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[redboy]

Just wondered if the colour of the engine in mini's mean anything.
My uncles currently looking to buy a mini and we looked at one the other day which had a yellow painted engine. He said after we looked at it gold/yellow engines used to be recon engines back in the day.
This was meant to be an original untouched mini so is this the case.
No doubt there was a company that did recon engines and sprayed them yellow but was there original engines that got sprayed yellow ? Ive got a sprite and that's red.

[Robert]

If I remember correctly, the 998 A+ blocks were yellow, the 1275 A+ blocks (pre injection) were red and the injection blocks were black.

I stand to be corrected though.

[samperks]

Through years of vigorous in depth testing it was actually proven as fact that red engine blocks are faster and by painting it red you can add up to 25BHP! Forget stage one kits just paint everything red.

The above statement is Fact.

[IainR]

Back in the day a gold painted engine was a gold seal reconditioned engine - engines that were recomditioned by BMC to the highest standards.

Yellow is an A+ engine.

[Stevee]

Green 850cc engines cooper cooper s

black 998 Pre a +

yellow 998 A+

Red 1275 A & A+

if i remember rightly

Gold and sliver engines are Recons

[Tommyboy12]

Through years of vigorous in depth testing it was actually proven as fact that red engine blocks are faster and by painting it red you can add up to 25BHP! Forget stage one kits just paint everything red.

The above statement is Fact.

Quoted for absolute truth. 112% fact.

[Juju]

Leyland-produced 1275GT engine blocks were black....

[GTIAlex06]

Mines a mixture of yellow and green? Is that any extra bhp

[Guess-Works.com]

Bottom line...

Colour means squat

[mini_mad69]

Anyone can paint an engine, if you think it's special grab the number and look up the code.

I had a goldseal engine in my car (factory re-conditioned) , which came with piston liners. my car had 36,000 miles on it and by 40,000 miles the engine was finished.


It doesn't make too much difference

[AVV IT]

Through years of vigorous in depth testing it was actually proven as fact that red engine blocks are faster and by painting it red you can add up to 25BHP! Forget stage one kits just paint everything red.

The above statement is Fact.

Yes it certainly is & with well documented evidence to prove it too, I know this for certain as a "bloke in the pub" told me!!

[leaky]

1100 engines were blue as well as far as I know.

[liirge]

1100 engines were blue as well as far as I know.

yeah my 1100 had some blue paint on the engine

[Burnard]

Lets face it, they are all black after 10 years of oil leaks and abuse

[samperks]

Mines a mixture of yellow and green? Is that any extra bhp

let me put it this way
yellow and green a series vs a red cardboard cutout of an engine.

the cardboard would win everytime.
why i hear you ask?

Spoiler

Because Red is the colour of Gods!

Through years of vigorous in depth testing it was actually proven as fact that red engine blocks are faster and by painting it red you can add up to 25BHP! Forget stage one kits just paint everything red.

The above statement is Fact.

Yes it certainly is & with well documented evidence to prove it too, I know this for certain as a "bloke in the pub" told me!!

yeah he's a man of facts and truth. like how he told me the world was flat. he then kindly traded me my flat screen tv for some magic beans.
top notch guy