morris marina '72 turbo

RE. the hubs...

the hubs on my rear axle (which is a salisbury) has 4.5" pcd and when i ordered new wheel cylinders they were only listed as Morgan!?

(the guy i bought it off said it was MGB V8 but everything else he said was absolute boll_ks so i have no idea what my axle is off TBH... )

that didnt help did it ? ;D ;D ;D

Is that the rotten ital thatwas on ebay recently, vandalised and rotted out to death?

a REAL marina fan would have restored it........ Just kidding, its really had it!

looks well goosed! Did it have the telescopics on the front?

Do you know what I proper fancy getting a Marina while the GF is out at work.

I'm wrong its the mgr that has a 3.31 ratio and limited slip
The mgb v8 has a diffrent final drive gearing to a normal mgb
the 1.8 has 3.9/1 the v8 has 3.07:1 or 3.31, which is really handy as the 3.9/1 is slightly lower than the original 1.8 marina one and twice as strong, top end shouldnt be a prob as I'm using a 5 speed lt77 box?

excellent project. One thats on my list of "wouldn't it be a good idea to, why has nobody done it yet"

I have many "mind projects" involving BL cars and the 820 turbo motor... Well, basically any BL car - Allegro, Maxi, Marina, Ital, Princess...

Wow thats going to be a beast, big fan of the T16 turbo engine, kinda why I have the Rover 600ti which is a major Q car!

don't know much about the marina but I had a look at a 1.7 princess or Ital dunno some old BL car with the 1.7 o-series anyway.
As it uses the O-series I would guess its the same job as the popular T16turbo conversion for Maestro and Montego's which also have o-series but 2.0L's.
Theres loads of info on www.triple-m.co.uk forum, you have to sign up to view.

PS do you work at the scrapyard, shame that red Metro GT tailgate isn't white as I'm after one!

nice project,the coupe was always a nice shape. used to know a few boys here in newcastle that were mad about marinas a few years ago,they always got a bit excited whenever the words 'mumford' and 'convertible' were mentioned in the same sentence ... ;D

hey ho, its about time I up dated on the turbo project.
its been a bit of a challenging start really the box I bought turned out to be knacked. and Ive been stripping the shell down in preparation and the deeper Ive gone the worse it's looked
1st the sills looked solid but had been replaced and stone chipped up after stripping said stone chip off it turns out thieve been put over the originals and both are rotting through and there was extra sound deading in the sides of the boot after removing this its had a section of rear quarter put in from another car and a wodge of filler on the outside
I have just bought another 72 coupe though which my first thought was to use this new one for the turbo then Ive found its got a lot of history and its quite nice, but on the other hand its got some lovely patina and would make a excellent sleeper, what should I do? I'm flogging a dead horse with the original shell and by the time Ive put 200 od bhp through her it would probably burst.
heres the pics of the new one there old pics though from previous owner,



the engine build up so far is the t series lump with o series mounts to the chassis rails, chassis rail holes drilled slightly higher so the turbo clears n/s chassis, o series backing/adapter plate with hole machined for crank sensor, o series starter, marina bell housing t series flywheel and ford type 9 box Ive still got to sort out a clutch and get bell housing machined to fit the t9 but its getting there I will sort out some pics asap

That said, if you were to flog it, how much would you want? Looks lovely!

Sorry you've had trouble with the original plan - a cracking idea!