A30 fast road car with 1275 bmw twincam head (reg WUR709)

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Engine is pretty much finished, I believe that there have been about 500 successful conversions like this done mostly on minis so I'm confident about this engine.
Crank, rods and flywheel have been balanced too.

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Also had a go at painting the block. This is the morris minor centre bell housing for the Ford gearbox.

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The bodywork is also coming along nicely, major fabrication work around 80% done. Door shut lines are very good.

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Wow engine looks amazing, great to hear how its all progressing Ed
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That looks very impressive! Keep the photo's comming!
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Test fitted the ford type 9 gearbox and clutch for the first time.
All seems to work after some messing about.

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Also dowelled the ring gear to the flywheel in three places as the ring gear has been on and off twice and didn't seem to fit tight enough.

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Looking good! Bet you can't wait to drive it.
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Hurtzberg wrote:Looking good! Bet you can't wait to drive it.
Sure am!

Made a new gearbox spigot bush out of phosphor bronze to suit the ford gearbox.
This presses into the end of the crank and it a clearance fit in the flywheel.

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Yoof: How's the car coming along? .. there has been some interest on the Practically Classics forum when someone spotted a Riley Elf with bike carbs ..
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How are things going with this interesting project ?
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Yoof wrote:Engine is pretty much finished, I believe that there have been about 500 successful conversions like this done mostly on minis so I'm confident about this engine.
Crank, rods and flywheel have been balanced too.

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I would hazard a guess that the exhaust manifold will keep you occupied for a while... :thumbs:
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