i saw i mighty boy recently with that sort of camber front and rear. It looked absolutely stupid on the road. Each to their own.

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Dog Food! Most kids like it more than Broccoli.

Put some trim on the innocent flares mine work with 10 x 6" revos a few rivets will do it.


Put ebay alloy rad in ... Pinhole leak

Tidied up engine bay wiring moving relays & fuses around . Looking clean.

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PrOuDlY aSkInG qUeStIoNs FoR uR aMuEsMeNt

bought a new project to be daily!
Morris 1100!

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You're so square
Baby I don't care

Sent my mini to the panel shop

Pulled the head off my motor with carter_gt
Interesting things done by the previous owner

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77 mini sunshine: the slow build continues
http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=70699

Driven it 10km or so, and it hasn't marked its spot, yet...

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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.

Thanks, I am just going to put u with mine for a while... see if it seals itself its only a drop. so nothing to worry about, no different than what it was doing before I pulled the motor out.. Just annoying I suppose...........

Fitted a horn button, Horn now works, Added lots more sound proofing, Mrs said it was a bit loud.. Super quiet at the rear, but still a bit loud up front. Any ideas?? its running KN filters. Contemplating fitting an original Cooper S Filter box, but not sure if they will fit on a twin HS4 1.5" Carbs....

I must be getting old, 5 speed box, and lots of sound proofing

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Back in the late 60s I persuaded a Cooper S airbox to fit on a pair of HS4s, I think I modified some HS2 trumpets to fit the carbs.
No idea how well it flowed, I sold the car soon after.

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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.

Cut out a bunch of rust and welded in some new metal on the 1100 project!

Progress is good!

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You're so square
Baby I don't care

Lifted the R1 engine off it's pallet and put it somewhere safe. Put castors on the pallet and stuck it under the spare shell, now it is mobile again. Missus is happy as the pallet is gone, the engine and the spare shell is moved out of the way.

Win/win really.

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"Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you'll suck forever" Brian Wilson

The BMC Australia rally team modified two metal donut filter cases to fit on twin HS4's.
It looked odd but probably worked. You would need the elbows off the HS4 with the oval hole where they go into the filter case.

An old fella who does a lot of mini work locally reckons he's figured out what makes them leak and fixes them. The spring doesn't have enough tension in it, so he takes a few mm out of the spring - the spring has a join in it where one end screws into the other. He just unscrews it, cuts the end off and screws it back together. Obviously you cut the open end, not the special screw in end

He showed me how to do it, reckons he's done a heap and they never come back to him.

Simon there are 4 seals that I know of:
#1. Cheap red one sold by Minispares etc, yes it has a weak spring. But the geometry of the lip is wrong, it is way shallower than the others below.
#2. GACO competition red one- looks and feels the same as the old (good) red seals we got here years ago (which MS say it is).
#3. Rover SPI black seal. These have a good spring and the lip seems slightly deeper than 2.
#4. Payen red seal, currently sold by Kc and included in their gasket set. it looks and feels much like the #2 GACO seal above but is not branded GACO.

#1 noname brand seal has a reputation in UK for their springs coming off on fitment. I had one in my 1360, it did about 9000 miles then started to leak a bit. So I replaced it (spring was still intact) with a GACO. This seal leaked from day 1, I still don't know why, the seal lip seems worn even though it's only done about 500km.
I have just replaced it with a Payen, so far so good.

I have used #3 (Rover) seals on a few rebuilds and never had one leak.

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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.

arrived home after the Alpine Tour 3pm left home 1100am friday

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65 panel van Sprog
73 panel van Iggy

Bolted the head on the 1380 stroker block I'm rebuilding, stood it on its oil pump end and filled the water jacket up with 1/2.5 mix of molasses/water. The block has a fair bit of rust in there even though it's had the welch plugs out, been degreased and gurneyed twice, which got all the loose stuff out.

I'll leave it in for a week or 2, hose it out and repeat once or twice.

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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.