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Horsepower! been looking at stuff I shouldn't

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I never saw the larger bore 1380cc motor in a mini, even ones on the lot. I figure the block would look the same as all the other austin or mini engines, only with overhead cam so I just started searching on the net and found this.
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Its from this site here called seven enterprises. Don't you know that is one hot mini with 120hp and the head will bolt up to any 1275 and only costs 17,500 bucks /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif seven enterprises site
 
Whoo Whoooo
 
I have no words, none.
 
HOW MUCH??? Blimey, gonna have to start shipping them over if they are that expensive on your side of the pond! You can get a well sorted 1380 16v over here for around half that
 
Speedy_Pete said:
HOW MUCH??? Blimey, gonna have to start shipping them over if they are that expensive on your side of the pond! You can get a well sorted 1380 16v over here for around half that
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Yeah, but you guys got lots of mini owners that they could sell to. Supply and demand, I reckon. It would be worth the shipping if you could just buy the head and have it shipped. Says it fits any 1275 block.
 
That's very cool. Wish I had a huge budget, that would scream in a Bugeye, and look cool to boot!
 
okay so im salivating. looks like the head is designed and manufactured by Kent Auto Developments Ltd. in the UK

https://www.kad-uk.com/engine.htm

anyone have any trips planned to the UK? I could use some Eibach prokit springs for my freelander while you are over there /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
I've seen pictures of one in a midget and it required a hood bulge. And... the person was removing it because it was very finicky. I'd try a 7-port crossflow head if I was wanting to do something exotic to a naturally aspirated A-series.
 
So many fancy and expensive ways to get extra power out of an A-series motor. The cheapest effective answer is to fit a turbo. Find a waste-gated small turbo from an appropriate displacement modern engine and weld up a custom intake/exhaust manifold. Watch the conventionally aspirated engines (including sh**-hot 1380s) get small in the rearview.
 
The two crowflow heads were interesting, one had the valve orinintation, the other one didn't. Anyone else notice that. Twin cam heads have been out there for A-seires engine for awhile, several ompanies have made them over the years, you see example in Vizards book which are well over 20 years old, most of these efforts don't exceed because the heads are just oo expensive for any great number of people to buy them. The problem with cross flow heads are they make the car a bear to work on because you cover up the dizzy and and oil filter. I did a crosslfow head MGB engine for customer, kinda cool, pretty fast, had twin HS6s on it, more trouble than it was worth for a street car was my final opinion.
 
But I like the 7 port. It uses the original valve train and headers. I'm thinking 4 little throttle bodies and EDIS, and you could have a hot little street car that would be reliable and you could still say ... "it's an A-series"

Otherwise, might as well do the Toyota 4AGE swap.
 
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