Gearbox decision

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Re: Gearbox decision

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Hello.
Your build sounds interesting....
How about a 22G1128 full straight cut with a pudding stirrer attached!!!! :shock:
Would look very stock but add a little interest on track days..... :lol:
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Have you tried contacting this guy: http://www.guess-works.com/
He built a gearbox for such a conversion that a guy 'the mad scotsman' round here has in his previously Spi'd mini, and it has worked fine, and thats a rodchange.

What doesn't work so good is getting that engine in under a standard bonnet,
must be even worse in a chopped down sprinted shell.
Maybe a auto subframe can help in lowering the engine.
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I’d go remote, just for the worlds best engine steady.
I've got a 69 Mini with a 1046, Cooper Head and a four on the floor.
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I think JR had a 1128 sc box for sale..
I’ve just built a 333 with a magic wand style conversion.
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If you're going so far from standard anyway I'd go rod change.
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AustinSuperSeven wrote:Hello.
Your build sounds interesting....
How about a 22G1128 full straight cut with a pudding stirrer attached!!!! :shock:
Would look very stock but add a little interest on track days..... :lol:
It looks a bit more complete now...
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Late model rod change with - big - idler gear (bearings).

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1071 S wrote:Late model rod change with - big - idler gear (bearings).

Cheers, Ian
I second that , no point in having unreliable originality in an un original car . G
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timmy201 wrote:
AustinSuperSeven wrote:Hello.
Your build sounds interesting....
How about a 22G1128 full straight cut with a pudding stirrer attached!!!! :shock:
Would look very stock but add a little interest on track days..... :lol:
It looks a bit more complete now...
Image

Very nice and original looking..... well done :D
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The Strongest Cases they did were the DAM5262.

Stay away from any other DAM series case, as they were the weakest.
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Re: Gearbox decision

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timmy201 wrote:
AustinSuperSeven wrote:Hello.
Your build sounds interesting....
How about a 22G1128 full straight cut with a pudding stirrer attached!!!! :shock:
Would look very stock but add a little interest on track days..... :lol:
It looks a bit more complete now...
Image

This is what I am trying to put together at the minute.
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