…After some quick overnight welding…

The dash tray patched and nice and flat

A little more touch-up and paint and I can begin to install the wiring harness.

Oh, here’s the Dyno readout from the Mini Mania Nevada City adventure a couple of years ago. For an engine this size to hold peak torque and HP numbers like this is remarkable. These are at the wheels real numbers on a 95 degree day when no other streetable non v-tech Mini bettered about 55 BHP. The engine had no miles on it! I’d run it on the test stand at MM, installed it and driven from home on the battery… no electrical system at all other than a few alligator clips to power the fuel pump and ignition. Don thought I was a little crazy to repeatedly run it up to 7000 revs, but I thought it would be spectacular either way!

The Dyno readout of the current engine configuration

I suspect that a little more tuning will actually pull that flat spot up resulting in  higher peak numbers. Perhaps having the alternator actually charging so the ignition isn’t running off the battery under such load! Maybe I’ll flog it again this year at Mini Mania’s Nevada City Adventure… I have until June!