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Thomas & Jack have started Old Red's engine rebuild........this is the only block at 1320 which matched the stock Wosssner forged piston to wall clearance requirement.

Paul and Thomas remembered that this crank has always been in Old Red from day one.........so that must be well over 500 1/4 mile passes 30k road miles and about 6 track days.


 

This was a solid lump of ally yesterday

Unfortunatley when Thomas & Scott got to work this morning they found that the workshop was under water........which you would think is bad enough but then they looked in the dyno pit and found our worst nightmare had happened 29 inches of water




Thankfully Matt & Tour de Force has offered the use of his Superflow rolling road which is about 10-15 mins away.....so business as usual :)

Floof & Brownpants of Rooster Racing fame have been here yesterday and today with there Rotrex powered MINI.........this MINI was a bare galvanised un-sealed shell 18 months ago.



 

Jack has passed the barbecue test even in 0c deg temps


 

Tyre rack finally completed

So 5 days after starting at 1320 Jack got his car on the dyno late Friday afternoon.........Jack will be tuning / re mapping his MINI One with Cooper S running gear himself next week with some of our 550cc Bosch Injectors as the stock 330cc injectors were at 100% duty cycle at 6000rpm and thus the air / fuel ratio was to lean.

We are pleased to announce that Jack Pirondini has started his 2^nd year as an apprentice here at 1320

Jack has already completed his NVQ 1 & 2 back in his hometown of Leeds but really wanted to  further his knowledge of tuning and racing MINIs……..we tried to put him off J but he insisted this is his dream job and was up for the challenge of working at 1320.

Jack already has a huge amount of experience modifying his own MINI One which will add to the http://www.1320.co.uk/topic/21-employee-cars.aspx section

Jack's first Job was to remove the engine & gearbox from this R56 and re-fit it to Old Rattler

I’m sure you’ll join me in wishing him every success for his future @ 1320.

  

We still believe there's some more left on the table :)