After rebuilding a mg sprite 1275 motor, then looking at some motors produced by Datsun, good god the design of the MG motor makes me not want to drive the car,

After rebuilding a mg sprite 1275 motor, then looking at some motors produced by Datsun, good god the design of the MG motor makes me not want to drive the car, if the timing skips a tooth the piston will hit the cam thats in the block, and then explode (guessing, thats why it was rebuilt in the first place, the old block exploded).. In fact in the classic mini that we will be working on its going to get a honda D-series motor, good ol faithful. American cars are v-8's :p