Has anyone ever thought of doing or know of a rotary conversion into a Mini?? I think it would be pretty cool to see, I've always wanted to investigate into doing one...

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There's an urban legend from ten years ago that a bloke here in Langy built one.
I went to school with the kid who's dad apparently did it.
Apparently it had 400hp.
Whether it actually existed or not I don't know.

I've seen a sports sedan one for sale once.. So it's been done, good size engine I guess, would just need to be really well engineered to not completely ruin the cars handling with the heavy drive line

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After my recent purchase of an original rx3 I had the very same idea. There is a rotary mini on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp_iS_qbVdM

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I did see someone mating a 10a or one of the smaller rotaries to a FWD gearbox. I don't think it was going into a mini but was nice and compact.

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One used to race in NZ. From memory the car had been widened, but not sure of any details. Don't even know if it was FWD or RWD.

There was one that raced at Morwell hill climb back in the 80's or 90's
May be the one Meenie saw, I think it was front wheel drive and motor was
pretty much in the cabin with a Volksy or Porsche gearbox towards the front.

When I win tatts I would love to build a moke with a rear mid mount 12A (have a couple in the shed) driving through a rear transaxle, try and keep it looking stock for the ultimate sleeper

Cool as, My mate just told me there was one at a meet in eastern creek.... an orange one... heres another video anyway http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... c2sHjrv9Bc

Would be a very cool thing if it was all done properly!!

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Everyone talks about building their car, but few people do it themselves.

The one you saw at Morwell was sold and headed north to NSW, so may be the one your mate saw at Eastern Creek?. Used a VW transaxle and a 10A to keep it under 2 litre.

I have posted more photos on here so do a search

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Wow, that thing is different hey!!!

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Everyone talks about building their car, but few people do it themselves.

there was a fwd 12A one for sale several years ago, and a blue one that used to compete

I saw a thread on a rwd one with a Turbo 13b in the mini forum - www.theminiforum.co.uk. Search engine conversions -> other and you will see it. It looks like a real weapon.

i looked into it once, but in nsw VSI 6 there is this clause - The engine capacity to be used for rotary engines is the displacement of all rotors x 2.... which makes it a lot less appealing in what size you can legally get into a mini

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