Todays Project - What did you do today?

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(11-22-2012, 09:07 PM)Rickabilly Wrote:

(11-22-2012, 06:05 PM)Mayhem Wrote: You have to love a mini - small, light, low to the ground and a wheel at each corner, making them very stable.

Rick - that link I posted gives some specs on the V8 engine Nissan will be using.

Thanks Darren, I didn't realise that was a link, but of course it was.

I started out with an MG Midget, the very first Race engine I ever built, all my mates were raving about their minis so I went out and got one, only to sell it a few weeks later, the Midget was just so much better to use in every respect, handling, braking and especially running about on summer evenings, with the Newcastle Knights cheerleaders balanced in the back as we paraded around the field at half time, but essentially the same engine, from 1997 through to 2001 I specialised in BMC A and B series Race engines, even billet machining cylinder heads from stock and a foray into a reproduction B series twin cam head copied from the MGA twin cam, Ahh the good ole days.

Rick

Hi
Rick
I remember using the Longman alloy 8 port head
As well as the BMC cast iron 8 porter
I was involved with the development of the Cosworth SCA engine (on top of a mini gear box using Jack Knight gear sets)
This was the fore runner to the famous BDA series of engines
We used to fit Janspeed turbo conversions on to B series engines giving good reliable power
Any info on your cylinder heads would be great
John