On Oct 1, 2011, at 4:54 AM, Darren Addy wrote: >> after nearly a decade of road racing experience, driving my MGB. > > Do you still have it? I'm guessing it has a bigger engine than the one > under the hood of the '79 in my garage - awaiting my attention (and > dollars). : \
http://red4est.com/jasmine The story of the latest engine rebuild has been a long and sad one rife with a long litany of improbable events. The current status is that the new motor is sitting next to the car in the garage, waiting for me to have the time to reunite them. The current round of home repairs should be the last obstacle to my being able to do so. Unfortunately my current contract seems to be eating up too much time for me to do the critical home repairs, much less play with cars. The engine under the hood isn't any bigger, in size or displacement than the one in your rubber bumper B. With the aluminum head, flywheel, back plate modern starter etc, it's about 50 pounds lighter. The engine gains a few of those pounds back with the addition of a supercharger: http://www.hi-flow.com/ Your car probably puts about 50HP to the ground, a stock '69 like mine, puts about 65 to the ground, mine was putting about 75 to the ground before I put the blower on, which boosted it up to 90-100hp to the ground. For various reasons, I had to take the motor apart before it took itself apart, and I'm hoping that with the ported aluminum head, I'll be seeing about 105hp to the ground on 91 octane, or about the same as a well tuned Miata (perhaps one without a catalytic converter). At an SCCA driver's school someone looked under the hood of Jasmine, saw the supercharger and said "That explains it. I had an MGB, and they don't go the way yours does". > > Darren Addy > Kearney, Nebraska > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
