Engine Punk

Following my recent amazement at discovering Ford Modified Anglia Engine head at Adrian Booth's workshop, not only have I been in contact with the owner of such a device (more on that later) but I also stumbled across this illustration of one in a most unexpected place. This is a scan of a black-and-white illustration from Dave Vizard's book, How to modify your Mini. This work was subsequently expanded to embrace all A series engines, whether fitted to a Mini or not, but whereas the later book concentrates purely on the engines, this volume also covers suspension and braking. In terms of modifying Minis, bigger engines have always been popular and in the chapter that I find most appealing a number of big for long stroke Mini engines are proposed. But right at the end of this chapter is an engine transplant involving a kit produced by Richard Longman allowed the fitting of a Ford cross flow engine. A series engines can be enlarged up to 1600cc but this is a very time-consu...