this is such an open ended question.

You can have a nice tight 1098 as opposed to a tired and worn out 1098. You can have a nicely worked 1098 or a stock as a rock 1098.

You can have a 1098 with a well tuned carb, you can have a 1098 with an oversized or undersized carb....geez the list goes on, and every different scenario will give a driver a different opinion!

So there!

A mate of une has a breathed over 1098 bored 60 thou with the head well ported and a mild street cam and he has no worries keeping up to a 1275 in a cooper s (don't know if that one is stock but) and it only looses out above 100mp/h round the corners there is nothing between them and the 1098 is dry suspension and the cooper is hyrdo and both are running yokohama A008's

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the mullet is back

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I love the mullet and just can't part with it!

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1100+60, HIF44, RE13 Cam, Deplex Cam Chain, Doc Sncr 4snc Remote Box, Standed 202 Heads and new Exhaust Valves Double springs

Was smokey
Wife loves it since we have put the Box, Cam and new Exhaust Valves..
Hydro
She's Happy I'm Happy

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Having owned a few of both (modified, stock and knackered) I'd take an 1100 over a 998 any day Much more driveable with the extra torque. I've never had an 1100 break on me, they just get smoky and the oil pressure drops off a bit.

My van has a 1098 + 40 thou, 12G295 head, Wade 104 cam, Pulsar D4R85 Dizzy, 1.5"SU, LCB and 1.75" exhaust. I have no problem keeping up with stockish 1275's. Just spent last weekend slotting in a reco gearbox with 3.44 diff.
Looking forward to fitting twin SU's with appropriate needles and putting it on a dyno.

Main reasons I stuck with the 1100 instead of upgrading to 1275 were:
- no need for disks to keep it legal.
- less people in the 1100 class of the Hay Motorkhana and Hay's Heroes!

Cheers.

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Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

okay so after some time, and after owning/driving a couple of non stock 1100's i can say i like em.. but not the stock ones, they won't rev!

i'd say as a minimum, a ported head with bigger valves, xtractors + zaust and a 1+1/2" carb plus full engine balancing and they'll be smooth and beefy as.

i drove a stock 1275 and it was beautiful!
and my gf's 1310cc mini goes very well indeed, and munches hills for lunch but its not as smooth as my hottie 1132cc

I like the way you remember this thread from over a year ago!

I like the torque of my 1098 BUT......since driving my kharna car (stock 998) I can appreciate what you were saying about the smoothness of a 998.

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