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Thanks Pat!
Great to hear from you.
Yeah on the Healey 3000’s!
My MG actually has SU carbs and I like them a lot.
Ive taught myself how to tune them but have not rebuilt them yet but have the kits.
So far I’m having a blast w/the lil booger!
Lucas smoke in a jar! Love it.
Hope you are well my friend.
BTW, I now have an 8 that I am collecting parts for ��
[QUOTE=Li'l Toy; Light weight and good handling--the Miata is the genetic successor to these cars, and look how successful it has been. My son Matt and I autocrossed and did HPDE's in his '99 for years, great fun.[/QUOTE]
I am on my 4th Miata as a daily driver. I put 150,000-175,000 miles on them and then get another
Gary--Have you seen what Healey 3000's go for today? I could have had one for $1200, instead ended up with a '65 VW Bug for $500. But I put in spacers to widen the track, Koni shocks and those weird tires that everyone though were gong flat--new fangled Michelin "radials."
I am afraid I ran out of patience with the 300 OMC. Tired of it always being an issue whether it would start, and if it did would it keep running. While I was doing a few little things on the boat before buying a more modern motor, Matt rebuilt the transom (it is a tremendous job) but life intervened before he could finish the core. 4 years later I am just getting to finishing that and then will look for a motor.
Edit--guess I should change my signature :)
cool cars, always liked the leg room inthe MGB , being '6.3' I could stretch out out in the passenger seat and still have room. the midget was pretty ill handling as it wanted to swap ends on quick turns at speed. damn near flipped one at about 60.
I had a friend in high school that had a hot rod bug and it ran and handled great.
I had a ‘69 square back that I loved.
Dont feel bad about giving up on the 8.
You just about have to be a mechanic to own one these days.
The new motors are amazing.
Even the “newer”.
Id love to have a pair of 300XS’s on my Checkmate.
Your boat is/will be again, a museum piece, no matter power.
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I had a 1972 MGB-GT in the late 70's after the gas shortage. It replaced a 442. My first intro into cars that actually have good handling. Moved on to Porsches later in life. Had several street 911's and a 914-6 race car. I am now doing a nut and bolt resto-mod to a 1974 914 2.0 that I have had since 1980. Added 911S suspension, brakes and rotors and a 964 3.6L six. I welded on steel 916 flares and sent if off for paint and new interior. Almost complete.
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Baddd Asss!
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Had some Gary time before going back to work.
Total rebuild on both carbs and $10, home made ram air system.
Oh yeah, ported the intake while I had the carbs off.
Now runs the best it ever has!
Cant wait open up the motor but still doing some reading 😉
Instigator, my experience (more correctly my cousin's experience) with MG is British technology.
A tool box is needed. My cousin's MGB (model circa 1970) was a machine that needed attention.
My cousin then, was meticulous and gave a lot of tender-loving upkeep on his hardtop.
However, it was a joy to drive.
Here are some photos similar to his ride.
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Don’t know if I posted this before or not.
Know why the Brits drink warm beer??
They have Lucas refrigerators!
I have heard all of the horror stories too.
I had a Triumph motorcycle back in the day and it lived up to the Lucas reputation.
I crossed my fingers and headed home from the sellers house, the 100 miles w/the MG and it never missed a beat.
And coming from a seller who had zero history on the car.
The car so far has been nothing but a joy.
So basic and easy to work on it’s excellent therapy for me.
Everything I fixed repaired or tuned so far has just been neglect and or age related.
Tweaked on the carbs one more time today and drove 20 miles and it runs perfect!
Gorgeous cars in your post too.
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Wow! I've never seen a "GT" hard top conversion kit before. Was this custom built from scratch? What did the interior and trunk end up looking like? Photos?Quote:
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What was used for side panel and rear window glass?
No clue.
I assumed they were standard GTs until your reply.
Those pixs we’re posted by lake x kid, not me.
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I still feel the convertible is a much nicer car. Those hard top/conver/fastback really do not look right to me.
The factory MGB GT is pictured
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Perhaps they got the idea from the Jaguar E Type coupe, or the E type 2+2. The original E type was the prettiest, the 2+2 versions were a bit hunch backed looking
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Jags have good lines until you put an ugly hard top on it. About as ugly as a French Citroen.
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I agree, ugly and also very noisy.Quote:
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I had a Boxter that was horrible for air noises and squeaks...:eek:
Only the newer style cars that have really spent time perfecting all the seals and lock mech work pretty good.
Gary, yours looks the way it was intended or supposed to look.....:thumbsup:
I’ve always thought that, there are very few convertibles that look as good w/the top up and down.
Just saw a MGB hard top on e-bay.
The ‘80 that I almost bought, had one.
