Good evening fellow Mini & Moke lovers, distinguished members and guests, emus, cats & dogs!!
I've spent the last 4 days with my head buried in the computer doing the rounds of this magnificent forum site.
It appears I've found my piece of heaven and now wish to sip from the cup of knowledge.
These are the facts:
1. We (family) own a gal-bodied moke
2. The 1275's very tired
3. there's no-one in Darwin interested in a rebuild
4. Eastern/Southern states would love to do it for a tad under 10K, with freight and bits & pieces thrown in.
5 I've always wanted to shoe horn a late model Japanese in a mini or moke.
So I ask the pletherer of mini/moke oricles who have undertaken this exercise to enlighten me on the ins and outs of fitting the starlet motor or the honda integra free spinner.
Our forum matters would be as follows:
1. What would be the better engine choice starlet turbo or the honda integra motor
2. Front subframe modifications - I know Pubudu can make a subframe and the orange honda one is a work of art also cost to have one built.
3. Drive shafts? are they doner engine to factory mini cv's or is the late model half cut the way to go using brakes, cvs, shafts etc.....
4. Being Darwin the engineers up here aren't too interested in small jobs unless you're a multi million dollar mining or pearling company. I know I race Commodore Cup up here and heaven forgive it if you need something fabricated.
So a bit about my self. I'm a restauranteur who owns a Cooper SII, my 8yr old daughter owns the moke and she loves it to death, and I've got 2-3 (well actually about 10 (the wife has edited this transcript)) cars of which are VC Brock Commodore, 87 Highline Range Rover with a 195Kw HSV 5lt in it (that was another - no it can't be done job - boy it goes) 67 split w/screen combi and a clubsprint capri (wife's) la-la-la.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated
Cheers - The Victerian (I'm expat Melbournian)
P.S. I blame the Motorkana I did on Saturday for this. What Fun!!! - Poor Magna
