drmini in aust wrote:
blue_deluxe wrote:
If you want extra weight to play with, get a rover mini.
They're round nose and will be a hell of a lot easier to get a big engine into as they came out standard with sound deadening and other luxuries.
Plus you wont be hacking the nose off a car thats becoming increasingly uncommon.
But, there is way less room under the bonnet than with any Clubby??
(which is why more Starlets get put in Clubbies than in roundies).
Isn't there also a problem with putting Hondas in a RHD Mini- where the steering box fouls the transmission? That's why they lengthen the front (and spoil its looks).
Yeah, and the gearbox is on the right (when driving rhd) so theres driveshafts and everything else in the way of the steering.
But there is a subframe mob (Allspeed) in the uk that has got a subframe to fit a roundy without an extension. But it requires rather pricey shortened extractors, that would flow worse than stock.
I looked into it a few years ago, and i think someone on this forum has one of their frames, and it cost him more and still requires compliancing with an engineer over here.
These are some of the reasons why starlets are more common over here. And using vtec is generally illegal fun. As vtec kicks in around 6000 rpm, so in 3rd youll be well over the 100k mark, and in 2nd youll be pushing it pretty fine.
Whereas boost kicks in at 2500-3000 rpm and feels like a boot up the arse to the car. Which is rarely boring.
. From a 1965 Australian brochure , morris mini minor , 1390 lb , morris de luxe , 1435 lb , cooper s , 1463 lb , mini.matic , 1488 lb . From a 1970 Australian brochure , mini 1100 standard , 1390 lb , mini k , 1437 lb , cooper s 1576 lb , mini.matic , 1491 lb (how did the cooper s gain 100 plus lb in 5 years ?) . The clubman brochures don't list the kerbside weight .
