Saxo powered mini.

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the bom project before binky was also a tu engined mini.

in theory its a fairly simple swap, though i dont know exact details, theres a fair few standard metro parts you could use i would imagine as tgey used a tud5 in the 115d.

one thing though I didn't understand was why didn't anyone convert a metro diesel over with the Peugeot petrol engine in. But then again diesel metros are not that common at all, back then.

simple answer.

vvc k-series.

that's what happened, most went vvc k series, with spi and mpi cars.