Morris FIA Race Car
Re: Morris FIA Race Car
is it a weslake? looking at the picture again i cant properly tell if its upswept manifold on a arden?
- alexdenevers
- 998 Cooper
- Posts: 265
- Joined: Thu Jun 24, 2010 1:51 pm
- Location: Lyon, France
- Contact:
Re: Morris FIA Race Car
I'm not agree with black colour on minis, I think it hides its curves. I would prefer a pastel colour, somewhere between grey and blue, with contrasting roof.
- Vegard
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 2042
- Joined: Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:33 pm
- Location: Norway
- Contact:
Re: Morris FIA Race Car
It's definitely a Weslake. You can see the four core plugs in front where the ports would be on an Arden.chris-pilling wrote:is it a weslake? looking at the picture again i cant properly tell if its upswept manifold on a arden?
-
- 850 Super
- Posts: 136
- Joined: Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:13 pm
- Location: Germany
- Contact:
Re: Morris FIA Race Car
here is another picture: http://www.mcm1980ev.de/component/optio ... l/id,3303/
Re: Morris FIA Race Car
alexdenevers wrote:I'm not agree with black colour on minis, I think it hides its curves. I would prefer a pastel colour, somewhere between grey and blue, with contrasting roof.
once you go black you never go back.. haha
Re: Morris FIA Race Car
phil82 wrote:here is another picture: http://www.mcm1980ev.de/component/optio ... l/id,3303/
cheers phil82, i thought it odd that someone would paint an alloy head i figured it must have been a weslake.. Good head, the kind i like.. haha
-
- 998 Cooper
- Posts: 373
- Joined: Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:17 am
- Location: Australia
Re: Morris FIA Race Car
Could be an iron Weslake?chris-pilling wrote:phil82 wrote:here is another picture: http://www.mcm1980ev.de/component/optio ... l/id,3303/
cheers phil82, i thought it odd that someone would paint an alloy head i figured it must have been a weslake.. Good head, the kind i like.. haha
Mini's don't rust................Downunder!
-
- 850 Super
- Posts: 136
- Joined: Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:13 pm
- Location: Germany
- Contact:
Re: Morris FIA Race Car
found another picture of that engine before the rebuild:
sorry for all that off topic.
sorry for all that off topic.
- Etienne B.
- 850 Super
- Posts: 236
- Joined: Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:55 am
- calex_fr
- Posts: 1
- Joined: Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:15 pm
- Location: France
- Contact:
Re: Morris FIA Race Car
what is this fuel injected system, Lucas ?
Alex
Seventies Classic Club Trophy
Seventies Classic Club Trophy
-
- 850 Super
- Posts: 136
- Joined: Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:13 pm
- Location: Germany
- Contact:
Re: Morris FIA Race Car
Etienne, did you have a good night?!
No it's not a Lucas, it's a Tecalemit, but as far as I know they have some problems setting up the injection system.
If anybody has some information on how to tune that and would like to share them, that would be great. I would like to forward them to Juergen who did the rebuild of that car/engine.
No it's not a Lucas, it's a Tecalemit, but as far as I know they have some problems setting up the injection system.
If anybody has some information on how to tune that and would like to share them, that would be great. I would like to forward them to Juergen who did the rebuild of that car/engine.
- alexdenevers
- 998 Cooper
- Posts: 265
- Joined: Thu Jun 24, 2010 1:51 pm
- Location: Lyon, France
- Contact:
Re: Morris FIA Race Car
Very interesting view of the engine management, especially pulse pump.
The engine doesn't suffered from overheating ? (fan blade..)
The engine doesn't suffered from overheating ? (fan blade..)
-
- Site Admin
- Posts: 19843
- Joined: Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:30 am
- Location: Away with the Faries
- Has thanked: 2 times
- Been thanked: 5 times
Re: Morris FIA Race Car
The setup above is "TJ" Tacalemit Jackson, lots of details on the main MK1 site.
http://mk1-performance-conversions.co.u ... l_carb.htm
About 1/2 way down.
http://mk1-performance-conversions.co.u ... l_carb.htm
About 1/2 way down.
-
- 850 Super
- Posts: 212
- Joined: Fri Nov 26, 2010 8:24 pm
Re: Morris FIA Race Car
assuming fuel pumps are in good running order switch pumps on see how much fuel is going into inake manifold pulling throttle bodies open not by the metering unit adjust pressure regulator to get a drip of fuel every second nip up locnut on regulator set pressure relief valve at around at about 15 pounds set metering cable so min of play be careful not to flood engine hope this helps regards graham
-
- Posts: 22
- Joined: Wed Nov 24, 2010 2:27 pm
-
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 3180
- Joined: Fri Aug 13, 2010 5:25 am
- Location: Denmark
- Pete
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 11085
- Joined: Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:47 pm
- Has thanked: 16 times
- Been thanked: 39 times
Re: Morris FIA Race Car
I wouldn't have used unvented 'oversills' though , they just fill up with water and rot out. Amazing how many do still use them
-
- Posts: 22
- Joined: Wed Nov 24, 2010 2:27 pm
Re: Morris FIA Race Car
I totally agree whith you. An other people say me the same.Surf 1275 wrote:I wouldn't have used unvented 'oversills' though , they just fill up with water and rot out. Amazing how many do still use them
But it's a race car, so I would like to fix the roll cage to the floor and the bottom box for the rigidity.
- Pete
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 11085
- Joined: Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:47 pm
- Has thanked: 16 times
- Been thanked: 39 times
Re: Morris FIA Race Car
Fair comment.
By the way talking of sills the worst case I saw of premature rot was on a really nice car that had been sandblasted and the sill sections were left filled to the top with (wet) grit. The new sills took less than three years to rot through.
By the way talking of sills the worst case I saw of premature rot was on a really nice car that had been sandblasted and the sill sections were left filled to the top with (wet) grit. The new sills took less than three years to rot through.
-
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 3180
- Joined: Fri Aug 13, 2010 5:25 am
- Location: Denmark
Re: Morris FIA Race Car
No problemo, just drill a 8 mm hole, in bottom of each of the squares.mehariman1 wrote:I totally agree whith you. An other people say me the same.Surf 1275 wrote:I wouldn't have used unvented 'oversills' though , they just fill up with water and rot out. Amazing how many do still use them
But it's a race car, so I would like to fix the roll cage to the floor and the bottom box for the rigidity.
then water can get out, and more important, you can spray some thin penetrating rust preventing oil inthere and use one of these long "thingies" with a "shower" effect