Classics left to die/rotting pics

[Roy C]

andyps said:

The Maestro had a VW derived gearbox in some variants.

Ah, that's the one I was thinking of.

My uncle had a Black Tulip 1750 automatic, then a Draylon-tastic Tara Green 1750 HL manual. My Dad had a Limeflower 1750 manual.

[Iva Barchetta]

That Maxi hasn't been in a field for 30 years.

A certain Ford I left for 3 years started going green (more green) .

There would be no purple left on the Austin by now....

[DickyC]

A mechanic in the village I grew up in fitted a Maxi engine in a Mini. 1972 ish. His struggles included the gear change and he used a Fiat 500 bonnet as the bulge in the Mini bonnet. As he used the 1500 cc engine it was quick but no quicker than contemporary hotted up Minis. To save having agro with the final drive he had Maxi wheels at the front and Mini wheels at the back.

Distinctive.

[RichB]

DickyC said:

...no quicker than contemporary hotted up Minis...

So he could have fitted a 40 DCOE and a PECO exhaust to the existing car instead!

[eccles]

RichB said:

DickyC said:

...no quicker than contemporary hotted up Minis...

So he could have fitted a 40 DCOE and a PECO exhaust to the existing car instead!

No need for the expense of a weber carb, everyone knows one of those cheap chrome pancake filters made your car the fastest thing in town!

[RoverP6B]

The Maxi wasn't the only BL car worth having... Land Rovers, Range Rovers, Jaguars, the Rover P6 and SD1, the Triumph Stag and Dolomite (once sorted out mechanically)... yeah, the All-Aggro and Marina were crap, as was the wedge Princess, but BL cars overall weren't too bad - at least not in design. Build quality was another matter.

[DickyC]

eccles said:

RichB said:

DickyC said:

...no quicker than contemporary hotted up Minis...

So he could have fitted a 40 DCOE and a PECO exhaust to the existing car instead!

No need for the expense of a weber carb, everyone knows one of those cheap chrome pancake filters made your car the fastest thing in town!

As an exercise in mechanical wizardry, fitting a Maxi engine into a Mini was amazing. As a way of getting bonkers performance less so. He left the engine in standard tune and so had 60 to 70 bhp. It was possible to get 100bhp out of an A series possibly sacrificing some reliability. (And the capacity wouldn't have been that different. The E series he used was the 1500 and you could take an A series out to 1400 if you were lucky.) So, he would have had reliability, lazy power and barn loads of understeer. His next project was a Rover V8 in a Marina but that may have been abandoned.

[Stedman]

Page 500? THE END IS NEAR

[RoverP6B]

Why are threads closed at 500 pages?

[gforceg]

Does this mean we're now in the Twilight Zone of the thread? When will Vol 2 arrive?

[Justayellowbadge]

Continued here:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2