car came with a med built 1380, omega pistons mildish cam to keep it driveable (266 i think) and a stage 2 big valve head breathing through a hiff44 on i think a minispares inlet with a 
metro manifold, think CR was 10.1, gearbox was and still is unknown, anyways whilst it was nippy it certainly didnt feel like a rocket so lets start simple i thought and went of to get an lcb spent some time lookin at a delorto 45 in the display cabinet at the shop droolin and the guy has to go n offer it to me for 100 quid, sold as well as all the other bits needed to fit it, next stop the local mini breakers for some random bits i needed and he has to tempt me with a stage 3 road race big valve flowed head, u can have that for 75 he says just been rebuilt the engine it was on threw its guys into the gearbox (old story uppin the power without a decent bottom end) so my little manifold swap turned into a snarlin n snortin top end rebuild, spent a while figurin out all the carbs jettin size's n correct stack lengths bolted it all up n hmmm the exhaust aint going to work anymore n no one seems to have kit car exhausts on the shelf, strange that ehh, so one custom exhaust fab later n the car barks jobs a gooden, time to get to a RR and get it set up right, or not, on the drive home from havin the exhaust done the throttle jams wide open look at me maaaaaaa 
. one new throttle cable later takin it easy cause of not been tuned properly yet and it only takes a week before this one jams to :/ what the hell, so i start messing around with throttle linkages and it seems good but then jams up :/ car gets laid up other projects come and go, fast forward 5 years and i feel a need for more £££ in my wallet its got to go so i re-engineer the pedal and cable run, woot, sort the interior and were just about there, just re-engineering the dual 
handbrake cables that seem to be stickin a little and cost 55 quid each +pp (like im payin that).needless to say the last year its been an ongoing slog to get it ready to sell and now im thinking hey this is nice
) i wonder my ol jeep is hittin high miles and is heavy on the wear n tear (goes through tires n brakes like a brown liquid of a shovel)Still needs a RR session, but what would you estimate this to get on the old mpg cruising not pushing it, im kinda expecting real low figures which doesnt really put it into daily driver territory but if a 1300 mini can get a semi decent figure surely 80cc wont make to much of a diff. would be real funny to end up puttin the old head and intake back on after all the time n struggles to get it sorted. (if i could get a semi decent mpg figure this could even end up getting turbo'd off boost cruisin and on boost nutty insane fun, used to love my r5)
