benofbrum wrote:Alan D. wrote:Geoff Butcher wrote:£350!! Mine cost ninety-something built up and about fifty quid for the other bits and bobs...
Thanks Geoff, If I could have got one for £150 I would have bought one. But £350 is what is coming up on the search engines. If anyone knows of a cheaper source I would be happy to know about it. What about electronic distributers, are they worth considering? I just need to cure the misfire, it's a good engine apart from the miss!I think my next purchase in a couple of weeks will be about £200 worth of Dynamat sound proofing. I'm going to try and make a civilised Midas!
Alan
About half a century ago I tuned a 998 cooper generally following the advice of Clive Trickey and David Visard as published in Car & Car Conversions Plus a few embellishments of my own. The distributor was the standard one with Cooper S points and advance springs. It did not misfire up to an indicated 8000rpm. Only went that high once, but up to 7500 from time to time. I believe the engine is still in the Minijem Estate which found a new owner just before Stoneleigh last year.
Thanks for the comments, Minijem Estate!! do you have any pictures?
Alan