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 leaked much more than I thought so, new floors on both sides, rockers, and...

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 that wouldn’t work with my setup – too close to the radiator and the sway...

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 comments 23 years later – Here’s the update for the past 2...

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 posted this online. By the time I found out the went under the ends of the windshield they had...

Header Pics

Pics of the headers – taken during the 2010 rebuild. These had been Jet-Hot Coated. I took them over to Scottsville and had them Swain Coater – ceramic...
The Original Tach Circuit – the electronic one

The Original Tach Circuit – the electronic one

What it does –  Signal from the points goes into the 1k resistor at the left. 1 uf capacitor and 12v zener clean out the spikes from the ignition to a rather clean 12v pulse. CD4011 further cleans the pulse to a good looking squared corner pulse. CD4013 is a...