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[Lizzie_Zoom]

 

I rather like that EMD

How the real Mini could have been developed eh?

[dbug]

Thats some price, although to be fair high class restorations.  Used to love working on these Ss, 997, 1071 and 1275 A seies motors.  Makes me wish I had kept my 1293 racing S.

And the 970 S.

 One bank holiday I installed an LSD then put lump back in car. It ran noisy, so convinced I had built it wrong- out it came, strip down, rebuild, back in. Noise still there. Rusty wheel bearing GRR

Thats what I meant to have typed - rarest S engine of the lot - sold a second hand one in the early 70s for £300, from a wrecker I paid £10 for to use the fairly new tyres on the wife's mini.

997cc (and subsequent 998cc) was in fact used in the Cooper, not the S.

[YZ250]

Thats some price, although to be fair high class restorations.  Used to love working on these Ss, 997, 1071 and 1275 A seies motors.  Makes me wish I had kept my 1293 racing S.

And the 970 S.

 One bank holiday I installed an LSD then put lump back in car. It ran noisy, so convinced I had built it wrong- out it came, strip down, rebuild, back in. Noise still there. Rusty wheel bearing GRR

Thats what I meant to have typed - rarest S engine of the lot - sold a second hand one in the early 70s for £300, from a wrecker I paid £10 for to use the fairly new tyres on the wife's mini.

997cc (and subsequent 998cc) was in fact used in the Cooper, not the S.

After a split bypass hose caused a seize, I dumped an Austin 1300GT engine in mine. The engine was an 'unknown' but it went equally as well as the previous 1340cc engine that Oselli's had built for me.    Result