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[mab01uk]

Reverse engineered Cooper S Engine Blocks...

Edited by mab01uk, 21 May 2021 - 05:20 PM.

[mini-geek]

I'm guessing these will be many many pounds..

[rally1380]

Ebay prices of knackered old examples have just plummeted whilst the rich boys who race wait to get their (well, I mean their engine builders!) grubby little hands on these. 

[Midas Mk1]

Dated 2013, and look just like renders to me ATM.

[mab01uk]

Minispares are reported to be working on producing A-series cylinder blocks and have already produced 5-port alloy cylinder heads (as well as 8-port).......

HEAD UNLEADED 5 PORT 940 ALLOY ROAD / RALLY:-

https://www.minispar...CE.aspx|Back to

Edited by mab01uk, 20 January 2017 - 12:43 PM.

[nicklouse]

Reverse engineered Cooper S Engine Blocks mentioned here...
http://www.department75.com/

 

a flash website not viewable on apple products just incase anyone else just gets a black screen.

 

Poor.

[1293gt]

Dated 2013, and look just like renders to me ATM.

It does say "newly drawn block".

[mini13]

some interesting info here.

 

http://mk1-forum.net...=17932&start=20

[mab01uk]

Quote from Mk1 Forum:-

"Patterns have been made & a couple of test castings have been poured, but other more profitable ventures are currently taking priority."

[Cooperman]

The only people who would buy new 'S' blocks are those who use their cars for real competition and have to comply with specific regulations, and those doing 'log-book' 'S' rebuilds into ordinary Mk.1 or Mk.2 shells and need a genuine 'S' engine to provide credibility and originality. Existing S-owners will simply re-bore and sleeve their blocks when necessary. It is out-and-out competition which 'kills' blocks and for those who do race in FIA Group 2 specification a £15,000 fully prepared 130 bhp 'S' engine is not an issue if it is needed, but they are few in number.

Once you have bought the block you would also need a forged steel (or billet steel) crank plus rods and pistons, etc.

Now how many are going to pay that for a road/show car? You work out what that would cost.

I'm just pleased that I have a complete spare 'S' engine, all in bits, should I need it for my 'S'. 

[ACDodd]

This is very real and I have been involved in the project. These things take time and lots and lots of money.........

 

AC

[Tupers]

I'm surprised no one has taken a project like this to the USA. There are multiple companies over there reproducing old V8 blocks so it seems like an A-series lump would be relatively simple.

[Van13]

I will be buying a few of these for my vans if it gets of the ground

[mini13]

another use for this block would be to enable use of roller cams, if you were so inclined to go down that route.

[Ivor Badger]

I await to see the cost. A similar project was done in the 1980s for prewar Aston Martin blocks. it allowed people to build a new engine and race it with the original safe in the garage to return the car to complete originality. Fortunaely making thesev things is a bit simpler now. The Aston block had to be measured and then the pattern size worked out mathematically 3 diemensionally to pattern size. Now it's stick it in the computer and press the button. The Aston cost was £1500 each in the 1980s.