Irish Mini Owners Club

see i did miss something taut ya were bein smart. my appologies

Kenneth Murphy wrote:see i did miss something taut ya were bein smart. my appologies

That was a very funny argument!

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 was built into a mini in 1997 long before vauxhall conversions were flavour. Engine is a 1600 nova bottom end 1800 head single overhead cam straight cut box with quaife LSD twin 40 DHLA carbs engine is pretty full on petrol cant be over a month old or it wont run on it!! July 97 miniworld feature car and car and car conversion mag featured about same time... was built for tarmac rallying upto 1600 CC and got away with it for a little while till they wanted to drop it into specials category and it would have been uncompetitive in that class so became a advertising toy. I'd probably sell it if the right offer came.

Paul

any pics you could post of the Vauxhall conversion?

Kenneth, no bother, you where mearly sticking up for another forum member.

J666ERA wrote: engine is pretty full on petrol cant be over a month old or it wont run on it!!

Paul

???

what ron does it require and what compression is she running?
I am guessing that this is a well sorted engine so the folowing two quotes may be not applicable.

a webber will be happy to run badly set up, it will just drink petrol. properly set up it will return good MPG.

when a car is taken out of storage alot of people will say it'll never run on the old petrol,
but i wouldnt fancy striking a match and throw it in and see what happens..
ok it may lose the edge over years, but not run after a month??

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 probably run on older petrol but starting it on anything but fresh stuff from cold is a real pain as it wont catch.

It has about 16-20 wheels with it 13" wellers in yellow spare suspension so is a tarmac set of shocks/coilovers on set tarmac one set loose stuff.

Paul and James Kelly saw it when they were over buying Shay's Red ERA from me a couple of years ago.

Paul

woo loads of room in there compared to the red top.

now you mention it i remember an autograss mini that had to be started on one set of plugs then changed over!! i thought it was a bit bizzar.

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

I'm gonna be doing a vauxhall convertion soon. Have a 2 litre calibra I'm gonna be using as a donor car. Got a allspeed subframe and everything else. Just need to get my finger out and get on with it now.