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[mini-luke]

Engine number would start with 12H for a 1275 and 99H for a 998 but it's not a 1275 regardless of what the engine number says, they are only rivited on so easily changed

No.  There are A series 1275s with tappet chest covers, but no A+ ones.  It's a Gold Seal (oddly with a Silver Seal head fitted), what engine number does it carry?

It could just have been painted gold and silver mind

[crf150]

Could it not be an a series engine? And it was painted silver and gold, I have pictures of when it was rebuilt

[Dan]

  If it is a Gold Seal, the engine number isn't anything to do with the standard numbering system, which is why I asked.

[Dan]

It's a 1275, don't worry.  Probably a non Mini sourced block.  One of those new photos makes it obvious (2 core plugs on the rear end of the engine).  To be honest the small, A series water pump pulley and A series head in the first photo made it quite likely, but I don't know enough about old blocks to have known for certain from a photo of the back of one.

 

  And they are HS2s.

Edited by Dan, 18 May 2013 - 09:23 PM.

[crf150]

If it is a Gold Seal, the engine number isn't anything to do with the standard numbering system, which is why I asked.

Gold seal? I can't imagine it being a 998 because it was a lot nippier than my 998 I previously had

[crf150]

How could I tell? Measure bores? Any suggestions?

[Dan]

See above.

 

  Gold Seal engines were Unipart reconditioned service replacements, very high quality rebuilds.  And painted gold.

[crf150]

Ok, thanks, so would you end up sayings it's more likely to be a 1275 or 998, I'm hoping its the 1275:)

[Dan]

I would have said this:

 

It's a 1275, don't worry.  Probably a non Mini sourced block.  One of those new photos makes it obvious (2 core plugs on the rear end of the engine).

 

 

 

  Like I did up there ^^ !

[crf150]

I'm not the brightest today, if you couldn't tell:) thanks for the info on both the carbs and the engine:)

[Dan]

Wait, stop.  Apparently I'm not the brightest today either.  The engine in the second set of photos is a different unit from the one in the first photo you posted.  The engine in the build photos is a 1275 A+, the engine in the first photo you posted is a different gold painted engine that personally I'm still not sure about either way but others might be.  You will have to take more photos when you are next with it.  But if someone sold you that engine telling you it was the one in the build photos then something isn't right.

[crf150]

Why do you suspect that the engine on the pallet is different to the one in the rebuild, I can't see anything noticeable but might be able to once it is pointed out

[mini-luke]

Wait, stop.  Apparently I'm not the brightest today either.

 

Well spotted. The engine in the build pics is a 1275 A+, the ones the op has posted is also an A+, the ribs are a giveaway so it can only be a 998. It's a bit underhand to give the buyer pics of a different engine build that's painted the same

[Alex_B]

The engine in the second set of pictures dont have the same tappet chest covers and the one in pictures doesnt have a mechanical fuel pump, from what I can see anyway 

[crf150]

The engine that is in the photos is the engine that was in the car, unless they had two identical engines, because everything is the same, or what I can see it is