Many of you will hopefully by now know of A-Series Spares through the Traders section, we are really pleased with all of the support and positive feedback received since setting up the shop in 2010. I thought it might be nice for introduce you to the other side of the business which has been running much longer.
In the pictures and text below you will see a walk through of our own current project, this project will be completed this week ready for a promotional event we are taking part in at Mallory Park next Friday (22nd).
To give you a brief history of the vehicle, this Morris Minor is one of the test vehicles used to create and demo many of the products that we build in the workshops.. we like to play and we hope you enjoy the project.
The project begins...
Starting to strip the 1330cc engine...
This Cam is the Swiftune SW5. For road applications this has been a fantastic camshaft, we found it seemed to hit a wall at around 5500 revs but it was incredible for torque and gave great performance and fuel return.
A nice thing about playing with the Morris Minor is the ease of fitting in different gearboxes... this is the Ford 5 Speed (type 9)
Now this picture may be lost on some of you, but the Morris Minor has a massive, heavy rear bumper (as standard) we have slimmed it down with lite-weight alluminium
The standard mastercylinder for the brakes is located in the chassis rail on the Morris, we decided to take this opportunity to engineer a remote based system for both the brakes and the clutch (you will see the clutch further down)
Here you see the clutch master cylinder, building this into the gearbox cross member allows the clutch and brake lines to run in parallel
This alteration is needed to allow for the Weber DCOE and Filter
Strengthened front end, adapted to accept towing eye on track days
Primed
Painted
Custom made front wishbone with strengthened support for coil over.
Coil pack and Edis Unit re-fitted
Manufacturing the Clutch and Brake reservoir cradle
Rough cradle made for trial fit
Aluminum, Engine Back Plate
We built this up last week, Weber 45 DCOE with Twin Throttle, mounted on Maniflow manifold.
Body work nearly finished. A-SD Sports-Pack Wing Extensions looking Fab!
There will be more updates this week, we are hoping to have the engine firing up over the weekend but we are flat our with customer vehicles at the moment too so fingers crossed.
Thank you for looking through our project.
Any questions please ask.
Rob
