Welcome to TMF! Nice car, love the wing mirrors!
Thanks, the passenger one just shows me what paint I've got on the door, but I'm digging the blue with white theme.
but thats a different engine block? Look at the oil filter :S
Yeah, like I said, ours are a little bit different. Essentially the same. I stand corrected but I think all our mini blocks have the oil filter like that. There are a few little differences, like our subframe mounts are
all the non-rubber type. Definitely a mini block though. Old cars in SA have a very scetchy paper trail. My engine number tag is missing but at some point an engine number was stamped where the tag used to be. So no one is 100% sure what it is
. The local mini fundis recon it's possible a SA gts unit (the head is at least).
how much clearance is there on the weber from the bulkhead and the bonnet ? i'm thinking of getting a down draft 28/36 dcd too but worried about clearance
This might help
Ignore the wire and tape mess (busy sorting that out) and the DIY accelerator spindle. I think it will depend on your inlet manifold, mine has a very low lip that the carb sits on. Bulkhead clearance is ok, but you'll need short screwdrivers for air and idle tuning. Bonnet clearance is very close, my filter is a short one and the two nuts on top that hold it had to be cut a bit as they had a domed shaped top. If you get a low manifold and use regular flat nuts it will clear... just. Or go the bonnet air scoop route.
Note with the dcd, it always needs the choke until the engine gets warm, you can drive perfectly without it, but it won't idle at the lights when cold with no choke, also the choke is not progressive (mine isn't at least, maybe newer ones are), it's either on or off. So when the engine is only slightly warm it will idle high, but if you put the choke in again it will stall. So cold mornings with immediate traffic are not fun. I reckon a good 10 min to properly warm up. A cold engine with the choke out with a dcd has a nice slow racing car chug, sounds like it has a heavy cam
Really light on petrol on partial throttle, but when you floor it and open up both barrels you can actually see the fuel needle dropping. Sweet sound though. And when it eventually warms you can really feel the step when both barrels open. Vizard's yellow bible has a nice guide on getting the right tubes.
Edited by FerritZA, 05 August 2012 - 08:43 PM.
). So got myself one a few months ago. I'm down in sunny South Africa - Cape Town. Joined the local mini club, MOCKZN, but you can never have too much info 
