"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
09/20/2013 at 15:21 • Filed to: None
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
09/20/2013 at 15:21 • Filed to: None | 2
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MG-midget. v8 swap = good, let's continue with that. Interior custom with newer seats = well, we're making progress to something comfortable, ok but we really should think about the whole as a package of.... wheels = DeAr GoD what the HELL are you doing?????
I want to investigate a Midget build, and i would have to re-weld a firewall to fit my gargantuan height.
Slave2anMG
> Grindintosecond
09/20/2013 at 15:40 |
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Ghastly wheels.
Speaking as a non-purist who owns a Midget...V8 swap = bad. Waaaay too much weight over the front wheels; probably makes the footwells even crazy narrower than they are.
Better swap is a modern four cylinder or a rotor motor. Datsun 1600s go in well; britishv8.org shows everything from GM V6s to a turbo Mazda 4. Another guy did Bugzuki, using the 1300 out of a Suzuki swift which is a nice little engine. The cars weigh about 1500 lbs - a V8 is crazy overkill and can't be good for the handling.
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Grindintosecond
> Slave2anMG
09/20/2013 at 16:05 |
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Personally, I wish to use a mazda klde 2.5 v6...smalll engine and built to rev and scream nicely.
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Slave2anMG
> Grindintosecond
09/20/2013 at 16:15 |
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This engine? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_K_e… - I remember it being a screamer. It looks tiny enough; 60 degree V will help. A big tripping point is the transmission tunnel and getting the shifter to come up in a useful place :)
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> Slave2anMG
09/20/2013 at 16:23 |
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yep. that engine. some have put it in miatas and on ITB's sourced brom a triumph bike it gets very good. the shifter location poblem is easy to fix. just bend the shift level like the old cobra did. it came up by the dirvers hip so they took a long shifter and bent it almost 90 deg. forward. and you just run it that way. odd but works. could do it the other way if its way in front of the driver. However the guy did it with teh rotary wankel engine, shold work this way too it is a mazda after all so a rx7 tranny should work out if it worked in that method.
http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/mazda-kl-serie…
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deekster_caddy
> Grindintosecond
09/20/2013 at 16:32 |
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Somehow I feel most MG wheels should just be wire spoke. Like mine. But I might be a little biased...
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> deekster_caddy
09/20/2013 at 16:34 |
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i agree on that car, or a chromy A or B....
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deekster_caddy
> Grindintosecond
09/20/2013 at 16:35 |
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I've seen nice wire wheel kits on MGBs and they look good too. Not sure how wide you can get them though. Plus if you are going to track it you might not be allowed to.
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> Slave2anMG
09/20/2013 at 16:46 |
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I can only speak for the B series in the MGBs , but those stock motors were not particularly light; there are plenty of all-aluminum V8s that don't weigh any more than than a B series, and a couplethat weigh even less. Looks like an A-series long-block weighs 280 lbs and closer to 300 fully dressed; a Buick 215 weighs 315 pounds full dressed. A Ford 302 will weight somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 lbs. The weight thing rarely holds up in this argument. I don't know about the footwell space, either, because the small V8s really don't gain much length relative to a straight 4.
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Slave2anMG
> Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney
09/20/2013 at 18:33 |
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Interesting data.
Its not the length that's the issue with a Midget. It's the width. I'm six feet tall and can lean over the hood of my Midget and touch the tops of both front tires at the same time. If I stick out my right arm while in the car, my fingers are on top of the passenger door...