I got cought up on a 76 MG Midget. Did the same thing fixing all the little stuff. Parts are so cheap,its scary. Joined a MG club and they are some devoted guy's with tons of knowledge .Kind of like SF. I get more looks than the new Corvette parked next to me.lol
Can anyone guess what foreign job this is, by the engine?
Alpha?
Datsun 2000?
You're close. My 1969 Fiat 124 sport spider. You can just see my 64 Austin Healy Sprite, behind the Fiat. This was going on in Late, 73, and 74. The gas crisis, and all. Even though the Fiat had double overhead cams, 334 more cc's, 4 wheel disc. brakes, and a 5 spd., the the Sprite could beat it in the first couple of gears, and get an honest 40 mpg, on the hwy. By late 1974, I got rid of them for a 1967 Cougar, 289, 4 spd, headers, 4 barrel, and 3.56 gears...Murica !!Quote:
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Always like the 124 Fiats.
I assume yo know what FIAT stands for??
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Tony!
Bought a ‘1980 (I think) Fiat Strada for my wife (at the time) after my dad put the guilt trip on me for letting her drive her unpredictable (never broke down!), 15 yr old, 120,000 mile Buick.
Their version of a VW Rabbit.
Was only a few yrs old and as new.
The wife had a 1/2 hr commute to work and that damn thing would just shut off, half way there!
Id get a friend and tow strap and go get it and the thing would start right up!
Not sure how many times it did this but, was to the point that every time the phone rang at work, it scared me!
Finally, one time on the freeway, both us in it, I hit the horn and the wipers came on!
Thrn the dash caught fire! Same time.
That was the end of that car!
We we’re poor at that time and my mom always teased me after I told her that once I could afford to, I was going to find/buy that car, set it on fire and drive it off a cliff!
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Finally I am Almost There
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Here am I relaxing in an associate's rag top.
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Bad ass!
A Austin Healy 3000 was/is, top of the food chain for me.
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That is the way that car was made to look like!
Not many can tune/balance those wheel but they are the correct ones! My buddy had one and it would shake to death 55-70.
Finally getting it sorted/tuned.
Rebuilt SU’s, new elec fuel pump, and after chasing mid range bogs, finally have it pulling 5500 through the gears!
Now to find a donor motor to whittle on.
The new e-bay rims/tires made a huge cosmetic improvement!
As a gear head, interesting tid bit, I cannot get it to run w/my home made ram air system!
W/it off, it runs perfect.
W/it on, it falls on its face at 3400!
Carb throats are only 1 1/2” ID and PVC is 2 1/2” so I am shocked at results.
Any larger PVC would bad so no to 3”.
Moss Motors sells one almost identical w/o the ram air funnel and is formed one pc plastic.
I even clean up the joints when assembling and used gradual 90’s for the bends.
One of the good thinks w/cheap experiments is, if they fail, so what?
Could it be you aren't getting enough fuel with the increase in air flow.
This might give you some insight. ---> https://www.mginfo.co.uk/upgrades4mg..._su_carbs.html
Maybe you need to ground the plastic pipe. All that air moving across the PVC can create a static charge. Maybe it's causing some "twilight zone" problem? ;)
I have read/studied most of what has been written and is trusted on the SUs.
Now that I understand them, I am a huge fan.
They are basically Mikuni bike carburetors which I have also worked on.
On the fuel starvation theory, it happens at 3500 in 1st gear.
Thats like 20 mph, which I believe is to slow for the ram air to have an effect.
My theory is that I spent too much effort in guiding the flow into the forward carburetor to keep it from being starved by the direct shot to the aft carburetor that it may be pulling air that the seconds carb needs.
I may build another one with a straight 90° fitting instead of the gently flowing piece in the pictures.
Gary, looks great!
Fuel starvation problem solved.
Combination of my ram air 1.0 being too restrictive and improper throttle cable adjustment.
Was pulling my hair out getting there!
I even put a boat fuel tank in the trunk to totally isolate the OEM fuel system.
With open velocity stacks it now pulls cleanly through 5500 in all gears.
The thing is far from fast but now fast enough to be fun!
And now I have a pretty good baseline to work off of on what to expect with the future mod’d motor.
Spent some time out in the shop yesterday Fabing up ram air 2.0.
The largest diameter PVC I can get to fit.
50% improved over 1.0 version but still runs out of flow from mid range up.
So back to open velocity stacks with bike filters on them today.
Was still a fun project.
Maybe you need a supercharger
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Turn it into a shaker. The offset would look way bitchin’.
I’m a fan of naturally aspirated.
Stock it’s an 1800cc and looks like you can go to 2000 fairly easily.
You pretty much make same power either way but I like old school, NA.
The guys on Engine Masters did a segment on that.
Big compression Vs blower, Vs turbo and at the end of it they were shocked to se them basically the same.
Just shoehorn this in there.;):thumbsup:
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Instigator, check out this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU98_D2sE1U