24 replies to this topic

[Ethel]

The gearbox is pants, but you could possibly get the engine up to decent spec as it evolved into the S Series used in the Montego.

[Rosslin Racing]

its the Maxi gearbox that will take the rover V8 on top? and its also the gears that chapman used in one of his master pieces.

[Guess-Works.com]

No the v8 is usually mounted to the princess gearbox...

If you were to look at the maxi 5 speed, you would notice a rather close similarity to mini 5 speed boxes...just a bit bigger so before anyone asks, no you cant put a maxi 5 speed box on the bottom of a mini, well not without some sort of adpaptor.

Which IMO, are over rated anyway...

[Rosslin Racing]

your right, the princess an even bigger pile of sh...

[benb12]

Fifth gear would be nice... in fourth any more than 55mph and it sounds like you're thrashing it. Would be interesting to see how many revs it is actually doing though. What's exactly bad about the Maxi gearbox?

[M44K TS]

i found my Mini sits more comfortable and quieter at 80 than it does 60-70

[Miniphernalia.co.uk]

[mab01uk]

Maxi 5-speed gearbox above with its terrible early cable gear change which was later re-designed with a rod change but too late the Maxi's reliability reputation was already ruined. Launched in 1969 the Austin Maxi was the first new BL car to be launched and the last car that Alec Issigonis designed as BMC technical director.





‘All the fives’ was the Maxi’s high technology tag line when launched – with a five door hatchback body and five speed gearbox, Austin’s new mid-range fighter really did seem to have it all.
Sadly, the technology might have been there, but the execution was a little less than marvellous, and this avant garde car failed to sell as a result. During its 12-year production run, it did win quite a few friends, though…
http://www.aronline....opment-history/

[Ivor Badger]

Been looking in to upgrading my mini 30's engine to something with a bit more kick and my mate's just heard of a guy who might be getting rid of an old metro with a maxi 1750 engine fitted.

Apparently it's on a metro 1300 sub frame and should be a case of dropping my engine and sub and replacing it with the maxi.
I don't know a lot bout the maxi's but was wondering if anybody could enlighten me on if its that simple or not.

Why would you want to fit a Maxi engine? It was afterall, the worst bit about a Maxi. It wasn't known as the Austin Poxi for nothing.

Edited by Ivor Badger, 09 March 2012 - 01:00 PM.

[Ivor Badger]

its the Maxi gearbox that will take the rover V8 on top? and its also the gears that chapman used in one of his master pieces.

As fiited to the Mk2 Elite, hardly one of Chapmans master pieces. Ok, there is an advantage in an Elan plus 2, but the original Cortina gearbox is hardly a good starting point.