Leons MGB 215 V8
Trip Around the Country – 41 days – 12,000 miles
This is something that happens.
Trip Around The Country PICS
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...
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...
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...
Transmission, McCleod Bearing, Rear End
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 Pontiac Sunbird V6 with a 231ci engine....
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) -...
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...
Radiator and overflow tank
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...
Pre-Paint prep – the second time
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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...
Motor Mounts
These are the old motor mounts - need to put in stiffer mounts so the engine doesn't move around so much.
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...