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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?

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?

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

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

Tim

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

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

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

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

I might be asking for the wrong thing I have the inlet Manifold i think its the exhaust manifold i need?? This bit??

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 .
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!)

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

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.

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

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!