My first car was a mini, by the time I got rid of it it was developing about 85hp at the flywheel.
You cant bore a 1000 or 1100 out to 1275 cc, they have different bore centres or sumthing like that
You also will struggle to fit two twin choke webbers on a mini, ive personally never seen it done, even to fit a single sidedraught webber you have to muck around with the bulkhead as its too close.
Ive never seen a mini with 4 wheel discks, there are some in England and I think there is a guy building a mini dejoux somewhere up north thats doing it. Generally they go hand in hand with beam axles.
LSD or straight cut gear boxes are very expensive and 5 speed are even worse (like 8 grand last time I checked) plus the std 5 speed is only good for about 90hp so above that you need straight cut gears. 4 speed gearboxes are cheap and plentiful so theyre pretty easy to store if ya can swap them yourself.
My old mini was a 1275GT with twin SU's, extractors, 1 7/8 exhaust, head work, hot cam, higher compression, 20 thou over. Every single person that went in it was impressed. Only trouble was stopping it from spinning the wheels as it was well undertyred.
Sorry for hijacking the thread
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datto1200 wrote:
go for the mini, sounds like a great buy, I currently have a mini which is (currently) pretty stock. Minis are the #### for handling they are awesome, already low with hard suspension. If you want a fun club racer for not much money minis are the way. To start developing power for not much cost this is what you need to do: get a 1300 (big valve) engine from an MG1300 of bore the origional engine to that size, get a hot cam, port the head, add extractors, put a twin carb manifold with twin choke side draft webbers. all relatively cheap mods and you develop about 90-110 HP. with wide-wheels and 4 wheel discs it should be a force to reckon with. However if you were to do the same modifications to you datsun you would definently davelop more power. The choice is really yours.
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