Excepting, of course it would have then been outside the class limits (1,300 cc.) for both saloons and rally cars.
Many people tried some amazingly silly things!
Like taking standard mini blocks to 1,700 c.c..
I saw some interesting blocks which would have probably been classed as air-cooled! Some strange shaped con-rods and some amazingly Daliesque pistons...............
The core problems with the whole A series was the three main bearings; the siamesed centre inlet ports and the fairly poor block castings and thin walls.
That's why Ford became supreme. Plus the basic over-square nature of the 105E onwards range, of course.
And later on the cross flow heads.
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