Leons MGB 215 V8

2011 – Rebuild

2011 - rebuild - color changed to Chrysler 300 Vanilla Tim Warner did the body work and did a great job. Floors were worse than I thought they would be - the hole in the top...

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Oil Filter Placement

Where and how my oil filter is located. It is a MOCAL remote oil filter head using the side inlet/outlets - there are a lot of heads that have the I/O coming straight out but...

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First 300 Mile – a review

This is a page from my first website for the MGB V8. I've added my comments to the right after 23 years of it being on the road.04/16/98  - First 300 Miles .... And now with my...

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Hyperspark

This is the control head for the Sniper. Top left is the Throttle Position Sensor (TPS) - it auto resets to 0 each time you start it. Under that is the Idle Air Control (IAC) -...

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Battery Charger Multiplexer

Battery Charger MultiplexerLiving in the North East if you have an older car or a boat, or lawn mower or other vehicle that starts with a battery that you don't drive...

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Putting it together

My daughter, son-in-law and I putting the car back together after the new paint job. As a reward they got to be the first to drive it all together for the first...

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Mystery Parts

While putting the car together the first time I ran across these parts. Couldn't find out from the parts catalog what they were and we'd could figure it out so I...

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Motor Mounts

These are the old motor mounts - need to put in stiffer mounts so the engine doesn't move around so much.

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Magazine Articles about V8 Mg’s

Older (1975) magazine articles about engine swapping - Aluminum V8's in MGs and Vegas. These are quotes from Perterson's Complete Book of Engine Swapping No. 4 available at...

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