For the guys craving more HP in their cars . . .

[kiwigtx]

I found another 10HP for you

My buddy Cliff has been helping a customer put this old British made Standard 10 back together. Why, I'm not really sure, but she fell in love with it, and has never driven it...and her husband is wheelchair bound. It runs sweetly now ...after many months of sourcing parts.

Here's a quick look at it - taken a few weeks ago while I was working on my A100.

 

[Curiousyellow71]

I hope she can handle all that horsepower.

 

[PLMHEMI]

ZOOM ZOOM.....

 

[Ironbuilt]

The generator looks like it puts out more power than the engine.

 

[greycharger]

Originally an irrigation pump motor, no kidding, and were adapted to fit cars. On an island one can drive across in a day, people didn't need much more than that. They are a three main bearing motor. To build one, you first remove 2 pounds each, from the connecting rods, and take a quarter inch off the head.
I bought a collection of Sprite race cars and parts, and among the parts was a 1275 that made 125 hp, or you could pull the quarter inch spacer from between the head and block, raising compression, and get 165 hp. In 1990, it was an $8,500 motor build including the Weber side draft and intake.
The 165 was kind of iffy, and at Lime Rock there's a spot on the track where it drops off a little bit. The Midgets and Bugeyes will be screaming along and go over that drop, then the ones who don't get off the throttle quick enough go pop, pop, pop and pull over to the side having blown those 3 main bearing motors.

 

[kiwigtx]

Originally an irrigation pump motor, no kidding, and were adapted to fit cars. On an island one can drive across in a day, people didn't need much more than that. They are a three main bearing motor. To build one, you first remove 2 pounds each, from the connecting rods, and take a quarter inch off the head.
I bought a collection of Sprite race cars and parts, and among the parts was a 1275 that made 125 hp, or you could pull the quarter inch spacer from between the head and block, raising compression, and get 165 hp. In 1990, it was an $8,500 motor build including the Weber side draft and intake.
The 165 was kind of iffy, and at Lime Rock there's a spot on the track where it drops off a little bit. The Midgets and Bugeyes will be screaming along and go over that drop, then the ones who don't get off the throttle quick enough go pop, pop, pop and pull over to the side having blown those 3 main bearing motors.

The main reason British cars had such small engines is that they were heavily taxed on the cubic capacity of the engines. So to sell cars, and make the car more accessible to all, the carmakers put smaller engines in them. The British never really got into big inch engines...even now, they extract massive HP from small cubic dimensions.

 

[33 IMP]

A friend of mine told me a few days ago of a lady selling a 1930 American Austin bantam coupe, at a good price. I would have been interested, except I don't think I could get in it. It's a cutie, but about the size of a large gokart with a roof.
(Sold, long before I could get near it, for more than she was asking.)

 

[kiwigtx]

A friend of mine told me a few days ago of a lady selling a 1930 Austin bantam coupe, at a good price. I would have been interested, except I don't think I could get in it. It's a cutie, but about the size of a large gokart with a roof.
(Sold, long before I could get near it, for more than she was asking.)

Those smaller cars have a real cult following

 

[33 IMP]

Those smaller cars have a real cult following

Yeah, I sure would have looked at it, and tried it on. Trouble was, I am in Arizona, the bantam in southern cal, 250 miles away.
This was the second car that I was interested in that got away cause I was too far away. The husband of my friend that told me of the bantam, knew of a decent 65 dart with a v8 and a stick, for $3k. Missed that one too.

 

[Cranky]

No pics of the........car??

 

[kiwigtx]

I can't actually find any pictures of the car in my phone...must have been too busy filming proper cars.
This is what the car should look like....

 

[greycharger]

My favorite LBC is the Metro 6R4, B class rally car. V-6 based on a cut down Rover V-8:

 

[Cranky]

I can't actually find any pictures of the car in my phone...must have been too busy filming proper cars.
This is what the car should look like....

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I most likely would have forgot to put that car on my phone too!!

 

[33 IMP]

Relative of an A40 austin?

Edit: I like A40s (especially as a gasser), I think they are kinda cute, but wow, that thing makes my 62 plymouth look good!

 

[WP29440SE]

oh damn, I could mount that engine in my trunk and use it to run my fuel pump, no one would ever know!

 

[BB BELLA]

I can't actually find any pictures of the car in my phone...must have been too busy filming proper cars.
This is what no car should look like....

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I fixed it for you!

 

[kiwigtx]

I fixed it for you!

 

[kiwigtx]

Relative of an A40 austin?

Edit: I like A40s (especially as a gasser), I think they are kinda cute, but wow, that thing makes my 62 plymouth look good!

My Grandmother had an Austin A30....still to this day cannot figure how she got her fat *** in there.

(Not hers BTW)

 

[greycharger]

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[kiwigtx]

Did you grandmother have a mustache and wear a brown jacket?

Only to go to Church.