Leons MGB V8 – Olds 215ci

The story behind our 41 day 12,000 mile trip around the U.S. The good, the bad and the damn it!

Here are some pictures we took while on our 41 day 12,000 mile trip around the country. We had a blast, met some great people and had a wonderful…

2011 – rebuild – color changed to Chrysler 300 Vanilla Tim Warner did the body work and did a great job. Floors were worse than I…

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…

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 …

Current transmission is a Borg Warner T5 – not world class. Originally I used the tranny Mike picked out – a T50-5. It was from a 1975…

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…

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…

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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…

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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…

These are the old motor mounts – need to put in stiffer mounts so the engine doesn’t move around so…

Older (1975) magazine articles about engine swapping – Aluminum V8’s in MGs and Vegas. These are quotes from Perterson’s Complete…