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I have had my R50 (same color combo as this one- Hyper Blue with Aspen white roof) for 5 years now. It is let down by it's horrible reliability and some cheap plastics on the interior and I have thought about getting rid of it several times. Then I drive it again and just can't bear to part with it. They are just so good to drive!
its so beautiful....
This a late 2006, early 2007 car😊
MG Rover produced its last car on 10th April 2005. The date it was registered does not indicate a car’s actual age.
Me with my 25hp morris
I don’t understand the old v new coil. Was the weaker/old coil 0.8ohms And the new coil is 3ohms Or vice versa? I’m swapping my coil now. And I thought 3ohms was more power. Have I also got this wrong. Help! Lol Thanks
Ohms is a measure of resistance, so the lower the figure, the higher the power. The old one was 3 ohms, so the new more powerful one is the 0.8.
@@TwinCam great thank you! Iv just managed to cancel my 3.0ohm coil. I’ll order a 0.8ohm It says not for ‘points’ did yours have points or electronic? I can update later if need be. Thanks for the reply. This is very helpful for us diy’ers
The lower the resistance the more power.
My car is electronic ignition. All Austin Metro 1.3s from 1987 onwards had electronic ignition. However, 1.0s had points all the way through production I believe.
@@ACDodd I ordered through simonbbc.Com I mentioned this video and your work ac dodd. They knew you straight away👍🏻 So I ordered the 0.8ohms Are you handy with Webber 32/36 carbs. And a bmw m10b20 at all? Or strictly Aseries only Cheers
My first real small hot hatch back was a crx with a gsr out of a integra in it and even at 180-200hp in a go kart frame the crx was it was one of the most fun cars to drive even to this day and ive driven some insane cars
I loved to hoon around in my old Seat Marbella. 40hp and the suspension is so under-developed that you can drive it on the limit without breaking the speed limit. 😂 And driving on the limit is scary, scary is fun and speed is not important for fun.
323i was the best
There wasn’t an E30 323i.
@@TwinCam Yes, you're right, it was the next model usually with a big air dam. E30 was a great car nonetheless.
My dad drove between 1986 and 1998 two mk3 340’s. Last one was a 1988 diesel and he clocked nearly 250.000 km in 10 years. Was actually also the first car i drove after getting my driving license in 1989. Mk3 made an jump upward in building quality, think it became comparable with the celebrated 240 of the same period. You still see them in daily traffic from time to time nowadays in Holland. Especially the CVT and 360 is nowadays sought after as a practical everyday classic while the later 440 is nearly extinct because of corrosion issues…… Would like to have a 340/360 but prices in Holland are rising last couple of years i’ve noticed so i will keep my year 2000 Lancia Kappa saloon on the road for now (thats by the way another misunderstood car, think its an Italian 850 quality wise car that suffered greatly from the bad image of the Lancia brand…)
Twin-Cam you got this review so wrong. Everyone in the comments are disagreeing with you.
Are they? Have you not read the comments or not finished the video, because it’s one of them! On a side note, it’s not a good look to like your own comments.
@@TwinCam i'm 74 years old i'd hardly be liking my own comment. Don't get upset when someone else agree's with someone and likes their comment. Also yes i have read all the comments which is how i knew everyone was disagreeing with you. For you to think otherwise then you quite obviously have not taken the time to read them (snigger)
This was a common middle class car in Malaya in the post war period. I remember seeing the photos of the 1950s Malayan roadblocks with Wolseley Ten in the background.
If this car had had a hatchback it would have been a world beater.
video too long.
Just say you have the attention span of a walnut. Have you ever heard of a concept called television?
@@TwinCam 30 mins to describe one car? please.
@wtfbollos Oh we could be here all day if we went deeper. This is a surface scrape. Either I was right initially in that you have a tiny attention span, or if your latest reply is anything to go by, you’re not really all that interested in cars.
i think there is a squirrel top left 3.10. just saying
50mph...
