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Doctor Drivel wrote:
More ********. Mini engines lasted just as well as any other A series
if serviced by the book

Total tripe! The gearboxes sounded like cans of nails. Your hearing went
years ago

And your reading comprehension has never developed. I said engines. And
given they share the lubricant, any early failure of that would result in
reduced engine life.

Only when the beefier drive shafts on the 1100 came did the Cooper
come about, both in 1962 - using the same shafts. The 850 shafts
could not handle a powerful engine, as many boy-racer DIYers found
out when doing a DIY racing head change - the original shafts could
not handle the extra power.

Sigh. We can add basic engineering knowledge to your long list of
things you know little about. It's torque that kills such components,
not power. And 'tuned' engines rarely increase maximum torque -
especially home modified ones. For that you need to increase the
capacity or use some form of forced induction.

What a plonker. Boy racers regularly burnt out the shafts on 850s.

They 'burnt out' drive shafts? Let's add chemistry to engineering to that
list...

Again, the car would have greatly befitted from synthetic oils and they
were available from ~1969 onwards. Now you know. Repeat all this back
to yourself.

Synthetic *may* have been 'available' from '69 if you worked in an oil
laboratory. But it took some 30 years before they became common.

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