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Penguinracer · Oct 6th, 2004, 12:15 PM

I had the Quaife fitted to my car here in the UK in June '04 (I live in the same town as the Quaife factory so I bought it direct) and NO MACHINING was required - it went straight in. No noise, no vibration - no problems! I bought my Quaife in December '03, so it may be a little different to some of the earlier versions - I don't know.

It may be that the earlier versions of the Quaife were identical to that used in the Focus RS and that later Quaife made some changes for the Mini because of the fitment problems. It's interesting to note that the Quaife part numbers for the Mini & the Focus are the same except that the Mini version has an "M" suffix - QDF38Z1 vs QDF38Z1M.

There's no doubt that it's an expensive and time consuming job. I'd bet on 20 - 24 hours labour to remove the engine, transmission, install the diff (you might as well do the flywheel while you're in there!) and get the whole kit & caboodle together again. May be a mechanic with a lot of mini engine removal experience would be quicker, but my guys hadn't done one before and being used to working on racing Aston Martins and other '60's stuff, they found things fairly fiddly!

Oct 6th, 2004, 12:15 PM	#70
Penguinracer MINI2 Regular Join Date: Sep 2004 Local Time: 07:58 AM Posts: 61 Offline	Quaife Fitment I had the Quaife fitted to my car here in the UK in June '04 (I live in the same town as the Quaife factory so I bought it direct) and NO MACHINING was required - it went straight in. No noise, no vibration - no problems! I bought my Quaife in December '03, so it may be a little different to some of the earlier versions - I don't know. It may be that the earlier versions of the Quaife were identical to that used in the Focus RS and that later Quaife made some changes for the Mini because of the fitment problems. It's interesting to note that the Quaife part numbers for the Mini & the Focus are the same except that the Mini version has an "M" suffix - QDF38Z1 vs QDF38Z1M. There's no doubt that it's an expensive and time consuming job. I'd bet on 20 - 24 hours labour to remove the engine, transmission, install the diff (you might as well do the flywheel while you're in there!) and get the whole kit & caboodle together again. May be a mechanic with a lot of mini engine removal experience would be quicker, but my guys hadn't done one before and being used to working on racing Aston Martins and other '60's stuff, they found things fairly fiddly!