On Oct 5, 2010, at 3:10 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Larry Colen >> On Oct 5, 2010, at 1:43 PM, John Sessoms wrote: >>>> >>>> Well ... not a real car. >>>> >>>> I'd get my MG running again, but that's not really for >>>> transportation. >> I need to get my MGBGT back on the road too. And being a BGT, it >> actually makes pretty decent transportation. > > Mine's a MGB Tourer (roadster), and it was my daily driver for a while. With > a little attention to detail, you *can* get the top and the windshield to > where they won't leak every time it rains and it can be driven during most of > a North Carolina winter. > > I bought it in '93 when I decided it was time to have a midlife crisis & I > wasn't going to pay 20 grand for a Mazda Miata when I couldn't even > straighten my leg out enough so it wouldn't rub against the steering wheel > all the time. > > Problem number 1 is carburetion - it was a later model retro-fitted with dual > SUs and I never could keep the mixture lean enough, so I tended to burn > through catalytic converters. Even at that, it got great gas mileage. But it > was a pain every year when inspection time rolled around. Took some major > fiddling to pass the emissions test.
What needles are you running? Although the most likely problem is that the throttle shafts are worn and you've got a slight air leak around them, causing you to need to richen it up a bit extra to get it right at idle, which makes it rich through the rest of the range. > > I think I can fix that by fitting a Webber DGV; I've got the carb, manifold > and a rebuild kit sitting in the basement. Probably have to rebuild the head > as well, but that's no big deal, I've done that before. I think I can get the > emissions working and pass the test and keep it running clean. I ran DGVs (or DFVs) on the Rabbit and the Cortina I raced. I hated those carbs, much more complicated than the SUs and a lot harder to dial in. The blower kit came with a single SU, but I hope to replace that with a megasquirt fuel injection set up, meanwhile replacing the dizzy with crank fired ignition. All that'll take is a bit of time. And money. > > Problem number 2 is what's really kept it off the road. > > Vandals smashed the windshield and driver's side window and I can't get the > broken glass out of the existing interior. I'm going to have to strip it out > and completely replace it, which is just beyond my finances right now. That seems mighty extreme. At the very least a detailing place should be able to clean it all out for, at most, $200. > > The parts kit from Victoria British was about $2500 last time I looked. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
