> On Apr 14, 2020, at 5:51 AM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > Larry, that is a seriously cool car!
Thanks Mark. It is a point of pride that she’s been called “the coolest car at the track”. Shortly after I installed the blower, I was at SCCA driver’s school to renew my license and someone came up, looked under the hood and said “That explains it, I had an MGB and it didn’t go the way yours does”. I even took her to a rally school / rallycross weekend http://www.red4est.com/jasmine/jaspix/rallyx.021124/jasrallyx021124.hires/ I seriously wish I had the time & money to get her back on the road. > > 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. > -- Larry Colen [email protected] -- 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.
