my brothers S/C 1380
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had a sucessful visit to vmax yesterday to have my brothers car setup, which I've built a S/C 1380 engine for.

the supercharger kit was bought in the auction at the London to Brighton run.

breif spec:

1380 block
cast omegas
vmax s/c cam
vmax supercharger kit
1.5:1 roller rockers
rebulit box
s/c drops
m/s 4 pin diff

ended up with 142.1 bananas and 127 Curley wirlies

and one happy brother!

I'll get some pictures up sooner or later

I've seen this and it's a really nice install :)

what clutch is he running Andy? he metioned it was slipping on the rollers.

cheers I'm pleased with it, just a few little bits to finish it off.

yeah it's running a verto with a green paint splodged AP cover lightened fly.

had a problem with the last one supplied, and thought this was the same.

could be my fault as it might have been a bit dirty, or med not having machined the flywheel correctly. stu says the spring type plates are 1mm thicker than the non spring type as this has.

thanks to your contribution on this as well joe, next time I will buy new thrusts!

sounds awesome, which vmax cam did he go for? I've been looking at using one in my build, but havn't heard anything about them yet.....

Mr. Prawn, the friendly Crustacean- slowly making steps towards forced induction.

Stu just said it was a supercharger specific profile. don't know which one it is.

ah right, he does two according to his site, one for up to 150bhp, and one for 150bhp+

Mr. Prawn, the friendly Crustacean- slowly making steps towards forced induction.

I would say it was the up to 150bhp I think it was similar to a 266 profile.

that's pretty cool then! do you know what sort of boost it is running to make 140bhp?

Mr. Prawn, the friendly Crustacean- slowly making steps towards forced induction.

Very impressive Andy. Very tidy install too buddy. :)

cheers Jason

my brothers back home again now so I will get some pics tommorrow.

don't know boost yet, the boost guage is on the list of finishing touches.

will let you know once it's fitted but it's a charger off job so may be a while before I get it done, I want to do some work on my own car! lol

so this is his car, its a german silver bullet limited edition spi cooper converted to carb and now supercharged.

outside its got carbon bonnet (not fitted) and carbon bumpers and 4 of carls finest mini special split rims with yoko a032rs and the standard silver bullet arches

suspension wise is got gaz lowered dampers negative camber lower arms and Kad h/d tie bars

inside its got leather cooper seats, momo wheel, roll center cage and a kad quickshit

and the engine as you know is supercharged

i do all the work on the car inbetween building my own car.

few pics off my phone

So...

how does it go!?

Looks great!

cheers oli, its been hard work to get it how it is now, thought it was about time i got someappreciation!

ive not had a chance to drive it anywhere yet, i only drove it to the end of the road and back at vmax.

goes pretty well from what i can tell, torque steers a bit!

i will have a proper go at the weekend!

This looks fantastic. Nice work!

In the 13's at last!.. Just

Have to say a massive THANK YOU to Andy for doing this for me. The rolling road result was a real credit, as he fitted this kit without any instructions! The "bullet" drives amazingly, I'm still slightly cautious of mashing the pedal, as it's a bit mental with the torque steer. I've owned my mini for years now, but I am now completly happy with the end product. Gonna spend my days off this week polishing and fitting a few parts back on (grill, new wipers, c/f bonnet etc) then I'll get some pics up of it in full glory!

Low, fast and aggressive looking......
Doesn't imitate something it's not!!!

Now a "Super Bullet"

Good to see you on here Rich:)

yep, definatly watch out for the torque steer, especially this weather lol

Well as I'm officially part of the forced induction mini program.....erm......thingy, thought it would be a goof idea. Still got my Stack to be fitted hehe.

Hmmmmm wet weather, Charger, and AO32's..... Watch out, watch out!

Low, fast and aggressive looking......
Doesn't imitate something it's not!!!

Now a "Super Bullet"

Oh also got my winter wheels to go on, gotta polish my rims for the sunny times.

Low, fast and aggressive looking......
Doesn't imitate something it's not!!!

Now a "Super Bullet"

Rich , Andy.

The Bullet is a credit to you both, well done lads, looks great.

Should have brought it to Pod last Sunday ! Never say never, I did and look where it got me - hooked. LoL.

Richard.

Minivanless, but reluctantly happy living with the decision. There'll be another one day.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=minimadmotorman#p/u

Have now fitted a omax rev limiter and shift light, as I found out what happens if u go over 6000rpm, 11 bladed fan! No more oops teach me for showing off. Thanks Andrew AGAIN!!!!

Low, fast and aggressive looking......
Doesn't imitate something it's not!!!

Now a "Super Bullet"

really? sounds like a strange one to me Richard!

I've got a plastic 11 blade fan on my 1380, with the blades cut down 1'' each, and it's been revving to 8k a few times a week for over 4 years now!

Mr. Prawn, the friendly Crustacean- slowly making steps towards forced induction.

good job looking ace!

2012 Avon class c 2nd place 13.8 @98mph

7000 actually!

prawn you probably haven't got a s/c to whip into you blades though.

there wasn't enought space between the belt and the fan and the belt just jumped and caught the fan blade.

vmax did say keep it below 6500 and it would be ok.

it's all repaired with no real damaged except the fan. took a couple of hours last night, wasn't too bad. I even had the Charger completely off and on again to do some unrelated work!

and the rev limiter set now!