Larry, that is a seriously cool car! Larry Colen wrote:
>My project car is a 69 MGBGT, it served double duty as a daily driver and the >car I used to teach performance driving: > >http://red4est.com/jasmine > >When it was last running, with the supercharger on it, it could keep up with >Spec Miatas on the straights. The Ford five speed transmission worked a lot >better than the O/D gearbox. Since it saw more track time than most race cars >it has a custom SCCA legal roll cage. Unfortunately because of a couple of >issues I had to take the motor apart for a rebuild before it took itself >apart. By the time I was done with the rebuild, it had a ported aluminum >head, custom cam, high lift roller rockers, aluminum back plate, lightened >starter etc. etc. I knocked 50 static pounds off the motor, which is good for >about half a second a lap on most of the local tracks (carrying a passenger >slows me down by about 2 seconds, so I use 100lbs = 1 second/lap as a rule of >thumb). > >I expected the rebuild to take a couple of months. I then ran into an >incredible list of issues. Parts being delayed because of wild fires, getting >laid off and not having money, getting a job and not having time, building a >spec miata to race and having neither time nor money, someone crashing his car >into my garage and not having a garage for a year >The last time I started to make significant progress, my then girlfriend came >home from moving her elderly mom into assisted living, informing me that wed >need a place to store a bunch of stuff, and that started a three week home >improvement project that took three years to finish. > >Of course, by that time, she had been sitting for many years and it was no >longer a case of just slapping the motor back in. Here are some photos from >the last time I was able to invest significant time in her: >https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157622346827887/ > >I used preval sprayers to repaint the engine compartment with real auto paint >rather than rattle cans which just doesnt last. > >Ive got some video of her and in her posted here: >http://red4est.com/jasvids/ -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
