1971 cooper s manifold

minidean · Post by **minidean** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 11:42 am

This is the manifold I removed from my mk3 cooper s project. Its obviously been made to fit. Does anyone know what the original manifold should look like?

Hope you can help?

Dr S · Post by **Dr S** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 12:39 pm

Looks a funny one? Just on the basis of the text on it. Who's going to read that in a mini?!?

Maybe off something longitudinal?

Lokie · Post by **Lokie** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 3:15 pm

Looks like the bottom half of a standard mini manifold. The exhaust manifold of my Mk1 '67 'S' looked like this.

Post by **coopertim** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 3:18 pm

Looks to be a 1300 manifold - VFF has one just like it and it has the single carb.

Tim

coop12g295 · Post by **coop12g295** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:31 pm

Standard manifold,I tried that to clear an inlet to use an lcb and made a hole where I didn't need one

ivor badger 2 · Post by **ivor badger 2** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 8:07 pm

valve clearance 0.012" and 2A part no? early HS2 850?

minidean · Post by **minidean** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 9:52 pm

Thank everyone, does anyone know which is the right mini fold for my car??

Post by **steve1071** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 10:00 pm

Either a aeg573 or 12g2463, but not sure when the change over was.

minidean · Post by **minidean** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 10:48 pm

I might be asking for the wrong thing

I have the inlet Manifold i think its the exhaust manifold i need?? This bit??

Post by **Pete** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 12:24 am

Dean the engine photo above by Lokie shows an original exhaust manifold, they weren't tubular as they are now. They're only available used and you'll find it tough to source a decent one. I'd personally just use a modern 3 branch equivalent from Maniflow or such unless you're going for 100% originality (yawn...). The butchered cast one on your engine was quite a common way of replacing an exhaust manifold on the cheap back in the day, a typical skinflint would cut the inlet off the top of the casting to enable it to be used with a seperate inlet (as you have on the 'S') and basically strangle the engine in the process

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If you want 100% originality you'd be looking for an original for a while, bearing in mind it was a common performance tweak to fit a Special Tuning one (ie Downton) (ie pretty much the same as a new Maniflow!)

nick@dunsdale · Post by **nick@dunsdale** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 8:14 am

Oh dear I am a skinflint lol, cut a few of those back in the day, though I did eventually buy a decent three branch and a rc40 lol.

Another cheapo job was to use the two boxes of a gt as they had a wider bore on the tail pipe and in between the boxs. But they had a narrow front section.

Answer remove the skinny front pipe and use a section from a maxi as it also had the crank in it to get past the gear stick remote. And it was the size of bore as the tail pipe, that might have been only me that carried out that cheap mod lol

Chalkie · Post by **Chalkie** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 11:18 am

Cheap man's way to install a Alloy manifold ;] grind off the inlet

we did it backwards for a moggie minor needed the inlet not the exhaust.

Smiffy · Post by **Smiffy** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 11:47 am

Scrapyard exhaust weren't they the best, made my first on from a ford granada exhaust. Was the closest size I could find to what vizard recommended in the white book and had a chrome tail pipe

tedmcedd · Post by **tedmcedd** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 7:00 pm

If you really want a pressed manifold, I think I have a couple lying about somewhere...?

but as already said, a modern Maniflow manifold will be better!

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