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| 1025.1 | Was it Green | VANISH::LINCOLN | The sun has got his hat on | Tue Apr 17 1990 14:14 | 3 |
| I think they were a shade of green, but I'm no authority.
-John
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| 1025.2 | Dull, almost khaki-ish, green | IOSG::MARSHALL | | Tue Apr 17 1990 14:33 | 4 |
| Well, I remember seeing one that colour, can't say if it's original though.
Try MG or mini owner's clubs, they should know!
Scott
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| 1025.3 | A long time back.... | HAMPS::WILSON_D | string | Tue Apr 17 1990 16:01 | 4 |
| At one time all BMC engines which were recon by BMC were painted
gold.
DejW
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| 1025.4 | Ah, those were the days... | DOOZER::JENKINS | Road trip! | Tue Apr 17 1990 19:03 | 41 |
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You asked about the 998 Cooper engine. I've no real experience of
this one as my interest used to be in A-series engines that would
fit in Morris Minors, eg, 803,948,1098,1275 (and 1800 B engines!)
The engines coming from, Minors, Midgets, Marinas and the cylinder
heads from those cars and other transverse derivatives.
For info, these are my recollections....
Rocker box cover should be matt green, a shade lighter than BRG.
Sump cover and back plate (visible parts) were the same colour.
Starter motor black.
Oil filter holder green.
Visible parts of the cylinder head were either green, matt black
or bare metal depending on the model of the head.
Cylinder block was also either green, matt black or bare metal
again depending on model.
Gearbox was as far as I remember never painted, it was left as
unpolished alloy.
The gold seal engines (so called because they were painted a horrible
gold colour), were sprayed after they had been assembled, with just
rags stuffed into orifices that mattered. This meant that things
like the oil filler cap were covered in gold paint which would fall
off in bits, usually into the oil, when the cap was removed.
Somewhere on the ouside of these engines, perhaps where the engine
number was, (or perhaps there was a code in the engine number itself)
you could work out the size of "oversize" pistons fitted, and how
many thou' had been removed from the crank if it had been reground.
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| 1025.5 | Renting spares kits... | BONNET::MARTIN | The Corporate Rat - 828 6236 | Tue Apr 17 1990 19:41 | 7 |
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Richard,
I never realized that you looked under bonnets of former AVIS
rent-a-dent mobiles ?
Rat :-)
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| 1025.6 | input thankfully received | MINNY::MITEVSKI | A 'Special' day | Wed Apr 18 1990 11:53 | 9 |
| Thanks for your input. It seems that I will have to get some green and
black color for that job.
I will also check with the Mini owners club (thanks for the suggestion)
if there were specialties with Cooper engines.
Goran_who_hates_this_cheap_gold_look
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| 1025.7 | | VANILA::LINCOLN | The sun has got his hat on | Wed Apr 18 1990 15:31 | 10 |
| Incidentally, my previous restoring experience suggests that
the commonly obtainable "Humbrol Enamel" is a good paint for
engines. Good range of colours and withstands the heat etc.
We used to use it on Lotus engines because the Dove Grey that
they used wasn't available as an "Engine Paint".
Didn't "Gold Seal" engines fall into disrepute when any Tom,
Dick or Harry who "did up" engines started doing them gold.
-John
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| 1025.8 | more info please | REPAIR::TAYLOR | Das mien Holsten Pils | Thu Jun 28 1990 17:11 | 6 |
| Did anyone find out what the colour scheme meant exactly?
Ive just got an A-series which is black whith a green cylinder
head, does this mean its been ported, gas flowed or what?
...dom
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| 1025.9 | | OVAL::ALFORDJ | Ice a speciality | Thu Jun 28 1990 20:40 | 4 |
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doesn't that mean that it's a recon engine ?
...or was that gold...
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| 1025.10 | check the engine number | RUTILE::SMITH_A | No-one puts baby in the corner | Thu Jun 28 1990 20:48 | 9 |
| As far as i remember A-series engines were all green (head and block,
any size)
BLMC also did guarenteed re-con' engines painted gold - hence 'Gold
Seal' engines. Unfortunately, unscrupulous (sp) re-conditioners
also sprayed their engines gold if they thought they could get away
with !
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| 1025.11 | | ANNECY::MATTHEWS | M+M Enterprises. Thats the CATCH | Fri Jun 29 1990 12:06 | 9 |
| One of the previous replies gives all the possible colour
combinations, but I don't think that the colours relate to
modifications to the engine, just the type of car that the
engine ended up in.
For instance, the A series engine in the MG was usually black.
The standard Mini was usually green.
Mark
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| 1025.12 | Colouring by numbers | DOOZER::JENKINS | | Fri Jun 29 1990 16:44 | 24 |
|
.11 is correct.
Colours depended on:
- engine size 803/948/1098/850/998/1071/1275
(and a 1293 standard prodution)?
- the BL car it was to be used in (to name but a few) eg.
Morris Minor/1000/Traveller and derivatives
Minis/Coopers/etc
Riley Elfs/Wolsey Hornetts
1100s
1300s
MG/VDP derivatives
Marinas
Midgets
Metros
Spans over forty years and may even make fifty.
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