I'm after a couple of engines or boxes of bits.
Plan is to find a cheap (very cheap) way to breath a bit more power in to my MGB.
The obvious cheap way forward is too keep the existing gearbox as that way it's only the engine that changes, if I keep the gearbox it would be nice to keep the flywheel/clutch and the backplate as that way the starter etc. also gets kept.
Thus a related engine to the standard slightly asthmatic B series is needed.
Enter the O series onwards.
What I'm after is ideally a completely cream crackered B series to save me pulling my car apart till the last minute. As well as working or not O series and M/T series engines.
The idea being with a handful of complete engines with a vague family relation I can swap and play with cranks, back plates, pistons and rods, blocks, heads etc. And hopefully find some kind of bastardised frankenstein of an engine in the madness!
I don't care if the engines run or not, if the worse comes to the worse and they have rods through the blocks then at least I can play around making and measuring with them!
In or close to Yorkshire would be nice obviously but I will travel.
Olly
Plan is to find a cheap (very cheap) way to breath a bit more power in to my MGB.
The obvious cheap way forward is too keep the existing gearbox as that way it's only the engine that changes, if I keep the gearbox it would be nice to keep the flywheel/clutch and the backplate as that way the starter etc. also gets kept.
Thus a related engine to the standard slightly asthmatic B series is needed.
Enter the O series onwards.
What I'm after is ideally a completely cream crackered B series to save me pulling my car apart till the last minute. As well as working or not O series and M/T series engines.
The idea being with a handful of complete engines with a vague family relation I can swap and play with cranks, back plates, pistons and rods, blocks, heads etc. And hopefully find some kind of bastardised frankenstein of an engine in the madness!
I don't care if the engines run or not, if the worse comes to the worse and they have rods through the blocks then at least I can play around making and measuring with them!
In or close to Yorkshire would be nice obviously but I will travel.
Olly
) but any of the complete O/M/T series engines should fit directly onto the MGB gearbox with the MGB backplate, flywheel and starter fitted to them.
