Anyone know??..I seem to remember the motor was a little over 100lbs, and
was (originally?) the Coventry Climax used to drive a fire pump.

Cheers

Nick

Used to get my Imp engine in and out by hand when I was 17 yrs old.
Was a fire engine pumping unit yes.
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John
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John & Lisa (nobody (AT) notachancebobby (DOT) co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying :

Sort of derived from, but after it'd been heavily reworked by the Rootes
engineers it was nowhere near as close to the original Coventry Climax FW
original as the Lotus Elite's was.

http://www.imps4ever.info/tech/fw_imp.html
http://www.imps4ever.info/tech/kuzmicki.html
http://www.imps4ever.info/tech/cov_clim.html

In article <VIWdnTooEcFkajXZRVnyiw (AT) bt (DOT) com>,
Nick <nick.costin1 (AT) btinternet (DOT) com> wrote:
It was loosely based on that engine, but not the same. The fire pump
engine - much modified - was used for racing.

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*I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.

Dave Plowman dave (AT) davenoise (DOT) co.uk London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "John & Lisa"
<nobody (AT) notachancebobby (DOT) co.uk> saying something like:

Motor Industry Myths That Will Never Die.
No 24 in a series of 2000.
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Dave
SE6a

In article <bjfia21m0pob7qku4phg9vh24rj1nbsruj (AT) 4ax (DOT) com>,
Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REMOVE (AT) REMOVEgmail (DOT) com> wrote:
Not quite - it was based on it. Similar design but re-scaled. Bit like A &
B Series BMC engines. Which are actually ripped off from a Bedford wartime
design.

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*Time is fun when you're having flies... Kermit

Dave Plowman dave (AT) davenoise (DOT) co.uk London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

"Grimly Curmudgeon" <grimly4REMOVE (AT) REMOVEgmail (DOT) com> wrote

I agree, it was quite possible to remove an Imp engine single handedly and
when I worked in a Rootes dealership many moons ago we were expected to do
this. We found it easier, if the transaxle was ok, to split the engine and
pull out separately on a cradle we had made to fit on a trolley jack. We
also used to change water pumps in 35 mins with the help of an air gun and
rotoflexies in 15 mins.

Another Dave

In message <4e40b0e95fdave (AT) davenoise (DOT) co.uk>, "Dave Plowman (News)"
<dave (AT) davenoise (DOT) co.uk> writes
The original firepump engine was the FWP (feather weight pump!), this
evolved into a marine engine that never sold, the FWM. An automotive
variant of this was the 750cc FWMA, which was the basis of the Imp
engine.

The 1220cc unit in the original Lotus Elite evolved from the FWP via
another route.
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Chris Morriss

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:27:57 +0100, Chris Morriss
<crsm (AT) oroboros (DOT) demon.co.uk> wrote:
lot of power for its weight but not very reliable if not used frequently.

Richard
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Richard Cole (ispcrco (AT) hotmail (DOT) com.invalid) gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying :

Must be related to the wImp lump, then.