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Author:  miniboy1962 [ Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:50 pm ]
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Is this the Lotus head they used on minis?

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/escort-lotus-twi ... dZViewItem

Or am i way off..
Author:  cush [ Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:55 pm ]
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i beleive they grafted the block and head on the mini gearbox...
Author:  sports850 [ Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:06 pm ]
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Way off I'm affraid , as cush said it was the practice at one stage to graft a full ford 4 cylinder engine onto a mini gearbox so you've possibly seen pictures of that head in a mini race car but it wasn't on a mini motor .
Author:  Blokeinamoke [ Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:07 pm ]
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That head goes on a Ford Cortina 1500/1600. Can see how that would go on an A-series block
Author:  peterw [ Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:43 pm ]
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No way a Lotus head will go on an A series. The Ford block is much longer. I have seen the Lotus engine on a highly modified Mini gearbox. Can't see how the box would take the torque of that engine though.

I have seen BMW K1 motor bike twin cam head put on a Mini block.

Check out
http://www.miniman.com.au/bmw.htm

Pete
Author:  TheMiniMan [ Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:43 pm ]
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I think it was "Manx" engineering in England (amongst many others) who used to sell the conversion kit to fit the ford engine onto the mini gearbox & yes, they did fit the Lotus head to the ford motor & onto the mini gearbox

Back in the day it was pretty dam good thing, just threy`re getting very hard to find these days & with other more simple & more efficient & less costly twin cam 16v cyl head conversions around, well, it almost makes the lotus conversion old hat.

The BMW Kseries motorbike twin cam 16valve cyl head conversion is the one to have at the moment :-)
Author:  cush [ Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:32 pm ]
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so what you're all saying is ...


Cush was right.

;)

TheMiniMan wrote:
The BMW Kseries motorbike twin cam 16valve cyl head conversion is the one to have at the moment :-)


where is it then? :P
Author:  TheMiniMan [ Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:14 pm ]
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which one? :-)
Author:  cush [ Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:17 pm ]
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TheMiniMan wrote:
which one? :-)


the finished one.. :lol:
Author:  david rosenthal [ Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:17 pm ]
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Eric Smith grafted a B.D.A. twin cam head onto a "A" series eng. block that was cast and machined with liners. The eng block was made by Gordon Allen. The eng cap was 1300c.c and produced 170 h.p and reved to 10,000 r.p.m.
Re. Mini the racing story page150.
Bill Needham did a 1000 c.c mini eng with ford twin cam head in 1967.
Re. page158
When I was working for Frazer engineering in 1974 I grafted a 1600 B.D.A onto a mini g/box. We machined a billet steel crank to fit ford eng and mate with drop gears. the eng was fitted into a mini street/ race car owned by Colin Trengrove. The mini boxes could not take the power until the eng was dry sumped and the box ran gear oil. Even then he blew up plenty.
The last I knew of the eng. Greg McEwin was going to fit into one of his minis.
Author:  Rookiepilot [ Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:52 pm ]
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I've posted this before, but here it is again. Think I've given myself a heads up.
Car is apparently hidden in a shed somewhere in Vic
Image
Author:  cush [ Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:44 am ]
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i was about to post that very picture... :)


david rosenthal wrote:
Re. Mini the racing story page150.


a great book, that one..
Author:  66S [ Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:07 am ]
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I've just returned from the 50th anniversary of Teretonga racetrack jn Southland, NZ. There was a Mini there with a 1500 Lotus grafted to a Mini gearbox. I have some photos of it on my camera and I will download them tomorrow.

Al
Author:  TheMiniMan [ Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:30 am ]
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Cush, i have 2 of them now & the 2nd one is in this Moke & currently at the exhaust place having the turbo manifold made-->


Image
Author:  cush [ Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:22 pm ]
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:)

where's the one in my 850?
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