something like "Tuning a Mini" and it showed you how to gas flow and polish your own cylinder head with advice on how much you could skim off your cylinder head to raise the compression ratio.

My motor ran on Leaded 5 star petrol only as it had a compression ratio of around 11:1 and below 3,000 rpm it was really lumpy (due to overskimmed flywheel) & the race camshaft but when it got to 3,500 rpm it just pushed you back into your seat all the way to 6,000 rpm. Its no surprise that despite having an extra strong centre crank bearing clamp it eventually started to hammer the centre mainshaft bearings out.

Its a shame that the A series engines only had 3 crank bearings as a 5 bearing crank like the small Simca 1000 made them almost unburstable.

 

[glen]

Merry christmas from Glen & family

 

[perelaar]

Merry Christmas to all!
Having a wonderful time, cleaning the underside of the car and checking for damage after getting properly stuck yesterday.
The damn thing actually sank into the ground until it could go no further. The tractor pulling me out created "waves" in the ground while pulling me out, never seen that.
Treats me right for not listening to advice.