I have decided to get rid of some of my accumulated crap so that I can fit my Cooper S in a garage instead of parking it in the grass and one of the things that must go is a Austin Montego.
The Montego is basically shagged but it does have one good feature, it has a 1275 A+ engine. But the downside is that underneath the 1275 A+ is a pressed metal sump.
Alongside the 1275 A+ is a Volkswagen 4 speed gearbox like the early VW Golf used. Between the gearbox and the gearstick are the vaguest linkages ever invented. It has the same amount of slack in neutral as it does in 1, 2, 3, 4 and reverse.

So the reality is that the car is stuffed, the gearbox is useless but if you want a 1275 A+ for a Morris Minor or a Spridget this could be the car for you.

Just move it down the back and throw a tarp over it Mike...they'll be worth a lot of money one day

Full marks for wanting to get the Cooper inside mate...start stripping her back...great project

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I was hoping that it would be worth big money today.

Stand by for more forsales from Goulburn. If the Montego doesn't go the Cooper S might.

Mike
I am interested in it for a spridget purpose - where do we g from here ???

Mike

I suppose the first thing is to find out if a Spridget flywheel can be made to fit the Montego crank. The Montego uses a weird flywheel and clutch setup. The Pressure plate bolts to the crank and the flywheel bolts to the pressure plate.

It has a Lucas electronic dizzy and a HIF44 carby.
It runs but has not been on the road for a long time.

no, that crank is specific to that car, it is totally different to the mini & also totally different to the spridget too

no good to anyone really unless it`s going back into a montego

sorry, been there & looked at that route before



But i`ll have the con rods & cyl head tho

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

So you can make a BMW motorcycle head fit an A series but you can't make a Spridget flywheel fit a Montego crank?
What sort of LazyGoodForNothingSmartArseKnowItAllBackYardMiniMechanic are you?

sounds like a pudding stirer ! haha

How much do you want for said beast? Could you put a pic of it up?

Doogie

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Selling the Cooper - Mike, surely not! (I am intrested BTW )

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morris 1100,,, you should know me better than that by now i can make almost anything fit almost anything else. nothing is too difficult, & the imposible just takes a little longer

It`s just that the montego/maestro cranks have a very much longer/thicker snout/flange where the flywheel faces up, but there`s not enough meat behind it to simply machine it back to make it line up with the spridget set up. it`s just not worth the effort to try such a conversion

Both the Bimmer Twinky cyl head conversion & the turbo alloy V8 conversions are pretty easy in comparison

Have you got the montego/maestro inlet manifold still??? still a pic of it up here for everyone to have a laugh at will you??? stuipd backards arse-about things they are, no wonder British Leyland went down hill, producing stuff like that makes it look like they wanted to close the doors

& i am serious about the con rods & cyl head, send them up to me & i`ll send you a drivers side engine steady braket for your 1100

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

MY 1300 made 45odd BHP with one of those manifolds sticking out of the bonett!

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speed costs....how fast do you want to go...

That manifold (I've seen it) looks a bit like a Chev 4 (~1926), but much worse....
regressive design.....

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No doc, not a great design

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speed costs....how fast do you want to go...

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