Vintage Minor Register

I'm also gonna cheat with the bending, i intend making lots of small 'V's in the tube, then bending it to suit, and then welding or brazing the cuts up..... it may not be pretty, but it saves the grief of finding someone to do it for me.... it does mean that i can make it fit as near as possible, th...

Crazy question i know, but what have people found to be the easiest way to fit an engine into a car with steering column and firewall in place.... cos getting the old one out was a right pain...... getting the flywheel housing past the steering column was less than easy...... i removed the rocker co...

Usefull pictures, i was gonna put three pairs of baffles in mine, is there a measurement that shows the length of the straight section of the silencer....??? mine is 15 inches plus cones......

Thanks Mike, it'd be good to see some internal pictures, as i've just started making the silencer this evening, i was expecting sourcing such small pipe to be an issue these days, however this morning i rang my local motor factors, and hey ho, the smallest pipe they do is..... 32mm.... so i order 2 ...

Well, today i decided to start removing the old engine, and the first thing i did was check what needle was in the current carb, it's an M5, so i'll either use that, or get an M from Ian....... whe he gets back off this trip thing he's on.....

Thanks Mike... a quick google found this!!
http://www.goodsteel.co.uk/contactus.asp

Well done Ken, you confused the hell out of me, but that doesn't take a lot!!.. Oddly the needle that is in the carb at the moment is an MD, or maybe MO...... so lord knows where that came from!! Rolling road.... Hmmm, Janspeed have one in salisbury, which ironically is smack bang next door to Burle...

Having had the carb rebuilt by Burlen Services, they claimed not to have any data on which needle would be fitted to a minor, so i said to just leave the one that was in it when i took it to them, however, now that the engine is complete, and with it's 12/12 cam, i suspect that even a standard minor...

Blimey Ian.... is the bed pan not even in the comtainer yet....... the tyres were soft when i collected the car after it had stodd for a few weeks, let alone months!!!! i hope they can find it when it's time to ship it!!

Right, I for one would be interested in an OHC system.,.... So.. 1 Ronald Hogg. OHC Ken, fear not, if this doesn't come off, then i WILL make a silencer, and even if it does, it's still easy enough to add baffles to an unbaffled silencer, simply make cuts halfway down where you want a baffle, cut th...

i visited cooke gp last week [hopeing they would open museum for peatling pub meet but they cant] and while there i asked about exhausts. the reply was that they can easily make them.noting the interest on this thread i will ask for prices[sv and ohc] and batch detail. it will probably not be long ...

WOW, i never expected so much discussion, shame there's not an off the shelf system with conical silencer available, i suspect i shall end up making one to be honest, as i'm not too worried about the asthetics of the actual silencer, i can easily make one that will be roughly right, which has always...

Do Sports and vintage, or anyone else come to that do an off the shelf exhaust for the ohc Minor...... i think the one on the car is so thin the masses of power from the new engine will blow it apart....LOL!!! Will also need front and rear engine mounts.... although i suspect they will be easier to ...

Right update time.... The engine is now complete, and sitting in my garage, we collected it from it's re-maker today.... heard it running and everything...... the video will be posted shortly...!! along with a few decent pictures.... just for you Ken.... mum took them... :wink: It's sat on a kind of...

Great news Ronald, but wouldn't your Dad be shocked - if fact I expect he is, and smiling to himself. I can imagine him thinking that in spite of all the work and money spent, old MT won't go as fast as it did in my hands! No way! By the way, next time you try to take photos I suggest you ask your ...