(Eyes glaze over as I gaze off into the distant past..........)
Many years ago when I had my mini, not my first car but a subsiquent one, I was stationed in Edinburgh.
the car was a 1380, longman stage 3 head, 1.5 roller rockers, 286 kent megadyne cam, luminition, 3-1
manifold, RC40 exhaust, webber 45 DCOE, oil cooler, 4 core radiator, through a Jack Knight S/C gearbox,
she kicked out @ 115 bhp. You can laugh, but thats alot of grunt from 5 port A series engine. I was
at the lights on Princes street and an old Skoda Estella pulled up next to me, all stickered up rally style
withn a susipciously lumpy tickover. I smuggley looked over and gunned the mini, the RC40 ripped,
The dude in the skoda gunned his engine and it sounded awesome! Lights went green, I dropped the
Clutch, was subsiquently smoked by the skoda, who was at the next set of lights before I gripped second
gear.
Moral of the story..... Never judge a book by its cover!
Callum W