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sitnlo62
PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 1:15 pm 
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http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/RARE-Bare-Mo ... 3a7e04fb0e

Over Priced rubbish
9F/SAY/ ....... Block with No Caps.
Even a cooper s block with no caps is a Door Stop!!!!

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sitnlo62 wrote:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/RARE-Bare-Morris-Mini-Cooper-S-1275-block-for-sale-in-Coffs-Harbour-NSW-/251222358798?pt=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item3a7e04fb0e

Over Priced rubbish
9F/SAY/ ....... Block with No Caps.
Even a cooper s block with no caps is a Door Stop!!!!

Well.. you can get NEW steel caps at a price (from APTfast.com in the states) but at $750 for a capless block, I think he's dreamin' too. :lol:

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Only a real door knob would throw away the block caps to a Cooper S engine :roll:

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just out of curiosity, how much would it roughy cost the buy the caps and have the neccessary machinging done? cheers
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just out of curiosity, how much would it roughy cost the buy the caps and have the neccessary machinging done? cheers


USD $425. + freight.
http://www.aptfast.com/ShowItem/101216% ... r%20S.aspx

Add $300? (guess) for line boring to the block here.

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Steel Cap set $450
Line bore $500?

EDIT: Yeah look it may be worth something to someone but honestly, without the MK1 head, Mk1 EN40B crank and a host of other bits, we are talking a BOATLOAD of rare parts missing (proper tappet cover with the right breather for one)....

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wowsers!!! yeah if you put it that way.......$$$ expensive door stop :shock:
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Back in 1966 I made a new steel centre cap for my 1220 out of axle steel.
It took ages but cost me nothing (I was a railways apprentice).
I didn't line bore it- I set it up in my lathe with another cap, bored it to 001" undersized, then hand scraped it true.
Not suggesting anybody would bother doing this now, just sayin'. :lol:

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You can buy caps cheaper from Swiftune $318.
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Makes it worthwhile then, not.
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If this was the last thing needed for a matching number restoration, I'm sure its price would be worth it :wink:
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Even for those that have a set of S main caps (off a destroyed block), $750.00 for a block sans caps, I want to know what drugs he is taking so I can take them too. They must be goood. :D

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willy wrote:
If this was the last thing needed for a matching number restoration, I'm sure its price would be worth it :wink:


What's the chances it would be the right number :shock:

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Panthersteve wrote:
willy wrote:
If this was the last thing needed for a matching number restoration, I'm sure its price would be worth it :wink:


What's the chances it would be the right number :shock:


About 1/ (7500 + replacement blocks) :wink:

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Bubbacluby wrote:
Panthersteve wrote:
willy wrote:
If this was the last thing needed for a matching number restoration, I'm sure its price would be worth it :wink:


What's the chances it would be the right number :shock:


About 1/ (7500 + replacement blocks) :wink:


If it is indeed the matching number then it would be cheap as chips!! (I'd also go buy the lotto too if this were the case)

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