Both Keith Calver and Keith Dodd have fitted the Mini Spares kit to their 1000cc cars. Keith Calver was involved in getting the ignitions and needle settings correct at Peter Baldwin’s (Marshalls) rolling road in Cambridge.
Many people already have some of the parts on their car without know how close they are to extra power. The parts required are the original Competition Silencers exhaust RC40, Mini Spares special inlet manifold, Maniflow freeflow exhaust manifold... Read more
For years people have complained that the Mini required a fifth gear. Although many years ago the idea was tackled by Felday, Coletti Francis and Jack Knight, these gearboxes suffered through being either too complex to make, awkward gear changing or poor reliability. Read more
The front brakes are standard Cooper 'S' 71/2" variety with the standard drums on the rear, with the assistance of a servo the rear regulator valve has been left out of the system and the brakes work very well. As the weight of the second engine amounts to the equivalent of two 11 1/2 stone passengers. Rear cooling is taken care of using a 1300 radiator mounted in the standard position. The heater take offs are connected to a 19 row oil cooler. Read more
The car was originally built in 1982 as a tub car to SCCA GT5 rules and since then it has gone through many transformations. In 1988 the Mini gained a full space frame chassis. The original design was achieved by building full scale cardboard mock-ups and running them through their range, changing the templates or mounting points until the optimum was achieved and although this method was a little primitive in today’s world of computers, it worked! Read more
Our customers car is a 1962 Austin Mini, which originally cost £250.00 and now looks absolutely standard
and truly immaculate. Only when you look inside do you realise it is a car with a difference.
Richard has already restored two Coopers to a very high standard and his criterior on the Twini was to use
as many secondhand production car parts as possible to keep the cost down.
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When most folk talk about limited slip differentials for the Mini, minds immediately turn to the name "Salisbury". Indeed many think that word covers any LSD for the Mini. This, of course, is not so. The Salisbury diff was designed in the 50's at a time when race cars were not sophisticated, tyres were usually cross-ply with limiting grip due to poor compounds, and tracks were more than "a little bumpy". Read more
Fitment of our new hi-performance, road weight, steel flywheel is the equivalent of shedding around 100lb of total car weight – that is one small person! Read more
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