No hand brake or that so the GF does not take it out for a spin

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No hand brake...... NO Brakes!




NO FLOOR!!

Cost us 100quid, then you know the story..... spent 600 quid on fixin it!

This is English Mk 2, note clubby style lights and sliding windows, also back screen is bigger than all Aus cars.

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Sorry for the Hijack Darken Mini, but heres two more of the GT

Big Block!


Install!

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IS this one of your old Darlings from the UK

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Yes Gafmo, as a young (22) year old I built this motor in 1983 from a series of Vizard articles in CCC (Cars and Cars Conversions) Howley cam, 45 Weber, 74mm Omega pistons and lightened / balanced rods (I was a technical / engineering apprentice at the time!)
Aldon did the head, I used to go and visit them on a sat morning and talk to Alan and Don, (Al-Don) Don Loghlin built the dizzy while I watched him on the 'Sun' timing unit.
Vizard built a couple of motors for the text of his book, his daughter Samantha used to run the car at the drags! Mine ran low fifteens, hers was in the high 13's I think, no turbo!
Aaaah happy days !

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Jeez Graham, you could've lightened those rods a bit more! Or is that a `before' pic..

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Innocenti rods Graham? Looks like them because of the bit of casting across the rod's 'H' section. So you ran a large journal crank too?

Look like Inno rods to me too.
Same early belt drive kit I've got.
BTW you can get Kevlar belts for them now, but only on MM's site. Everybody else has the Chinese ones, that feel loose compared to the Pirelli originals.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Yes TK, big journal crank, i think it was out of an MG 1300 sedan, we never got many of the EN16 small journal cranks in the UK like those that seem quite common here. The only small journal tended to be the S ones and quite rare.

The rods were from the MG, yes they appear to be the Inno type, beleive it or not Kev, I took heaps of them! see the big slot in the cap, I milled that out, they were solid! also turned stacks from the circumference of the big end. I spent ages balancing the buggers end for end on a balance in the metalurgy lab at work!

Gee it was a sweet motor! Sold it to a young bloke who put it in his GT also, then later he came back and bought my GT, never found out if the motor and car got back together?

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