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- Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 1275 tuned Marina engine, better twin or single carbs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 986
Re: 1275 tuned Marina engine, better twin or single carbs
I'd leave as is and see how the dyno goes. If you go single, I'd go HIF44. What inlet manifold have you got? I have a 1275 Midget engine in mine and it runs an HIF44 (MG Metro carb and manifold). I also have a 1275 Midget, with the same head, LCB and straight through exhaust (Similar to the Minor) a...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:08 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Garage lights
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1529
Garage lights
Some of them, in my late father's garage, were best part of fifty years old and some, in my garage, are best part of thirty years old. They were all twin tube fluorescent units and my father's had worked well until about five or six years ago (My fluorescent units still do and only one tube has need...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:45 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How many of you can weld, and how did you learn?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3388
Re: How many of you can weld, and how did you learn?
I can use oxy acetylene and MIG. I suppose I learned from my father, who used to build steel bicycle frames (Bronze welding/brazing or silver solder). His method was often to point you in the right direction and let you find your way from there. I have his arc welder but I never made much of that, t...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 2:53 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Sir Jackie might be impressed!!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 908
Re: Sir Jackie might be impressed!!
I suppose you could call it "Air fix".
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 12:48 pm
- Forum: Mechanical
- Topic: BTA1225
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1541
BTA1225
I'm cataloging various spares I have, from various cars and find a pinion, bearing the number BTA1225. It's part of a 3.9:1 CWP, which is shown as BTA1223. Is BTA1225 the 10T pinion? I can't find any reference to this but am guessing this is the case.
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: we have a problem
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3464
Re: we have a problem
I think Reliant beat the USA to the Moon.
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:47 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Sir Jackie might be impressed!!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 908
Sir Jackie might be impressed!!
I have a book on driving, written by the great Sir Jackie Stewart, in which he outlines an exercise whereby people have to retain a tennis ball, in a bowl on the bonnet, whilst driving (I seem to recall in a figure of eight). I have also seem film of this. On Wednesday, I needed to go to get a presc...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:45 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: All accessories going smarter now
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1327
Re: All accessories going smarter now
Yes and in a short while there is an "Upgrade" and your device will no longer work, because some spiv wants to sell you a new one; it's legalised vandalism :evil: . As an example, I never download "Updates" for my printer and not just because of using non OE ink. After a certain ...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:48 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: underated 1098?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9002
Re: underated 1098?
So long as you remember that the Triumph is long stroke and make sure the crank end float is OK (Quality control could be hit and miss), they are OK (Jigsaw Racing ran them up to 8000 :o :o ). They gave more trouble in Midgets, due to poor oil cooling. I've not put a rod out in nearly forty years; ...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:46 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: underated 1098?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9002
Re: underated 1098?
So long as you remember that the Triumph is long stroke and make sure the crank end float is OK (Quality control could be hit and miss), they are OK (Jigsaw Racing ran them up to 8000 :o :o ). They gave more trouble in Midgets, due to poor oil cooling. Read up a bit on the triumph engine - quite a ...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: underated 1098?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9002
Re: underated 1098?
So long as you remember that the Triumph is long stroke and make sure the crank end float is OK (Quality control could be hit and miss), they are OK (Jigsaw Racing ran them up to 8000 :o :o ). They gave more trouble in Midgets, due to poor oil cooling. I've not put a rod out in nearly forty years; g...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 2:22 pm
- Forum: Do you know....?
- Topic: Engine rebuild
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1387
Re: Engine rebuild
I've had two heads done by http://www.peter-burgess.com/ . Both work well (The last time, the people at the rolling road commented in it) and Mr Burgess is very helpful.
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: underated 1098?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9002
Re: underated 1098?
WO Bentley said there is no replacement for displacement, so perhaps the 1275 is the ideal compromise. I know MGB engines have been fitted but it's not easy and I think the weight distribution is upset. I've driven 1098 cars and they seemed to go along well enough. The later 1098 Midgets went quite ...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: dual circuit brakes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 131922
Re: dual circuit brakes
I had a couple of VWs, that split diagonally and I remember they did it that way from the start. My late model MG Midget and my mother's BGT are, like my last two Minis, split front/rear.
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:07 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Gold Seal Rocker Cover Paint
- Replies: 4
- Views: 49335
Re: Gold Seal Rocker Cover Paint
I scanned this, recalling this thread and then saw that it was concerning gold seal colour. However, having scanned it, it may be useful to some!!
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:03 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: dual circuit brakes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 131922
Re: dual circuit brakes
I took the attached photo some years ago. The pedal box and pedals of a Marina had been fitted. Not sure if I will ever get around to doing this and I'd want it to be a tidier job. Of course the handbrake is a kind of dual circuit.
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 12:32 pm
- Forum: Mechanical
- Topic: Marina diff drain plug
- Replies: 13
- Views: 52008
Re: Marina diff drain plug
Rather than start a new thread, is the Marina axle compatible with the Minor? In other words, are the half shafts the same size (Wheel size different but not sure on wheel stud PCD)? My car has standard half shafts and whilst I don't do quick starts, it has 77bhp, not the 48 it had when it was new. ...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Safety in mind
- Replies: 17
- Views: 21691
Re: Safety in mind
Not see this topic before. I don't think a battery isolater has been listed but well worth it. Having been present, when something shorted out, does it all go up fast (I was lucky to have a wire cutter on hand)!! Most cut outs are bypassed with a fuse, that blows if a high loading is put on it. I re...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Adderley Park Built Minor's
- Replies: 15
- Views: 38535
Re: Adderley Park Built Minor's
I found an invoice, dated 1991, which includes a car alarm. There is no mention of a conversion to negative earth and the alarm would have been based on negative earth. I have never had a car alarm (Had an immobiliser that failed and was removed; most of my anti theft devices are known to me only) a...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 11:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Adderley Park Built Minor's
- Replies: 15
- Views: 38535
Re: Adderley Park Built Minor's
My Traveller (1293704F) is negative earth and I understood this was normal for late cars. I have a file of invoices, from when the car was new and there is no mention of it having been converted to negative earth. Were any late Minors built with negative earth and if so, from what point (I know Adde...