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Can anyone tell me if the 1.3i cooper engine is just an A+ with injection or is it different?
Can they be modified ok?
Cheers
Mark

I got a spi block,alternator bracket bit diff as it bolt on head on spi

Edited by Dangerous on 29th Jan, 2005.

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mpi block oil filter screws straight on front of engine so dunno how u fit a cooler

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so the core of the engine is a basic A+ then just with a few bits tacked on?

Yeah spi is (they moved the alternator higher cus of front mounted radiator)stiill has petrolpump/turbo return hole round back.No bypass hose.Don't know about mpi(might not have a dizzy hole)??? compression is higher to at about 10.5:1 ish but any head fits.my stage 4 head only had 15cc chambers so I sold the head and going to turbo the bottom end.
Brian

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head modification ok to go, like any other
engine block you can do everting the same
as the others bore etc,etc,
but no oil cooler
oil cooler not reqd untill power outputs are reaching 120bhp if you use synthetic oil
15/40 ish

nothing, less than a 40 grade

I have an option on one with a knakerd gearbox, you guys think this would be a good engine to strip and rebuild for my single seater project??

Edited by Big Mark on 29th Jan, 2005.

spi had side mounted rad, tpi had front mounted.

Phil.

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Truth:
SPi was the same block, head, cam and gearbox as the stock 1.3 carb model.
At the time the injection came out, they cahnged the thread of the oil filter pipe in the block and filter housing - this more modern pipe is prone to leaking incidentally - so you'd need different oil cooler fittings (they are available however- just somethign to be aware of!)

MPi (1997 on) was a TOTALLY different block. This had the filter head integral with the block. The head was diffferent - the head show above is an MPi, not an SPi head - and the gearbox had a close-ratio gearset, along with a 2.7 diff. It's just a shame they made the gears in the transmission out of chocolate...

Incidentally, some of the MPi heads (as above) appear to have a REALLY thick deck, so would probably take a lot of chamber modification...

Edited by turbodave16v on 29th Jan, 2005.

Confused now I got the engine as an spi and it had the same casting number (LDF105800)as another spi head I saw for sale.
Just sold it to minispares(australia)......so shouldn't come back

Edited by Dangerous on 29th Jan, 2005.

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