Ratty..... NA to TURBO .....
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link to my TMF thread if your interested

http://www.theminiforum.co.uk/forums/topic/21210-the-rat/

Finished welding the top of the turbo box and dressed off the welds



primed up



sprayed black

Edited by rattydriver on 26th Jun, 2014.

Nice job.

started work on the gearbox, then need to source a few bits for the engine,, rings, MG cam , turbo curve dizzy....... May sell off some of the bits I got for the carb engine update...

Edited by rattydriver on 19th Apr, 2014.

was looking to see how to identify later cams and what was in my motor and found that the MG metro cam that I need has a recessed band after the first lobe.... I remembered a few year ago I had acquired some mini bit from my wifes cousin when he moved house... so I searched through the box and found these



Two Mg Metro cams one very good and one with slight surface rust ...... How about that for luck...

Edited by rattydriver on 22nd Apr, 2014.

went out and fitted an electric kenlowe fan to the engine bay, mounted to the subframe with brackets and to the stiffener bar..





also gave the turbo box another coat of stonechip

Edited by rattydriver on 26th Apr, 2014.

Like the fan, looks good. Have you decided where to fit the boost gauge yet?

May need to make a different clock Cowel, if so I'll include it in that

that turbo box has come out well mate

Yes i moved to the darkside

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Cheers Brett , Nice and deep plenty of clearence

Received the 8mm valve guides this week... and sold my Kent 648 cam for £75 ... so have some money
to spend.. think i'll put the twin SU's on and the contactless dizzy's on aswell

Good idea to sell the unwanted bits, all helps towards the build :). I've got the downpipe in the boot of the car, keep meaning to bring it round for you.

chap who bought the cam may be interested in the dizzy aswell

The box finished... not done much else at the minute

A stone chip covered turbo box might not be the best idea?

There's plenty of clearence . May also fit some heat barrier ..

Bought some heat shield mat and sourced a fuel pressure regulator on Ebay... James brought down the
turbo down pipe today aswell..... Also cleaned the ring grooves on the pistons and fitted the new rings..

Earlier in the week I fitted the cam and crank to the block...

Edited by rattydriver on 16th May, 2014.

pic of the lightened flywheel...

Made a device for locking the flywheel, makes an easy job of undoing or tightening, flywheel, cam and crank pulley nuts

rebuilt the bottom end and painted


covered the turbo box with heat retardant material



My good mate James brought me over some more turbo bits



Sprayed the combustion chambers on the head and marked up ready to grind out

ground out the chambers



ground the inlet ports and ground down the guide pillars



also ground out the exhaust ports

Next job to fit the valve guides and lap the valves in

Heads looking good! Will be interesting to see the cc when you measure them up!

done a bit more work on the head, ground down the guide towers a bit more



Had a look at the valve seats and decided to get them and the valves triple angle cut..

Took the head to Welham engineering who also do work for MED , they quoted £96 for triple angle valve and seat cut including full lapping in...

Edited by rattydriver on 6th Jun, 2014.