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[RetroRacer21]

Does Simon at Morspeed have a account on here?

so I can give him a quick message?
I cant seem to find a email address on there website.?

[stickycreambun]

erm. for £700 to strip, rebuild engine and box, and refit you'll be lucky! forget morspeed for a start, and forget May as well..

if you stripped it all down yourself, then sent it off you may be able to have it checked and rebuilt for a few hundred somewhere, just the engine. The SC box would be another few hundred, speak to Guessworks. and then fitting it, you be much better off doing it yourself, I imagine a garage would charg a days labour, so maybe £150-£300. plus then all the extras you would need, and setting it up. maybe time for a rethink! or some hunting around, you should be able to find a decent engine for not too much, something like a nice MG 1275 for £200ish.

[RetroRacer21]

erm. for £700 to strip, rebuild engine and box, and refit you'll be lucky! forget morspeed for a start, and forget May as well..

if you stripped it all down yourself, then sent it off you may be able to have it checked and rebuilt for a few hundred somewhere, just the engine. The SC box would be another few hundred, speak to Guessworks. and then fitting it, you be much better off doing it yourself, I imagine a garage would charg a days labour, so maybe £150-£300. plus then all the extras you would need, and setting it up. maybe time for a rethink! or some hunting around, you should be able to find a decent engine for not too much, something like a nice MG 1275 for £200ish.

why is morspeed that bad?

And I have a 1275 GT engine ready to go in.
I have talked to Guessworks about me gearbox.

just need to sort the engine out.

I have booked a week of work start of may to put the engine in.
just need a decent rebuild specialist to do it... otherwise... I just put the engine in and hope for the best

and I dont want that.

[alexcrosse]

yer its gonna cost 700 absolute minimum just for engine out engine in.

Why are you spending all your money on straight cuts if you dont need then? and s/c drops make the noise, and they will be thing ones that actually NEED to be straight cut if you achieve over 100bhp.

What can go wrong putting an engine in yourself, you would have taken one out already. And haynes shows you step by step how to put it back in. Everything you have to check etc etc. Or you will be payin £700 labour minimum.

Get a grand together and another £200 saftey net, then start an overbore project. Take it slow, there might be an engine up for sale or something where you cn just get a cheap block, + size pistons, and rods fitted to them.

wait for holiday leave or something, i ad to do that. Get new front subframe and build as much as you can out the car, loads of ways to go about it, but payin for labours only one of them, and very expensive!

[RetroRacer21]

yer its gonna cost 700 absolute minimum just for engine out engine in.

Why are you spending all your money on straight cuts if you dont need then? and s/c drops make the noise, and they will be thing ones that actually NEED to be straight cut if you achieve over 100bhp.

What can go wrong putting an engine in yourself, you would have taken one out already. And haynes shows you step by step how to put it back in. Everything you have to check etc etc. Or you will be payin £700 labour minimum.

Get a grand together and another £200 saftey net, then start an overbore project. Take it slow, there might be an engine up for sale or something where you cn just get a cheap block, + size pistons, and rods fitted to them.

wait for holiday leave or something, i ad to do that. Get new front subframe and build as much as you can out the car, loads of ways to go about it, but payin for labours only one of them, and very expensive!

no it wont be...

Garage round the corner will do it for about 200-300 from what my uncle said.
but...

After thinking about it, I could spend that money on more bits for the car.


I may get the straight drop gear package on at Guessworks.
John seems nice guy, and maybe best to save the money for his gearbox package.

"Helical A+ gearbox with 3.44 FD, X-pin Diff & SC Drop gears" for £590

and look into either Morspeed or MED to rebuild the engine. for another £500 budget...?

though I'm unsure what I would want to do it?
what should I get for the engine to be looked over and rebuilt? (what new parts?)

I dont mind spending the money on it.
I dont have alot of expenses to pay each month.

(Time scale may push it then come London To Brighton Run )
18th of may would have been nice, (may still can...)

I have booked the week of work before it, so could allways try and fix the engine in there for the show...
and put the 1275 in when I come back?


There's no way I'm taking the front subframe off though, as its fine.
and nothing wrong with it.

(everything on the car was taken off, and painted or put new on, bloke who owned it before me worked on it, in his garage for 5 years)
he just didnt know how to do engines.

[Jordie]

morspeed, M.E.D and all the big engine builders have months waiting lists and completion times, hence someone saying that you had no chance for may.

also i think £500 isnt going to go very far on a rebuild if you dont do any of the work yourself. Pistons, crank grind, bearing shells, labour, gaskets, oil pump, stem seals etc + labour.....

It cost me about £500-700 for my last engine build, thats without s/c drops etc.

[Jammy]

It depends what you classify as '£500 for an engine'. By that do you mean basically the block, crank, pistons and rods? You may get one on that budget in kit form?

[alexcrosse]

im using one of johns boxes, helical, s/c drops, x pin diff, Its nice.

[wolfys_mini]

you cant give advice!

you engine sounds "rough" dude!



morspeed!

[Guess-Works.com]

you cant give advice!

you engine sounds "rough" dude!



morspeed!

Notice he said ENGINE, not gearbox

[alexcrosse]

lol, nah john. Went to dasset hills for a photo shoot, Saw some guys flyin gliders up there i knew n they though my gearbox sounded broken ! lol. I just said "about as far from it as you can get". lol.

[wolfys_mini]

the way he clonks it into gear i can see some teeth missing sometime soon

[alexcrosse]

lol

[RetroRacer21]

If its a big long waiting list for Morspeed and MED.

there's a local garage near me, who my uncle gets stuff done on his Van.
one of there blokes has a friend who rebuilds all there engines for racing.

he's worked on Mini's from what I been told, and would rebuild it for that.
he can do heads, and re-bore's and so on.

I put £500 budget to start... just depends what I really need!?
I think the dude could do it, I'll have to find out what he does and for what price.

If I cant get the engine done for May.
I will just try and fix the 998 in there, and do the engine in the summer.

least I would have time to upgrade it more then.

[alexcrosse]

is this for a complete built engine? thought of building it yourself and just sending the block and head off?