Mini Howlers

[Barman]

There are so many of these that they really need their own thread.... 

I'll try and pick the best each day... 

Ok here goes ive recently bought a mini city E 1985!

The car had a full length dash which had been removed before sale, leaving just a centre speedo. The old dash had a temp and oil pressure guage. However I cannot find wear the wires too these were did mini city Es have these originally?

I have bought a centre barnacle with the temp and oil pressure smiths guages but am at a loss as to wear they wired in! The speedo plus into a socked with a screw on speedo cable!

[Nick]

Linky?

[Barman]

http://www.theminiforum.co.uk/forums/topic/214443-mini-centre-barnacle/

 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

I was sort of expecting this.....

[Barman]

[Barman]

Good Evening all.....

Apart from the obvious as in closing the air vents, is there a method out there or some sort of guccy product for preventing water comin in when in the wet or going threw a puddle?

Tellin me in the Italian Job when going threw the weir, no water got inside? lol

[Snoopy]

Good Evening all.....

Apart from the obvious as in closing the air vents, is there a method out there or some sort of guccy product for preventing water comin in when in the wet or going threw a puddle?

Tellin me in the Italian Job when going threw the weir, no water got inside? lol

In the old days ~ Like when the original Italian Job film was made ~ we used to give all the 'lectrics a good spraying of WD40 and then encase them in baking foil with more foil behind the front grill.. Mind you any puddle taken at speed would still bring the original mini to a stop. The cars used to film the sequence in the I.J. were NOT standard Minis.

[Barman]

inside on mods done to engine....
i have just built a new 1340 mini engine all parts new bar crank rods block and head 10.2:1 hepolite pistons 12g940 head standard valves (new) double springs hardend seats fully balanced bottom end crank flywheel balancer pistons rods running a 649 cam moderate headwork removed 70% of the guide bosses. port sizes to vizard specs and reworked behind the valves to help flow fitted with a 40 dcoe weber 35mm chokes.
now the story begins ____ first start of engine stared first compression ran to 2500rpm to run in cam engine ran smooth temps oil good as ran for 15mins shut down retorqued head valve clearances set to .016" as cam specs inspect plugs nice biscut brown colour restart engine high idle still test drive goes like a rocket little flatspot not to bad done few ks ok time to tune drop idle set idle mixture screws idle verysmooth not lumpy at all exhaust sounds strange like not idiling on 4 few tests remove spark lead no 1 no change no2 big drop in idle almost stalls no 3same as no2 almost stalls no 4 no change strange rev up with no leads on 1 and 4 very flat missing put leads back on revs real nice and clean small flatspot still. strange not running on 1 and 4 at idle remove plugs 1 wet and clean 2 dry and brown 3 dry and brown 4 dry and light brown .compression test 180psi all cylinders very strange saimese port cyl 1 and 2 share also 3 and 4 one cylinder per port not running . ok next test start engine with just 1 and 4 ht leads on engine starts wont idle low runs rough but on both cylinders checked manifold and carb for vacume leaks no leaks. very strange suspect cam timing remove timing cover check double check triple check all good no1 intake valve fully open at 103 deg as specs say . rang cam guy says big cam no vacume idle be crap. ratshit street car no good remove engine fit new sp13 cam 276 equv cam fast road less duration sweet should solve idle problem timed cam to 106 deg as specs say start engine run in cam 15 mins drop to idle stil same what this cant be drove car nice power lots of pull from low revs nice still idle fault still flatspot solve flatspot increase idle jets from 45 to 50 flatspot almost non existant do hot shutdown medium light throttle remove all plugs all even nice brown colour little rich fine for now so that eliminates main jets idle engine for 2 mins or so remove all plugs 2 and 3 little rich not fouled rich no1 wet no4 dry still no idle 1 and 4. next test remove 2 and 3 spark plugs and start engine on 1 and four adjust to and low idle runs nice ok refit no 2 and 3 spark plus with no other adjustments sprk leads still off start engine wont idle running rough shutdown refit spark leads 2 and 3 and removed 1 and 4 plugs started engine ran nice low idle with no adjustments . what the hell ok spoke to a few people none have ever heard of this hapening even tried restricting the exhaust for more back pressure if i put 55 idle jets in and richen mixture up it almost runs on 4 cylenders at idle but fouls the plugs im starting to run out of options i have tried 2 different 40 dcoe webers that are in perfect order and also a 45 dhla delorto with adjustable air bleeds still same symptom also put back in a standard points distributor to eliminate dizzy fault . i am thinking towards a scavenging fault and the 2 centre cylinders are robbing the good a/f mixture and two outside getting the crap left over but why and anyway to overcome this fault . i have had alot of experence porting heads on cortina escort and triumph engines with great success and have two cars with twin webers and delortos self tuned and they run great but this mini has got me stuffed i am lost anyone help me

And breathe! 

[Just One More]

I stopped reading after the first three lines. Did he get it sorted 

[Barman]

I stopped reading after the first three lines. Did he get it sorted 

I've no idea... I think everybody gave up on that one.... 

[Barman]

well basicly now got head sorted and all runing ok i done the mixture with the gunson colortune http://www.ebay.co.u...#ht_1876wt_1037 and i went for a drive and when i put my foot down it like died so i trend the fuel up quarter of a tern and it still dose it at like serton reves but instead of dying it goes 2 die then come back 2 life and exclorates should i tern it up some more ? the spark plug is a orange brownie color
my mate said it cloud be not enough air? iv got a cheap k&n

 

[Darwins Selection]

well basicly now got head sorted and all runing ok i done the mixture with the gunson colortune http://www.ebay.co.u...#ht_1876wt_1037 and i went for a drive and when i put my foot down it like died so i trend the fuel up quarter of a tern and it still dose it at like serton reves but instead of dying it goes 2 die then come back 2 life and exclorates should i tern it up some more ? the spark plug is a orange brownie color
my mate said it cloud be not enough air? iv got a cheap k&n

 

Wasn't Serton Reves that bloke in Superman?

[Barman]

well basicly now got head sorted and all runing ok i done the mixture with the gunson colortune http://www.ebay.co.u...#ht_1876wt_1037 and i went for a drive and when i put my foot down it like died so i trend the fuel up quarter of a tern and it still dose it at like serton reves but instead of dying it goes 2 die then come back 2 life and exclorates should i tern it up some more ? the spark plug is a orange brownie color
my mate said it cloud be not enough air? iv got a cheap k&n

 

Wasn't Serton Reves that bloke in Superman?

[Barman]

Im trying to get my mini to run properly...; one of the problems ive got is it seems stalved of fuel when reving.

The fuel filter barely fills up, fill up half way when engine off... then runs but then starts to run out of fuel... and coughs . The fule pump is def working but not dure if the fuel filter is a bit to big?

I have a pipe going from the pup to the carb and then one next to it connected to nothing can someone tell me where it should got please?

sorry pick is rubbish, also the black knob on the su carb.. is that to adjust the mixture?

 

[Nick]

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