Al Nicholls immaculate Mini runs a Bill Richards Racing built 1380 supercharged engine – not a common unit by any means! As can be seen from the accompanying photographs the car is immaculately presented and a credit to its owner. The specification of the engine and gearbox is given below:

1380 supercharged engine.
Omega 73.5mm pistons.
Piper 270 modified billet cam crossdrilled.
Wedged, lightened balanced crossdrilled crank.
Lightened and balanced rods.
Ultralight flywheel, backplate and uprated diaphragm.
Vernier adjustable duplex.
Eaton m45 supercharger and modified manifolds.
Bill Richards 36×31 leaded head.
Straight cut close ratio gearbox with 4 pin diff and 3.44 final drive and central oil
pickup.
Straight cut drop gears.

This setup gives 140bhp at 6,000 rpm on Peter Baldwin’s rolling road.