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[.998TANGO.]

ive finally started to sort out my 1275 engine for my mini tango. i bought it back in october as a replacment for my 998 as i wanted some more power, it was put in but burnt a litre of oil every day!! so i took it back out and put the 998 back in.

now ive started to stip in down to see what im dealing with, the engine is unkown spec all i know is that its 1275.

im hopping to rebuild it as cheaply as possible, and make it a good reliable road engine with abit of extra poke.

the basic spec at the moment is:

rebore +0.020" to 1293
power max or hepolite high compression pistons
276 cam
fast road distributer
standard head for now
lcb and rc40 exhaust
lightened flywheel
3:1.1 final drive.

heres some pictures so far from when i first got it to the lastest taken this morning.

[liirge]

Hmm this will an interesting build to watch!
Looking at that engine rocker cover and the size of those valves, i would like to guess you might have picked up an MG Metro donor unit, when you get the cam out you can see if its the MG one.

[samsfern]

i have a 1293 with a 256 cam, which if im right is similar to the metro cam, and thats got a lot of lowdown gogo!

On the other hand i had a 1330 with a 276 cam and that was very poky indeed! But am now going up to sw-10 for
that bit of extra oomph! Lol

So i can say that the mgmetro and kent 276 cams are excellent cams and would highly reccomend them for fastroad/trackday use.

if its a mgmetro unit itll be a 3.444 final drive?

Itll be worth fitting a stronger diff pin or whatever it is people do.

Put the engine no up, im sure someone will tell you what the engine came from

Edited by samsernie, 07 March 2010 - 04:57 PM.

[.998TANGO.]

the engine number is 12H354E-H13183 couldnt find anything about it on gessworks.

also measured the valves inlets are 35.6mm exhausts are 29mm.

as for the final drive im not sure when it was on the road it was quite uncomfortable sitting at 60, done a check on gessworks think its a 3.6 but not 100% sure i will count the teeth when i take it out.

the plan for this week is to go around the engineering companies getting prices for the machining work, finish stripping the block and checking it over.

[samsfern]

nice valve sizes then! Are you gooing to get the block refaced at the same time?

[lindy119@school]

looks smart! no ridiculous upgrades then like a super-turboed engine?!!

[.998TANGO.]

nice valve sizes then! Are you gooing to get the block refaced at the same time?

looks smart! no ridiculous upgrades then like a super-turboed engine?!!

yeah i will get the block lightly skimmed as it is looking abit messy and same with the head.

umm there is a little voice in the back of my head shouting supercharger at me but im trying to ignore it at the moment, it can always be added latter on

[lindy119@school]

do it! do it! do it! don't think of the insurance, or the fact that you have no airbags!!

[samsfern]

if your after costs, i paid 80 for the bore work, 40 for skimming head and block, 25 for valve guides supplied and fitted, 25 i think to regrind the valve seat 3 angles, may not be neccesary for you, 40 for cam bearings, supplied and fitted. I paid 60 for bigend and main bearings, and a whopping 80 pound on payen gaskets!

[.998TANGO.]

those prices seem pretty good, last place i went charged £40 for a basic head skim..

i cant decide if its work sending the items to a mini specialist (mra,minispeed etc) or just using a one of the two local companies..

lindy119, stop it everytime i hear it, it sounds like a better idea though my bank balance wouldnt apreciate it much

[.998TANGO.]

small update

took the crank and cam out, number on the end of the cam looks like HR270. hope to order some new bits later in the week once ive checked everything over

[.998TANGO.]

update time!

things have been on hold for a couple of months due low fundage, but know my birthdays looming i can crack on.

since the last update ive had the block, crank and pistons checked over and they are all ok, there is no problems with any of the bores so to save some money im just going to get it honed and keep the original pistons, the crank is fine just need to order some new bearings.
the cylinder head is getting some new valve guides very soon
ive got a piper 270 cam to go in aswell,

at the moment im debating which final drive to go for currently has a 3.6 which wasnt comfortable sitting at main road/motorway speeds i thinking a 3.1 or an mpi 2.7.

hope to have it rebuilt and possibly in by mid june

think thats all for now..

[samsfern]

270 sounds a good road cam.