GavinJ
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MGB 3.9 v8 Sebring
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Smokin'GavinJ
@gavinj
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I went on a open pit lane trackday at Donington today, nice and wet meaning a tail happy mg ;D The day went really well as i managed not to spin all day and avoided any accidents! i was told by a steward they had recorded over 40 incidents All was going well until the journey home when i spotted some smoke coming back on the a50 and it gradually got worse and worse, managed to limp home but either my piston rings have gone or i've blown a hole in a piston Oh well it was bound to happen eventually i'm just glad it let go after the trackday and not at the start Just means the v8 conversion will happen sooner rather than later!! On good note i got home find these, that i won on ebay for £4.99 posted I can now have yellow lights, just a shame the mg is not going anywhere soon!!
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awwww, never mind geez, at least you made it home!
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Kris
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Sorry to hear about that, seems like so good motivation for the V8 convrsion though I bet coming down throught the Craners in the wet was fun I picked up a set of these for the Polo the other day, bit tricky to fit as it hasn`t got headlight rims though
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at least the car came home with its bodywork intact
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Nathan
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Smokin'Nathan
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Sorry to hear it mate, was the engine on its last legs. Usually they are quite good mine blew a ring after about 160k.
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GavinJ
Club Retro Rides Member
MGB 3.9 v8 Sebring
Posts: 927
Club RR Member Number: 209
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Smokin'GavinJ
@gavinj
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To be honest it has come as a bit of a shock, as it was a very quiet engine, good oild pressure and never smoked. I always gave it an oil and filter change before each trackday! and i do one roughly every 3 months. When it let go yesterday the temp was normal and the oil pressure didn't change - was still about 70lbs. Started it up this morning and it smoked a little bit from cold, when i took the dipstick out it's also puffing a bit of smoke out which it didn't do before and there is some smoke coming out the oil cap when removed... Some pic's, Oil genrrally everywhere, notice how its sprayed onto the alternator, On this pic you can just see some some smoke coming out of the dipstick hole, As for Craners it was a bit dodgy, a mk2 Fiesta managed to roll it luckily the occupants were fine
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GavinJ
Club Retro Rides Member
MGB 3.9 v8 Sebring
Posts: 927
Club RR Member Number: 209
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Smokin'GavinJ
@gavinj
Club Retro Rides Member 209
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Shame about that. Hope you've got a nice warm garage - still V8 ;D ;D
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What a curse word! Annoying that, specially if the mota was in good nick beforehand. Bloody old BMC tanks. Have you done a compression test?
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GavinJ
Club Retro Rides Member
MGB 3.9 v8 Sebring
Posts: 927
Club RR Member Number: 209
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Smokin'GavinJ
@gavinj
Club Retro Rides Member 209
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Not done a compression test yet, i've now laid it up for winter and will look at it next year - i've decided i'm just going to take the engine out - fit the v8 and get that all up and running and when i've got time i'm hoping strip the engine r and rebuild it in order to learn a bit more about engines.
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Last Edit: Dec 4, 2005 18:23:10 GMT by GavinJ
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