it lives egor! - 1293 8v Bimmer Twinky
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As is customary for these sort of events - I've loaded the start up vids for the SC demo cars engine - lots of hurdles to jump through with this one - different issues to my gold 16v one - which is typical really! got there in the end though and she looks like being a little sweetheart. Lots of jobs left but I'll get stuck in next week.


Firstly - major big thank you to Anthony (Antman) for putting in many hours on the build up of the car to this stage - his extra pair of hands and working skills has saved me a load of time/effort to get it to where it is now - cheers mate - owe you more than one. he's also the one behind the camera! - all fingers crossed for him finishing his own version of the K conversion off before the end of Jan. Three K headed minis in one town!

there are three vids, the start up - where the engine sounds like a 320° cammed mini running on three! an idling vid - this is after a few mins mapping and setting the closed loop lambda in operation - smooth! the final vid is from the other end of the car - pls excuse the excitable geordie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fGTtXdp-Do
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ult586AMmy8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b68tgWpvYMI

cheers

John

If Carling made Mini engines
it would probably be like this one!

excellent

antmans a good egg!

he's a 100% top geezer - with a nice range of imperial spanners!

thanks Nic

If Carling made Mini engines
it would probably be like this one!

That is smooth! Like the colour of the cam cover too.

isnt it amazing how quite an engine is when it doesnt have tappets, sure is smooth, nice one

"Can I legally marry people now that I am ordained in the Church of the SubGenius?" aka i know jack sh"t

i also make things

i love coming home to chrome

great stuff!

Saw the ad in the "new stuff" in miniworld/mag....

the prices they quoted seemed odd :S

alex

AlexF

NICE!!! I want one :)

www.shag.no

i know what you mean vegar, it has given me ideas for my clubman

I perticularly like the street sleeper cluby estate that you have put this in John. That is going to give some one a fright

again, top drawer stuf. Keep up the good work

thanks guys - the clubby should be fun - all the running gear is your normal fast road/race stuff with billet 4 pots under the rostyles, its staying std looks wise complete with webasto roof and blue check interior!

If Carling made Mini engines
it would probably be like this one!

Any idea of bananas or curly whirlies yet???

Every day is a school day ...........

How fast and how expensive ...... the same question...

So what engine/head is it? Sounded nice...

On 2nd of Jan, 2007 at 04:50pm Monster22 said:
So what engine/head is it? Sounded nice...

Edited by Rob H on 2nd Jan, 2007.

Thats really cool :)

I want one.

Manchester Minis

8V????? Arent they 16V?

Or am i talking thru my arse!

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

There are 8 and 16v BMW K heads out there......

Ah i see! Looks like a tempting build, i might consider this sort of engine for my next project, are the heads rare??

Edited by MikeRace on 2nd Jan, 2007.

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

If you go round the specialist bike breakers the 8v heads aren't too hard to get hold of, my mate's managed to get hold of a few in the last couple of months, 16v heads aren't as common but they're not hens teeth either.

I've had a read through my mate's copy of the build guide (I would definitely recommend buying a copy if you're thing about this conversion) and John makes it sound very easy (well no harder than any other engine build).

Well done John, nice to hear and see in running!

Team Racing

Grrrr.... I can't look at it as You-Tube has been blocked on my works server (can't think why lol)!

I have seen the mini before though, and have an imagination, so can picture this working nicely :)

John - there is a forum somewhere called the 'clubman estate register' - you might want to post it on that aswell :)

they've found you out then Dave!

the engine is a 1293 A+ base unit with a K100 8v twin cam head (std porting + cams), bmw throttle bodies, the rest is SC specific components. We've built it up as "std" spec so that we can offer a fully mapped ecu to work with this spec in the near future.

cheers Jim - hos yours going?

If Carling made Mini engines
it would probably be like this one!

hey john!
this is looking and sounding very good, ive got 2 k100 heads now but still after a 16valver. Im just deciding on how big to make the engine , 1293 or 1380???
Hope to see it out and about soon

pickmeup - 1460/1480 with a flowed out 8v head - think of the torque! never mind the power, I may know someone whom could help with proper big journal stroker crank/rods as well!

If Carling made Mini engines
it would probably be like this one!

that would be mental in the maguire! im going to port one of the heads and leave the other one standard for the time being.