Despite several interruptions there was still plenty of terrific action in the opening Mini 7 Racing Club meeting of the season from a sunny Norfolk Safety cars and red flags sadly cut into the racing laps over the 5-6 April weekend meeting at Snetterton, but Mini racing fans were still treated to the usual hectic […]
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The early spring-type clutch flywheels are of no use except where total originality is required on a concours car. The taper is too small and diaphragm pressure ring non-existent. No use to man nor beast.Part No Applications:C-AEG421, C-AEG420, C-AEG619, C-AEG620, 2A3657, 2A3658, 2A3659, 2A3512With the exception of the fact the two-piece flywheel is two pieces bolted together – this and the later […]
22A598 – Number cast in. Standard-grade cast iron22G270 – Number cast in. High-grade cast SG iron as fitted to Coopers and Cooper Ss Quinton Hazel – Triangular in shape, but only standard-grade cast iron.C-AHT230 – Mini Spares high-grade SG cast iron, but cast pre-lightened. Farndon Engineering – Machined from steel billet. I’m ignoring the old original spring-type jobs […]
Buying Spare parts The spare parts market has become very bouyant and very competitive, with what can only be called a minefield of so called Mini specialists.Most Mini enthusiasts will look through the advertisements looking for the best price, an alternative if available, and then who the company is. Are they as good as their […]
Ian Goldie My first visit to Mini Spares must have been over 12 years ago and while buying the usual go faster bits, I enquired about a Saturday job. A very lean and handsome Keith Calver could only offer me full time employment. I declined and subsequently have spent a small fortune over the years […]
Maximum Side-Draught Carburettor Potential For many years now, the steel-formed inlet manifolds – produced by a well known steel tube manifold fabrication company in England – have been accepted as THE performance manifolds for side draught carbs. This was mainly due to the extremely poor quality and terrible basic design of the alloy cast manifolds […]
ALTERNATIVE ENGINE TUNING Forthcoming, and indeed existing, emission control regulations are making it more and more difficult for people to run modified engines on the road. Sometime ago, I said that I would be looking at alternative ways to make a more interesting road car to the normal route – bigger everything (pistons, carbs, cams, […]
EI, EFI, ECU’S AND ALL THAT!Development work on the electronic systems disclosed in the first Mini Tech News has been progressing, albeit slowly. Unfortunately we have stumbled on a price problem. Having originally been quoted one price at our original discussions about total market price of the package, we had one test unit produced. Then […]
A WORD ABOUT HERITAGE Many people are wondering why Heritage can produce all the original parts for MGB and Midgets yet leave Mini owners desperate for such major panel work as Mini doors or door skins, as fitted to every Mini saloon up to 1969 and all vans. It is getting serious now as the […]
A SERIES EVO L.S.D – 50’s DESIGN. 90’s ENGINEERING When most folk talk about limited slip differentials for the Mini, minds immediately turn to the name “Salisbury”. Indeed many think that word covers any LSD for the Mini. This, of course, is not so. The Salisbury diff was designed in the 50’s at a time […]