Engine building.

[NoahRobinson07]

I suppose re-buildings/building engines is less common in newer cars but modifying and building engines is something I'm really interested in. Mainly for the Mini .

Anyone had a go? Tips, Tricks, recommended machine shops?

The engine in the Mini is coming out in the next few weeks, So I thought whilst its out, its perfect timing for a new clucth, core plugs, water pump, timing chain, oil pump and general clean up.

I may look at an uprated cam as well, for that little bit more performance.

 

[Russ_16v]

Don't do what I did - a few little tweaks ended up with a 12G295 cooper head, 1.5 roller tip rockers, 286 cam, 1.5 inch su, on and on!

Best thing to do is buy Dave Vizards book - read it, then read it again. Then go have a cup of tea, then read it again

 

[Sam@NP]

Don't do what I did - a few little tweaks ended up with a 12G295 cooper head, 1.5 roller tip rockers, 286 cam, 1.5 inch su, on and on!

Best thing to do is buy Dave Vizards book - read it, then read it again. Then go have a cup of tea, then read it again

This!

First car manual I read at the age of 12!

 

[NoahRobinson07]

I'm about 3/4 way through. I'm a slow reader, have also been watching the Janspeed DIY Mini video's on YouTube from the 90s really detailed. Feature Vizard himself and cooper, and hopkirk

 

[Chri5]

Well as it happens, I have that exact book for sale in the for sale forum

 

[Alex H]

I built an engine once.

Then, some time later....

 

[Sam@NP]

silicon around the sump?

 

[jack_davey]

Don't do what I did - a few little tweaks ended up with a 12G295 cooper head, 1.5 roller tip rockers, 286 cam, 1.5 inch su, on and on!

Best thing to do is buy Dave Vizards book - read it, then read it again. Then go have a cup of tea, then read it again

I used to work for Austec Racing in Crawley, he used to do a fair bit of work with us, very bright chap

LOL at the response with pics above

 

[sven_8t4]

Building Engines is so much fun and gets highly addictive starts small and gets rapidly bigger ... higher CC and bhp

 

[mantis946]

A good workshop manual wouldn't do any harm - Don't think I would have even started the F4R I'm doing at the moment without it. Also a good torque wrench.

 

[Sir_Dave]

This is about my limit tbh, & even then i forgot to put oil the oil in lol ....

 

[Russ_16v]

Claire's sister gave me one of them for Xmas lol, must start building it soon - a bit different to the last engine I built but hey ho, still good fun

 

[Tunst]

Im tempted to buy a spare mini engine for mine and build it up over time

 

[Chri5]

Whats the 5 Cylinder engine above out of? A Volvo of some sort? T5?

 

[Addicted]

This is about my limit tbh, & even then i forgot to put oil the oil in lol ....

Got one of these built on my shelf! As above, only engine I built

 

[Munson]

5 cylinder engines make me hard. They're designed to be fully awesome and nothing else.

 

[sven_8t4]

Whats the 5 Cylinder engine above out of? A Volvo of some sort? T5?

T5r that i built into an V70AWD making it a 265bhp V70 AWD R It was p**n!!! .... an might have had a set of genuine police strobes and siren behind the grill.... loved freaking out BMW/AUDI owners when the cut me up!

 

[Sam@NP]

5 cylinder engines make me hard. They're designed to be fully awesome and nothing else.

50% of a proper engine.

 

[Chip-mk1]

TBASE is a good read.

I used to really enjoy building A Series engines, but havent built one for a long time now as anyone who knows what I look like now will see from these pics of one of the last ones I built, lol

 

[Dan@SJM]

FLOL! I take it you scanned those pictures in as there's no way a digital camera was invented then!

 

[Chip-mk1]

FLOL! I take it you scanned those pictures in as there's no way a digital camera was invented then!

Almost true actually mate!
That digi camera cost me 500 quid and took 8 pictures of that resolution before it was full!
was back in the 1990s!

 

[Dan@SJM]

FLOL. I was still in single figure age then.

 

[Chip-mk1]

I was programming power station main control computers. The servers were 50,000 quid each and had 2*500 meg processors and a gig of ram. They were therefore far less powerful than a 50 quid entry level smartphone now. Flol.

Funny how times change.

 

[Darren S]

This is about my limit tbh, & even then i forgot to put oil the oil in lol ....

Got one of these myself for a Xmas present too. How self-righteous and smug did I feel when I got in touch with the manufacturer and said "...one of my valve-springs appears to be missing from my engine". It was almost like I knew what I was talking about. Unless they can run on 7 springs?

D.