With most of the 1275 and 1100 motors being flogged to death. It’s about time we did a 998 with a difference, a budget build. Let’s start with the bottom end with this build, we will not be using a…
Category: Heads
Well here we go again, the new RE274 cam installed. The cam itself is 274 Duration on the inlet and 270 on the exhaust, but it may come out a few degrees more with the 1.5 Ratio rockers. My Re13…
OK, it’s time to get the motor back on the dyno with a few new bits and see how it stacks up. With a new modified head, again based on a 12G202 head, it has inlet valves of 1.3″ in…
Well I finally got to get this thing on the dyno in it first iteration. Running the 44mm IDF Downdraft weber. See Part 1 Putting on some yellow paint marks on the push rods just to see how they should…
Before reading this, I suggest the reader go back and read Project Small Bore Pt1, Pt2, Pt3 as lot of things in that project are relevant to this project. The beginning of the process of building the 68mm project motor…
There has been alot of talk abut cam followers in the mini (A-series) community of late. So I thought it would be a good idea to go through and explain a few things. When you assemble a motor and wind…
The RE5 Weber Manifold is in stock and ready for sale. I know sometimes it takes time for us to get various products either in stock or machined up for sale. So having that in mind, Russell Engineering is working…
In the last article we chose a manifold based on flow volumes, and a carbie based on personal choice, but which combination is best on this engine? With the engine finished, it is time to look at a variety of…
Last time we started building a small-bore engine for maximum power. But there is no point having a good engine and putting the wrong head on it. I’m going to use the 12G202 head, as these are the best to…
A few years back Russell Engineering built a small bore project motor and wrote an article for The Mini Experience Magazine. Below is part one of the article and in the following weeks we will be posting the next two…
This years Phillip Island saw a wet start to proceedings and qualifying in the rain makes for some fun times. Graham qualified first by more than three sconds to the nearest competitor, but unfortunatly racing was not an option after…
One of the problems with the small bore head when a lot is machines off the face, is they leak or blow the head gasket out the ends. So, this is how to convert a small bore head to an…
Click to enlarge Ok lets take a look at the cylinder head. Here we have three small bore cylinder heads. From left to right we have a AEG295 head (left). This is the performance head for small bores. The second…