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Hi folks. Greetings from South Australia.

My history with (mostly 2nd hand) British cars began at age 16:
1962 - '54 Morris Minor Series II - written off 1964
1965 - '63 Morris Cooper 997cc
1967 - Cooper sold
1968 - '64 (Imported) Morris Cooper S 1275cc - Special tuning options twin H4 carbs and Mag wheels - what a car!
1972 - Laid up the Cooper S - continued with life and family, but used experience repairing mini engines and gearboxes to finance University Mech Eng.
2012 - Took delivery of new Morgan 4/4
2015 - 2017 Stripped repaired and painted Cooper S body
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2016 - Rebored engine 0.060" o'size
2017 - 2020 Accumulated stock of new parts
2020 - Mid 2021 - Serviceable part cleaning, painting
2021 - Now - Reassembly and retrimming proceeding
2022 - May finish by Christmas (covid notwithstanding)

Driving this mini was exciting, addictive and so, so much fun.
 
Welcome aboard!

Looking forward to the progress reports. What induction do you have planned for the Mini?
 
G'day DrEntropy,
I'll be keeping the twin SU H4 carbs - an economics issue for me at the mo'. I'm too long in the tooth to venture into forced induction.
By the way, in the mid 90s I drove a '73 Alfa GTV - 2 litre, two twinchoke DellOrto carbs. What a beatiful drive that was! But... Russian steel bodywork (so I was told) rusted around me. Its sale amounted to the engine sale for AUD2500. I was heartbroken.
 
Manxlad said:
G'day DrEntropy,
I'll be keeping the twin SU H4 carbs - an economics issue for me at the mo'. I'm too long in the tooth to venture into forced induction.
By the way, in the mid 90s I drove a '73 Alfa GTV - 2 litre, two twinchoke DellOrto carbs. What a beatiful drive that was! But... Russian steel bodywork (so I was told) rusted around me. Its sale amounted to the engine sale for AUD2500. I was heartbroken.
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I understand about the rust mites and Alfas. Three GT's in my past, 1300, 1600 and a 1750. The '69 GTV was the cream of the crop IMHO. All Weber'd, converted this Spider to 40-DCOE's as well.

I'd once seen a works Mini with TWO 45-DCOE's on it, split manifolds so only one (inboard) throat fed two pots. Impre$$ive!! :cool:
 
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