Racing Midas

[markhope39]

Hi all!
I last had a Midas Mk3 Gold back in 1985 (i think it was) I bought the kit from Harold and ran the car for a couple of years. Jonspeed did most of the mechanical for me and fitted a 1293 stage 3 engine. Thanks Jon. I seem to remember the registration as Q660 GRW but that was 25 years ago.
So now I'm going to buy another one and make a race car from it. Reading all of the posts on engine conversions, bike engined FWD is the way i'll go. The weight saving alone makes a great case. I'm bored with saloon car racing and i've hankered for a Midas for the last 3 years. So here we go
And I hope to meet members of the club over the summer!

Cheers

Mark

[manifold]

Welcome to the forum Mark.

Look forward to seeing a bike engined Midas. I have had a hankering for an R1 front wheel drive one for a while. I reckon it would be great in a Mk3. Promotive do a nice conversion for the mini and I bet a metro subframed one wouldnt be any more harder to sort out and will surely fit under a standard bonnet too.

KAD did a fwd on a mini. Its up on the 16v mini forum. The engineering is pretty great, looking at the photos.

All the best,

David