This video takes me back 40 to 45 years ago when I was racing in the 850 Minicross formula. The technical regulations were seemingly quite restrictive but their phrasing was loose in that "If something is precisely described or illegal then you must follow that while if not described or referenced then total freedom is allowed" whereas these days the emphasis is the other way round "you can do what the technical regulations say you can do but anything else is illegal/banned". I hope my paraphrasing is clear. I am only writing about the engine here, and only in some aspects relative to yours/Mr Dodds video. My engine builder back then was the now well known Dave Mountain. He encouraged creative ideas from his customers and to try them out on his rolling road. On a racer, engine-wise, the only two things that matter are reliability and maximum power BHP at the top of the rev range. My engine was always throttle max open and running between 5000 and 7000 RPM, no interest whatsoever in any other engine situation. This made things very easy as all the engine needed to do was pump maximum air, gas flow was everything. Dave did all the usual engine internal race engine build things while I worked on ancilliary items... 1. Camshafts were specified to be standard with no regrinding and part numbers were quoted in the reg's. However there were very wide factory tolerances in cam lifts so I obtained several by extracting them from dead Minis in scrapyards, then I measured on Vee blocks with a dial gauge and chose the best one. But we could go further... 2. Tech regs specified standard rockers must be used but did not specifically ban modifying them, therefore I could modify them. I experimented with old style pressed steel rockers rather than the later cast(?) items. This was because I would cut the rockers with a hacksaw between the rocker shaft and the pushrod just sufficiently to enable ME to bend them but not so much that the CAMS could bend them with light valve springs. I would then laboriously work along all eight valves and bend the rockers as much as necessary and dummy building and measuring to achieve as close to 290thou" valve lift as I could get on each valve, as the Tech Regs specified - individually optimised max permissible valve lift. Then I would weld the rockers where cut and rebuild the top end with Cooper S outer only valve springs. 3. Tech Regs specified standard distributor and part numbers. They didn't say I couldn't modify it though. Reasoning that fixed spark timing was all that was necessary and with Dave M advising that the advance mechanisms were always wrong and moving about randomly I drilled a small hole through the top and bottom advance mechanism plates and locked them together with a self tapping screw. Very simple. It enabled Dave M to swing the distributor while engine was running flat out on the dyno to achieve max BHP on the dyno's readout. Simple fast totally accurate spark timing for the one flat out driving condition we needed. 4. Tech Regs specified inlet and exhaust manifolds and systems were free but one 1.5" SU carburettor must be used and NO water injection allowed. Also that carb size would be measured by scrutineers using a 1.5" wooden gauge of very slightly over 1.5" size, how much over was not specified, so if the scrutineers wooden plug fitted into the carb then the carb had clearly been opened out... But the Tech Regs writers forgot to disallow other modifications to the carburettor. A square has more area than a circle, so the whole bore of the carburettor can be opened out to a 1.5" squircle and the inlet manifold likewise to smooth the join. If four small areas of the original round bore remain then the carburettor will still be 1.5" and the scrutineers measuring template will report so. Additionally the bridge under the piston can have it's sharp edges removed to reduce turbulence. Then the throttle butterfly can be knife edged where it faces airflow, the throttle spindle can have it's fixing screws removed to reduce turbulence, the throttle spindle can be filed flat to reduce it's thickness to reduce obstruction of airflow, these items are then reassembled and the brass butterfly and spindle can be soldered together and the joint smoothed. One last item is to file a large radius on the bottom of the piston where it faces incoming air, again to remove sharp edges presented to the airflow. We used very thin oil in the piston damper so it would rise and fall faster but actually the piston could have been locked in the up position as no mixture adjustment while running was necessary. 5. We found that crankcase pressure reduces power and tends to push crankcase atmosphere along with oil up past the piston rings into the combustion chambers. To pull a vacum in the crankcase would reduce windage and reduce pollution of the combustible mixture in the combustion chambers. This could be done actively with a pump but we ran a heat resistant pipe from a block breather to a small tube with it's open end facing downwind inserted into the exhaust pipe, the speed of the exhaust gasses pulled the small vacuum we needed. 6. Water injection was forbidden but a cold damp atmosphere could be provided by a water vapour spray from a nozzle positioned near to the carburettor inlet, driven by a small windscreen washer pump. This tended to do the same job as water injection - cooling inlet air and so increasing it's density. All these small things add up and give power advantages over others who don't think or bother... There were many other mods to engine, transmission, suspension, body shell and and brakes to produce a faster car within the loosely written Tech Regs but they are not relevent to your video.
