fit spi or keep carb????

[Deleted]

right guys i have a 96 spi mini sitting in my lockup doing nothing needs inner and outer sills body is untidy, motd/taxed sept and my other mini 1980 1000 is just sitting in the other lockup mot/tax oct waiting for me to fit the s disc setup that ive not got round to doing yet and the servo aswell
my question is,,,

Is or would there be any benefit if i tranfered the spi gear into the 1980 and whats involved in the conversion

the spi`s 1275 is one of the most quiet engines ive ever heard no abnormal noises or nasty groans very nice lump
where as the 1000 is just a bag of spanners

just want to know wether theres any point to doing it and whats involved

[mk1morris]

as most jobs on a mini quite simple but time consuming
you need to run the spi wiring loom
you also need to run a return fuel line
theres prob lodes more as well
the benifits are no manual chock turn the key and go
a quiter running engine with no carb indution noise

disavantage
cant be tuned like a carb
lots of eletrics made by rover

i have a spi and would never go back when you get to my age you apreshiate the quiter engine

[MiniGT5]

fit a carb & dizzy to the spi lump and plum in same way as your old engine

N.

[AntMan]

Aug 23, 2010 9:54:50 GMT mk1morris said:

i have a spi and would never go back when you get to my age you apreshiate the quiter engine

'when you get to my age.....' ha you do make me laugh

Ant

[Stephen]

The SPi already has a distributor. Stick a carb on and put it in your other Mini. Retro-fitting the SPi system is a huge and potentially expensive job

[Bean Machine!!!]

if the bag of spanners is hank my sisters old car I remeber it being a good little runner and goes well after we fitted a stage 1 kit to it. SO i cant see the point of goign to all the effort
lol:)

[Deleted]

hank is running great now,,just cant adjust out the tappet noise lol,,,had to adjust the carb just to get it running properly, shawn came up to adjust the timing aswell,so its running nice (just loud),,maybe a louder exhaust will help drown out the tappets!!!
have to strip back the dodgy paint to deal with surface rust thats under it and a few other bits, im glad i painted the subframe before i sold it to oldgit, its still in good nick, but hopefully be sorting it all out next year

ive been chatting to me dad and he suggest getting the spi roadworthy and just use it as a winter mini so to speak, so i asked if he would pay for the panels,,,he put the phone down on me lol

[Deleted]

Aug 23, 2010 14:01:51 GMT @rizla said:

hank is running great now,,just cant adjust out the tappet noise lol,,,had to adjust the carb just to get it running properly, shawn came up to adjust the timing aswell,so its running nice (just loud),,maybe a louder exhaust will help drown out the tappets!!!
have to strip back the dodgy paint to deal with surface rust thats under it and a few other bits, im glad i painted the subframe before i sold it to oldgit, its still in good nick, but hopefully be sorting it all out next year

ive been chatting to me dad and he suggest getting the spi roadworthy and just use it as a winter mini so to speak, so i asked if he would pay for the panels,,,he put the phone down on me lol

this is how hank looked when i sold him 5yrs ago

and this is what he looks like now


after a bit of work and some new trim

now you see why i want to pull the engine and do it all again

this is the red spi heap i have

[Bean Machine!!!]

I remeber sarah getting him set up by gerald dale after me and tom fitted the stage one so not sure why there would be carb and timing issues.
The engine in the first picture looks remakably like the one in our garage that dad got when sarah bought hank.
Any way
good luck

[Deleted]

yeah i could see the filing gerald did to the needle, but you know how su carbs are 6 months then there out of tune, it probably is the same engine in the garage it had a new stage 1 kit fitted when i sold it, but hey at least this time when i do the work again i wont need to sell it in a hurry and i can actually keep it and use it,

[monkeyjim]

This may be a really stupid question .
Have you actually thought about looking into the rattle?

I dont have to tell you used rocker gear and pushrods are cheap and easy to get hold of. With the tappet chest covers on back of the block the followers are easy to get at and inspect . Even if its followers a set of those new is cheap .

carb or Spi .
Yes the Spi cars do run smoothly but a looked after mini with a well set up carb on a engine in good health should not be a issue .

Lets face it the carb was fitted and worked well for 36years before it was replaced across the Mini range with SPi.

You obviously hanker ( excuse the pun ) for the 1275 .
So just fit that .

[Deleted]

yeah rattle is deffo tappets, i do have a spare lump at the back of the lockup i could use the parts off that i suppose,,,no rush minis not going anywhere with out brakes i actually went round the lockup today and looked at the s disc and servo setup but thats as far as i got just looked lol,,,no rush
im going to do what my dad suggested and keep the red one as a general run around and when the weathers crap lol, then slowly get the beige one to the way i intended in the first place oh the joys of mini ownership (after me swearing i would never buy one again,,,somehow i ended up buying me old one back)
cheers for the help guys

[MiniHaven]

cmon steve use the reliable injection one for runaround in the winter and sort your tappets out ,if you need a hand bang on me door your only up the road mate ,,,,,,,,,rule of nine !

[Deleted]

remembered the rule of nine after you reminded me again,and again and again
sent you a pm
will be keeping the red one to use as a normal runaround

[MiniGT5]

What is the rule of nine

N.