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[Zacherius]

Hey all,

My local Scrappy had an MG MAESTRO 1600 in today. I have the opportunity for all the bits, so wondered if anyone has ever done a conversion with one of these ?!? Or just used the electronic Clocks ( speedo, etc ) in their mini ??

Seeing as its basically an Austin Maestro with a better engine, is it feasable ??

[bebbinator]

you can do it but you need too do a lot of work as the gearbox is different too a mini

[Prawn]

do you mean the engine conversion?

If so, it's not an A-series, so it wont fit at all!

Or are you implying a full on conversion with a custom made front subframe?

If I were going to spend money on making a hybrid, the meastro is possibly the last place I'd ever look for a donor....

Edited by Prawn, 18 January 2009 - 06:12 PM.

[bebbinator]

yea but you can make it fit :)

its the same idea as doing a vaux or a honda engine conversion

PS: miss read the post im not sure if you can make it fit i thaught zak was on about an austin maestro

Edited by bebbinator, 18 January 2009 - 06:17 PM.

[spaceoctagon]

Do you want the talking dashboard aswell?

[Dan]

i thaught zak was on about an austin maestro

He is on about the Austin Maestro. A car that shares almost nothing in common with a Mini. Why do people seem to think that any BL product will share parts with Mini if the name starts with an 'M'? Even Metros have barely anything in common with Minis.

[Guess-Works.com]

I'm sure you could fit it in, but honestly why bother... for probably a lot less effort and a lot more function you'd be better of putting a modern 16v engine in, rather than an antiquated O series engine developed in the 70's

[spaceoctagon]

If its an early model it will have the R-series engine, which was a rework of the old E-series, otherwise it will be the s-series, which evolved from the R-series. O-series engines were only 2.0 litres in the Meastro.

Edited by spaceoctagon, 18 January 2009 - 10:09 PM.

[Guess-Works.com]

either way it's an old engine design

[maph2]

ROFL...maestro....fail

[Dev]

why?

there are so many decent engines out there why use another BL poorly designed product.

i'd rather put a french diesel in before that...

[Zacherius]

It was only cause it was offered to me for FREE I thought i'd pop the question.

Shall not be going there though.... will stick waiting for a 1275 but like the look of some of the made to order engines around.