I know a lot of people put honda vtec and swift gti motors in mini's but I'm a great believer in keeping original brand parts. Here's a guy who knows how to get more power out of a rover powered mini.

http://reocities.com/MotorCity/factory/2760/Viku2.html

Funny he says he didnt have to cut the bulk head to fit it in , it must be a huge squeeze in there.

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Imagine cops pulling you over in your Rover mini, opening the bonnet and seeing Rover rocker covers............"hmmm.... must be original engine"

Didn't Matt Reid do this already? Please spill the beans Matt...

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Jeez that's a blast from the past. That website is 13 years old.

There was another one, Spag's Doris. He took a fairly low tech approach.

http://www.spagweb.com/v8mini/

Tim

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Matt Reid fitted a Leyland P76 4.4L V8 onto an austin gearbox and installed that into his speedway mini (he also turboed it).

Here's that yellow mini http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RlktUKNJq0
Heres a north south Rover 3.5L v8 in a mini, mid mounted RWD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iK4dy74ibY
I use to have a massive list of links for V8 minis but a computer crash lost it all, a few different worded searches on youtube come up with a good number and varaities.

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