Got a dud 1100 at the moment its running on 3 cylinders the back story is in 2004 i started restoring a deluxe with a front end of a mini k (engine electrics etc) the car got on the road september 13th 2006
after driving for several months in November (i think) on schoolies coming back from Lorne i was loosing so much oil into the clutch housing that i could keep any grip on the clutch up hill and therefore engine came out and bearing replaced. made the stupid decision not to regrind the crank and what do you know 6 months later i experienced similiar problems.
After new years this year i had a little over heat with a lying temp guage i drove the boiling thing 100+ ks to a party and found again i had a slight oil leak onto my clutch but continued to drive it, i blamed this new leak on bad cooling which i has since sorted out. In the past few weeks ive found that my tuning is very badly out but with how busy ive been i kept putting it off. that is untill my mate followed me home the other night and told me i was shooting small flames.
i re timed and checked the spark plugs to find that one was black. after checking rockers and adjusting properly and way off to be closed more i found i had 0 compression on cylinder 2. if i put a little oil in the compression jumped to 2 or 3 psi for a second basically bounced the needle.
ive decided to go a 1275 with an sc12 bolt on basically because it sounds solid. the 1275 is out of a morris 1100s and i dropped it down to the local mini mob (not naming business names as im unsure on the rules) anyway after running through the possibilities on this engine the price seemed to be increasing rapidly. the guy there has known me for a while now as ive been a customer for some time and has offered me a deal
Now i have picked up A fully restored MG metro turbo engine already built with gear box all fully reco and lowered compression. he wants to keep the turbo as its not to reliable and i plan to supercharge anyway. so the plan is to talk to dad so i can borrow his ute again, go pick it up and then find out the compression so i can have a talk to ben about a sc12 kit and what compression rates to go for. thats the stories so far ill put some old pics up of the car in the past couple of years and continue with the project. thanks
yeah ill be looking after this engine alot more and keeping it in good nick. cant wait!!!! picking up the engine either tuesday or thursday.
