Project JetBLICK by JetBLICK

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Well, not so much an update as a rant Heres my story.......

I had it all planned out - i found a 970 crank, and 73.5mm cosworth pistons. Then i did some research and found u can fit a cooper s crank in a non-'S' block by just skimming 16thou off the thrust washers. Toped off with a nice big valve head and some split weber 45's i saw on the 'bay, and some whining straight cut drops, with my close ratio 'box. Power would have come frome the lairest cam i could get my greasy mits on. This ebay special of an engine was gonna be another budget screamer, but the best bit was that it would have been 1050cc!! same cc as Pies, tho completly different internaly. It would have been a screamer, but it depended on one thing.... con rods. I looked about before hand and found minispeed where selling them at £100 for a SET!! i was baffled and called them up immediately to check that it was correct. The friendly chap on the phone confirmed that was the price for a set of 4. That was it i'd made my mind up, this engine is MINE!!

I e-mailed the guy with the crank to say i wanted it and waited....... and waited....... and waited......

Meanwhile my i told my mate and he couldnt believe the price of the rods, so, i looked em up again on the minispeed site and was shocked with what i saw............ THEY'D CHANGED THE PRICES!! the rods have now changed to £91 EACH - 'each' now being in big letters

So now my life is over well... not quite lol, but im absolutely gutted, I'm not paying £400 for a set of conrods. So unless i find a set of 970 rods very soon, its back to looking for that all important 1071 - gutted!!  

Soz, i just had to let it out.....

On a different subject, any locals going to the redditch moc party at detroitwich rugby ground on june 30th? its only, like £4, for camping, could be a rite laff - and its only a mile or so down my road, so i'm sure the mini could get ther without breaking down (having said that, it never made it to malvern before ) Or if the mini aint done i mite even walk it haha