Gay
You sound a bit insecure there 😉
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Cool story, bro. However, the MGB 'remaining today the best-selling sports car of all time'. As of 2024, the year of this upload? No way, José!
So what sold better?
@maunsell24 No, I mean all over the world. Which MX-5 has sold more? There are four generations. In the same way the original Corolla isn’t the same car as the current Corolla, just because it says MX-5 on it, doesn’t mean it’s the same car.
This guy needs to learn how to pronounce DAIMLER !!!
You sound very angry for someone who doesn’t know themselves. Are you suggesting I should pronounce the name of the German company in the manner you pronounce the British company? Because if so, you’re sadly very wrong.
Yes. This car was a silly vanity project that Rover would have been better off without. Rover may have gone out of business anyway but I am its life could have been extended without this car.
Had a 205 Cti 1.6 - was an amazing car to drive - and never once went wrong
Put 100 bhp on two wheels then you are starting to come alive at 10,000rpm. Very soon though, you could be dead..😂🎉😮
Great piece, both in the subject and the presentation. Except, I will probably not describe Lamborghini Miura as "wedgy". Such claim, in accordance with the mention of early 1970s, seems to be more fitting to the succeeding Lamborghini Countach.
What the F is B in the bhp? I get the horse power part, but whats with the b?
But they look 🏳️🌈
Speak for yourself if you’re insecure 🤡
When I was 13 years old (a *very* long time ago!) I bought my first car - a 1953 Fiat 500C. It cost me £50 - a year's worth of lawn mowing pocket money. The car had been hand-painted with a brush in GOLD (a most uncommon car colour in the day), and had faux leopard-skin seat covers and door cards. That pocket rocket lasted me four years, until I was old enough for a driver licence and a bigger car.
My Father was a Senior Toolroom Foreman working for Pressed Steel Fisher at Castle Bromwich. SU were virtually next door to the site so he used to take our cars there to be tuned. Most of the technicians did that by ear and they did a great job. It didn't cost very much either!
Loved the TR7,
At this point, BMW has been away from the days of cars like the E30 for longer than they held those design ideals.
Look americans don't know what fun is. They think life risk is mild entertainment rather than just loving the actual fun things. One reason i call them barbarians. Enjoy your 100hp mini, it sounds rediculously fun.
Nice to listen to specialists
You seem rather excited
I love tbe E-type but I'd take tbe xj,s over anything. In my eyes it's a thing of beauty a d one of tbe greatest designs ns in motor history
Fantastic- thank you. So interesting and informative. Going to dip back into my copy of Haynes How to Tune A series engines…. and dream of fun projects. 🙏
I'm glad it wasn't produced. BL had many sordid ideas back in those days under Michael Edwards. Triumph's TR 7 was a prime example.
There is a better mini than the r53 ……the R52 😉
Great video. AC Dodds knows his stuff. It was interesting to see whilst he was doing the tune up how poor the original factory parts were for the best engine setup and the scope for improvement.
y r all the comments so long 😭
I have a 1977 Lancia Beta HPE for sale if anyone is interested. Barn find, minor rust
Fantastic stuff. This is what KZread should be about! I can remember my life between 17 and 21 was spent trying to workout how my Mini's dizzy and SU worked. In the 80s. It seemed every other early 20s lad was doing the sane thing with their Mini, Moggie or 1100
I’ve bought one !!!!