1400cc N/A from AUS, 'update 18.6.12'
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Hey,
this is my Rover, I'm located in Sydney Australia where round noses are still more desirable than clubbys. It seems to be the other way round where you guys are. Its not a turbo but its still got plenty of power to have a squirt around town. Its my daily dive and gets a good workout, good to see some great cars on this site!

Cheers,

Bill

1275 Forged Mini Cooper 'S' Rockers
Nitrided Rocker Shaft
Alloy Valve Spring Retainers
Double Valve Springs
Rimflo Stainless Steel Inlet and Exhaust Valves
Head Ported as in Visard Book for 1400cc Specification
MG Metro Turbo Head Gasket
74mm Omega pistons
45mm Side Draft Weber
Lightened, Balanced and Shot Peened Con Rods
Wedged, Lightened and Nitrided Crankshaft
Lightened Flywheel
Orange Clutch Diaphragm with comp clutch plate
MG Metro Turbo Oil Pump
Center oil pick up
Fred Sayer LSD conversion on Mini K 3.66 diff
Belt Drive Timing Belt and Gears
RE13 Cam
Heavy Duty Cam Followers
Polished Pushrods
13 Row oil Cooler
Alloy comp radiator
S/C drop gears
Pulsar electronic distributor
Gemini starter motor
Ford clutch slave cylinder

Edited by bill.b on 18th Jun, 2012.

looking good, that road looks sweet

what bhp is it?

13.95 1/4 mile on a 2.95 fd. Carnt be that hard to beat!

nice looking motor

Done now needs redoing lol

That looks good but what's that stuff in the last two photos ???

It looks like rain..... I didn't think you had any of that over there :)

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

i like this, looks really cool

superb! you have got the mini bug

We have rain just no salt on the roads.

Looks great mate but pull your shorts up !

Haha i had a chuckle at the rain comment. It has just over 70hp at the wheels, not really sure how to convert that to bhp isn't it just the hp at the engine? if so why do people like using this? Ill pull my shorts up for you 'Kean'.

Edited by bill.b on 13th Nov, 2011.

Looks good mate, So do you work for john k then?

I have started posting on Instagram also my name on there is turbomk1golf

Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.

No, just a fan of the work. Big fan of the KAD stuff to however we can't just walk down to the shops and grab what we need! you guys a very lucky over there. Sure we have mini shops but the prices start getting a little steep once you account for shipping and crap like taxs.

Bill

Edited by bill.b on 13th Nov, 2011.

Prices over here are on the up as well mate.

I have started posting on Instagram also my name on there is turbomk1golf

Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.

The other issue we have in OZ is a small number of late model Rovers so we pretty much have to import all the parts. Bill lucked out with this car as its quite rare here and in good shape. We are very much used to trying to track down old parts for our early Australian cars which actually differ quite significantly to the early Brit cars...

On the plus side we tend to make more of a spectacle tearing up the Sydney streets, there aren't alot of them around here!

Here are a few more pics, i wouldn't mind getting rid of the corpse carpet and getting some fresh stuff in. uni is nearly over for the year so ill have plenty of time to do suspension and interior over the break.

cheers,

Bill

yeah but you bailed on us "EX AUS", i can't help but feel this is your own fault........i do understand your pickle none the less.

i cracked my inlet manifold so i thought id fix it and wrap the exhaust while i was there. Keep the bay and everything around it a bit cooler.

Bill

i lost my license speeding so i haven't don't much on it for a while but i got it out and took a few pics with my new camera. Ive been thinking about supercharging it lately but i just wouldn't know what to do with my self, it already pulls like a train now with 115-120hp at the fly.

Oh no when will you get ur license back?

I've heard they are really strict in Aus about speeding.

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

yes its beyond a joke, i was doing 34km/h over in an 80 zone. I lost it for 7 months with a 750$ fine. I've currently served 110 days out of the 210 days so its down hill from here i guess.

Hmm to be fair you were pretty far past the limit but thats a hell of a punishment.

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

oh yeah, i admitted fault straight away however its the fact they treat small scale speeding, 10-15km/h over as worse than killing someone. Its honestly a case of, "i should sell my modified car and start murdering people so the cops will leave me alone".

Looks like a Rover Cooper - how did it get there? Jap import? Thought there was some deal about not being able to register the later Minis here unless a personal import?

On 5th Sep, 2011 Vegard said:
I stand corrected. You should know

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Edited by Scruffy on 18th Jun, 2012.

On 5th Sep, 2011 Vegard said:
I stand corrected. You should know

Its a jap import, in saying that, you can register them if you bring them over and they are younger than a certain age and have intrusion bars in the doors. but I'm about to put carbon doors on it so there goes that rule.