....and worth about 3HP or so over the original HS2.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Haha.

Thats great 3HP plus the 8HP i have over the 998 means i could have 11HP that i didn't have this morning.

Would i need to change anything else (on the engine) to fit and run this apart from general tuning etc..??? (obviously after making sure it is in good working condition).

What should i be looking at in terms of reconditioning this carby, both in parts needed and aproximate price to replace them???

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Tim
Dusk Blue
1964 850

Ok, time for a new Brain teaser for you (well mabe not for some).

Another part out of my box of tricks i recieved.
Any ideas on what its out of, or how i can tell what its from..
I couldn't see any markings on it, but i don't know what i'm looking for.

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Tim
Dusk Blue
1964 850

Although I do a lot of Dynamo to Alternator conversions on Minis quite regularly it is not really necessary unless you are running accessories the car was not originally produced with. As far as dynamos go they will happily run as negative or positive Earth as long as they are polarized to suit the way battery is hooked up prior to starting engine.
If it ain't F**stuffer don't fix it.

The Cam shaft.
Looking at it like that it looks like a rusty old spider drive Cam out of a 1275 probably 1100S engine. What you can look at is the face of the threaded end to see is there are any numbers stamped on the end. If it has it would be a re ground profile. if you give us any numbers we will tell you what profile it is ground to if any. Anything is possible with things of that age.
defiantly not a throw away item it could be worth a few dollars as they are not getting easy to get providing the rust is not too deep.

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1275 Morris 1100S/MG Midget/1275LS cam, it looks like.
The only other spider drive ones used here were the 998 and 1098 automatics, but they only had 3/8" wide lobes.

If the rust is deep on the bearing journals you can still get -.010" cam bearings. Just grind the 3 journals .010" undersize to suit.
Trouble is, once you do this you are locked into using this cam, others won't fit (unless you grind them too).

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

well i had a good look, and the threadded end no. is 402.

The rust is just surface, nothing serious at all. probably come off with steel wool

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Tim
Dusk Blue
1964 850

So Does that help identify it??

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Tim
Dusk Blue
1964 850

Well I looked on the Wade, Camtech, & Waggott sites (the latter had no cam numbers at all) and no joy. 402 doesn't ring a bell to me.
I would go get it reground to a grind that works- then you know wtf it is.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Oh well. thats a bit of an uninteresting end to that mystery.

I'll have to go down and search thru the boxes of stuff for todays new educational mystery.

Thanks "Dr"

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Tim
Dusk Blue
1964 850

Well this is not so much of a mystery. just a discovery.

I am guessing that this is the standard radiator, correct??



It is painted the same colour as the engine, so i guess that it was reused after the engine swap then swapped it to a different one for an unknown reason.
So do you think its worth restoring it and putting it back in. They are becoming reasonably rare now i would assume. We have a radiator repair place we use at work, so i'm sure it wouldn't be too much of a big deal to fix it. Depends what was wrong i guess.

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Tim
Dusk Blue
1964 850

Clubman GT also used the spider drive cam

The first and only time i will ever get one up on the doc me thinks



I was at mates and he had a cam there and it from memory has 402 on the end of it. Didnt mean anything to him or me.

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SOME Clubby GTs had spider drive, many (most?) had the Mk2S motor with pin drive cam so I ignored GTs.
You could also say the 1275 Moke had it too.. I can't list em all...

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

haha, yeah your right Doc some had them not all.

they started with the pin drive (ie they had cooper s motors) they then changed to spider drive cam. Not sure when they changed over, but my GT (car 400ish had the spider which surprised me when it was pulled down). So a few hundred with pins and the rest with spider drives (probably about 800ish spider drive cars 1200ish total- my car number).

I wouldnt have a clue about mokes

Brenton

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Brenton,
Pin drive 1275 pumps are obsolete, you still cannot get new Cooper S oil pumps from UK from the usual places.
Spider drive is pretty well obsolete now too, you can't buy new spiders in UK or here (OK GT m, yeah I know APT in USA sells some).
Dunno how long before the splined oil pump is NLA too, the automatic spline pumps seem to be rocking horse dung already in UK.
[shameless plug here]-
New kid on the block (from 1980) is slot drive pumps, if you want to run a 1275 Metro one in a spider cam see my spider drive adaptor sticky in the `mods' forum.
http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39787
Also it can be used to convert a pin drive cam to slot drive.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Its an early radiator. The top hose inlet to the radiator is spaced further forward than the later types. No different really to the later radiators unless you are after something particular, and like you said, no harder to fix.

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