Irish Mini Owners Club

Definitely give Martin a shout, he has some wicked kit in his place, and can do full colour printing on vinyl not just your vinyl cut out standard stuff, right up to car wraps and such..

Good guy and a mini nut has a R1 powered mini cabrio..

Paul

take the fan belt off these are known to stick to the pulleys like glue on old stored engines, and make it look like the lump is ceased, when in fact its the belt locking it all up, or maybe a ceased up water pump. Diesel in bores is a good plan, if the no fanbelt has no joy go with diesel in the bo...

200 Europe.

Loadsss in Japan, they had British Racing Green Metallic in Japan as well.

Paul

if your pelnum is filling with fuel you have it piped wrong. one from the top of the reg goes to plenum one below on the reg goes to the carb fuel in and one at bottom of reg is return and one on side on its own is fuel from tank. You need to see 4psi at the outlet side to carb, any more and needs a...

Hi

post a picture up of your brake master cylinder and we can tell you what you have and also a picture of the brake connections on the bulkhead underneath the master cylinder.

Paul

Probably is diagonal split about that year on the car, I would convert it to front rear split, diagonal split is nuts it one side of master cylinder circuit fails you get to spin if you hit the brakes!! better than nothing I supposed but front rear you have some brakes in a straight line! Convert to...

A Turbo HIF is not the same as a NA one, the turbo one has extra drillings these can be replicated outside the carb, the Turbo HIF also has a clamp on the top to stop the oil plunger undoing under boost. Extra cooling of number 4 pot essential. Some Turbo's didnt have the harder crank just down to p...

Crank is also different (stronger) Head is different has larger water jacket (for cooling) gearbox casing gears and diff are different and the bearings for the drop gear is bigger too. Radiator, need high capacity and also better to have modified to allow an auxiliary radiator as well. Oil cooler Mp...

Posted here as didnt want to corrupt the official announcement post. Considering coming over with my 13 year old Daughter in my ERA doing the run and catching up with some friends along the way in Cork and have family in Donegal and Northern Ireland so thinking of coming Fishguard Rosslare later Thu...

Condolences at this time, sad and untimely loss. Rest in Peace
Paul

Original subframe heavily modified and standard length too.. Is a bit tight in there though engine is low and far back.

Whole car was built by a MSA Scruitineer and Marshall who since building this now has a business building and maintaining Race/Rally/Hillclimbers track day cars etc. I don't have the engine spec to hand but it runs very high compression but had to run on pump fuel so used to run on Optimax. It would...

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I have a black Japanese spec ERA turbo and also a Green UK spec one which requires restoration(for sale if anyone is interested) I also have a vauxhall powered nutty rally machine it has a vauxhall engine in it, the engine was build for a nova rally car which went backwards into a stone wall so it w...

Hi saw the van with the V8 in at IMM2004 with hugggeee wheels on the back, not really much mini in it more a ladder chassis with a van shell grafted over. My friend Ian (SPAG) built what he called the roughest V8 mini deathtrap in the world, V8 transverse on princess gearbox in mini subframe, the en...

see www.eraturbo.co.uk for the proper turbo mini.

You will need to fit a bulkhead box, and decent brakes, standard engine is just under 100HP and just under 100ib/ft of torque...

I prefer my ERA Turbo to the Vauxhall engined 165hp at wheels nutter rally machine I have here.

Paul

Hi Woody remember it well. Yes Rogers RSP, we went up with Roger, (Chas, Tim, Foster Charlton, Pete, Andy - AKA the Inno Boys) and Kay from Miniworld. Great long distance mini run, met up with a mate of Fosters overnighting at Newcastle who had a Mk1 S low mileage Barn find which had been lightly re...

Goes well enough yes, puts out 100BHP and 98ft/ib of torque so enough to have a little fun, all with the A/C on Paul Kellys been out in it a couple of times once in the Uk and once in Holland.

Paul

Hi

Has been at MITP 4 or 5 years, not this year been sat in corner of workshop over a year now just didnt get it out to play this year at all, well apart from a couple of blasts with the trade plates on. At MITP would have been with Mini Bandits and RSP Cooper Register and Inno Coopers.

Paul

IMM2008 Holland

Glamis Castle 2009

Can't recall being ever out in the snow with it.

I know he was telling me about the trailer yesterday. Any pictures about of it? there is a tiny one in a mag I got here but only postage stamp sized. MTM would be great but my ERA runs with about inch and half ground clearance at the front as it still has the japanese numberplate box on the front, u...

Shame to reck a 1300GT they are becoming really collectable now. If you are going to use it for mini purposes as i did way back in the day 1987-1990 when you could get hold of them for £50 as MOT failures. Engine, 11 stud block not cooper S spec though has no tappet plates on the rear head same as m...

Hi Not sure where you post hellos here, so feel free to move it, Shay who has the Red ERA said I should join, I sold it to him a couple of years ago, I have another couple myself including a Black Japanese Spec one and one of the last UK spec ones you can see my black one on the front page of www.er...