Manky Monkey Motors

Must get me one.

id try and get a better system than a N.O.S. mate  :-X :P;D


yakyakyakyak

mind you thats about all id bolt that takky kit to ;D

Looks pretty scary to me, whatever system it's running!
Tell me Critchypoos, how would you go about nitrousing a Reliant? Would the motor take it or end up as a puddle of molten ally?

id go straight to the main man trev at highpower -THE wizard of nos ;)

many moons ago he ran a bond bug as a test vehicle and it ran a 50 kit no problems it dropped the standing quarter from 26 seconds to the low 13's :o

id use a dry kit with a progressive controller shouldnt be a problem kkep an eye on ebay for good second hand kits.... go for the red and blue pulsoid ones new kits are sub £500 ive seen 2nd hand ones go for £200......

have a look on

www.noswizard.com

dont get anything else apart from a wizard of nos kit mate its just not worth it.....

Was he the guy who put a nitrous'd Gixer engine in a Bond Bug?

And some years ago I seem to recall that someone went one better than a nitrous'd Reliant Robin and was running a jet-powered Reliant Kitten.  :o

Many moons ago there was a Reliant Kitten with a Rover V8 engine in Street Machine. They had cardboard covering the windows, don't know why.
I am  a bit pi***d though, just had 4 bottles of beer and most of a bottle of wine so it could all be in my imagination  ;D ;D

not sure mistress wizz... the one i was talking about deffinatly had the 700cc bug motor in though..

one poster on his site forums got a nitrous cozzie engined kitten though  :o :o

Here it is. No cardboard windows though.

I had a Reliant Kitten once. Didn't look like that, though.

i think thats a reliant colt

the kitten was a van


pedant mode off ;D

http://www.beardmorebros.co.uk/website%20pages/reliant_kitten.htm

I thought the Kittens were just 4 wheeled Robins, whether van or saloon. My red trike engine came from a Kitten. They had a different shaped gearstick but not sure why -maybe the engine & box were offset to one side in the chassis?
The V8 was built by John Beardmore & his brother Robin. They were regulars at the big Moggy Minor shows & rallies when I was in the owners' club.
This is taken from their own site.

http://www.beardmorebros.co.uk/index.html

Homepage of the Beardmore brothers' site.
They were well known for building custom Minors back in the 80s/90s as well as a few other projects. Robin had a concours condition Moggy Post Office telephones van with a 2 litre Fiat twin cam engine, one of the first to do that conversion. After it was side-swiped by a coach, writing off one side of the bodywork, he rebuilt it as a pickup with huge sound system in the pick up bed, suicide doors & removable hard top.
There's a piccie somewhere on their site of Russ Smith who owned a bright red Moggy saloon with the same 2 litre conversion. I used to regularly race him to owners club rallies in my 1600 twin cammed pick up. He later became editor of Street Machine -& I'm still a Postie.   

right manky ive been trawling evil bay and theres a cracking little wizard of nos set up for just over £100 at present the guys got a cheap progressive controller too

e bay number 8037276278

I was only asking!
Very tempted though ;) Doubt I'd ever use it but it'd be cool to have it plumbed in! Would the little 40bhp motor survive an injection of NOS?

Oh no it wasn't, 'cause I owned one for two years. Nrrr.

Manky is right, the Kitten was a car and came in two varieties. The saloon looked just like the three wheeler from behind, but the estate had a door that opened to the side and looked like quite a smart little car. There was no such thing as a Reliant Colt, but you might be thinking of the Reliant Fox, which was the four-wheeled pick-up version of the Kitten (and could also come with a camper top), or the Reliant Ant which was a three-wheeler with a van cab and a flat bed or buck.

Wizz
Good On Reliants

iwas thinking of the rebel actually blue but you are right its a kitten

totally off the mark, me ::) ;D