Jaguar XK100 Engine in a Classic Mini?

Jaguar XK100 Engine in a Classic Mini?

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MikeE

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1,851 posts

299 months

Tuesday 7th May 2024
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Turbobanana

7,236 posts

216 months

Tuesday 7th May 2024
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Link to article written by someone on here, I believe.

The Two Litre Mini

Risonax

426 posts

31 months

Wednesday 8th May 2024
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https://twiniminis.com/

620AXE used a Ford block and a modified Jaguar head.







david.h

433 posts

263 months

Wednesday 8th May 2024
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Wow!

Lotobear

7,979 posts

143 months

Wednesday 8th May 2024
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Interesting but seems a lot of work when the transverse Lotus TC Mini conversion was the simpler route back in the day

lukeharding

3,135 posts

104 months

Wednesday 8th May 2024
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That is full on brilliant

Retro_Jim

492 posts

66 months

Thursday 9th May 2024
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That's a lot of work! Also 85mm pistons in the 120E block is the absolute maximum with many not lasting very long so he must have found a decent casting or knew how to get his hands on more!

21st Century Man

42,350 posts

263 months

Thursday 9th May 2024
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Reminds me of that six cylinder MG Metro at Gaydon, but one has to ask why? What's the point in a small fwd car?

rallycross

13,534 posts

252 months

Thursday 9th May 2024
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Retro_Jim said:
That's a lot of work! Also 85mm pistons in the 120E block is the absolute maximum with many not lasting very long so he must have found a decent casting or knew how to get his hands on more!
He was an engineering legend I remember my dad having an Allen crank in one of his race engines and it was a big deal to have one of the great man’s crankshafts in your engine.

Those twin engined minis must have been tricky to drive ?

Lotobear

7,979 posts

143 months

Friday 10th May 2024
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rallycross said:
Retro_Jim said:
That's a lot of work! Also 85mm pistons in the 120E block is the absolute maximum with many not lasting very long so he must have found a decent casting or knew how to get his hands on more!
He was an engineering legend I remember my dad having an Allen crank in one of his race engines and it was a big deal to have one of the great man’s crankshafts in your engine.

Those twin engined minis must have been tricky to drive ?
Indeed, John Cooper was nearly killed in (by) the original A series powered 'twini'

aeropilot

38,305 posts

242 months

Friday 10th May 2024
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21st Century Man said:
Reminds me of that six cylinder MG Metro at Gaydon, but one has to ask why? What's the point in a small fwd car?
Because you can....... smile

Honda and Benelli put a straight six in a motorbike, so a small car is nothing laugh


Bobupndown

2,532 posts

58 months

Friday 10th May 2024
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aeropilot said:
Because you can....... smile

Honda and Benelli put a straight six in a motorbike, so a small car is nothing laugh
Saw a beautiful CBX1000 in candy red this evening, unfortunately going in the opposite direction.

Mikebentley

7,362 posts

155 months

Saturday 11th May 2024
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I’ve posted this before, I met a garage owner in Wolverhampton in 2020called Niel who has some interesting creations, XJ6 Pick up etc. When he realised I had an interest in old/unusual cars he took me into an old Victorian outbuilding and showed me his Mini pickup (1968/9). It was fitted with an A series Twin Cam engine. The story went that he knew a scrap merchant who was tasked by Austin to dispose of unwanted metals for destruction in the 1970s. He had seen the engine and sold it to Niel instead of destroying it.

I think he said it was about 100bhp.

grumpy52

5,832 posts

181 months

Monday 13th May 2024
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I believe that senior member Low drag of this parish owns a prototype XK 4 cylinder engine.
My good friend has a sales brochure of the still born XK100 . Having access to any manufacturers development department scrap bin often yields interesting stuff.
My MK1 cavalier benefitted from several parts from the scrap shelves at the Millbrook test site.

tapkaJohnD

1,998 posts

219 months

Monday 13th May 2024
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Project Binkie put the entire engine, transmission and suspension of a Toyota Celica GT-4 into a Mini, with the objective of keeping the exterior appearance unchanged. No Carbs sticking out through the grille there!

It took ten years and nearly forty videos on Youtube but they got therhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hCPODjJO7s&list=PLGSOZAHg1yQHU1tc_3Y5MTQg1qjtxA_nqe:

Lotobear

7,979 posts

143 months

Monday 13th May 2024
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There's not much new - I once had a passenger ride in my friend's classic Mini Type R conversion which was mapped to 240bhp. It was scary fast but tame tootling about.

You would never guess that the front end had been extended 100mm to make it all fit - used a Metro front subbie and 4 pots discs brakes and ran on 14" wheels. Diff was a custom made item and chattered like mad.

Not this one but exactly the same principle. Outwardly save for large wheels and arches the unitiated would never know.


Mikebentley

7,362 posts

155 months

Monday 13th May 2024
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The Vtec conversion with the 100mm lengthened front end is quite common.