Yeah man! Let’s do it.

PS
Ed – I know you like to drive – just messing w/ you – hope to see you on a
cruise sometime this summer on the Blue ridge parkway

Welcome.
Use a Bosch #AL82N alternator. You will have to change to an “alternator style” fuel pump and fuel pump pushrod (short). A generator style will not clear the alternator.
You will also have to change to an alternator stand. The generator stand will also not clear the alternator. An alternator stand works for both though.
The alternator i…[Read more]

FYI , Classic car Motor oil is $64.50 per 12 qt. case , INCLUDING shipping.
That equals $5.38 per quart, at your door. It is 15-w40 with 1600 ppm ZDDP

At one of the SVRA events I attened at Watkins Glen, there was a guy with one of these in a “track only” Triumph TR-3. It had 4 Webers on it. He never had it running as good as it should though.
Les Gonda’s MG8 eats small block powered Cobra’s for breakfast.
You sound ready for the I-95 commute!

Welcome aboard tinkerman!

Ya Ed – Richard ( Crazy MG Guy – CMGG for short ) decided you were one of
those sit all day at the car show kind of guys instead of the lets go cruising
kind of guy – what happened?

Anyway – CMGG ( Richard ) took us on a couple of well paced rides through
the PA hills and we had a great time.
Sorry to miss you on your way out Sunday morning Richard.

Dale

Crikies, man! You cut half your own car out of the shot!I had the same damn problem. Too many MGs to fit in the frame. That’s a nice trouble to have.Let’s hope Bill (White MG) and Greg & Debbie (with the cream-colored one) stop by the forum.And oh, yeah, man–those Speedie guys like you! Sorry I blew off the ice cream cruise. I’ll probably never…[Read more]

Yeah, saw that after I posted, Mark. I think those little V8s are hot stuff & in my fantasy life (the life in which I actually have skills in the garage, plus time, plus money) I would build one up stout & stuff it in a Simpson re-bodied Miata Italia & put some funky early ’60s induction on top. Then I’d learn to speak Italian too and cruise it…[Read more]

You can get a VW towbar really cheap. They will allow you to flat tow the car. You almost don’t know the car is behind you. You just can’t back-up with the car hooked up.
These cars are VERY light and you really don’t need a trans cooler as long as you don’t use OverDrive (read your owner’s manual to verify).
VW didn’t sell air cooled Beetles in t…[Read more]

Ed, it’s a 215 c.i.d. aluminum Buick V8. He wrote in anther thread about the car.
Funny, those engines were a flop when intoduced in the 1960 Buick and almost the same motor in the Olds F-85. The heads were slightly different and one-way interchangeable between the motors.
In the late 60’s, GM sold the tooling to Rover, who used them in the MG8,…[Read more]

Thanks Wobby!
You are now known on  the  Speedster Owners Club forum as
“…that crazy MG guy…” that took us on the great driving tours.

Welcome! I recently bought a Design Classics MG kit in Florida and drove back to Indiana, 1200 miles. It was fun and some times exciting, make sure the cooling system is working right. Have fun.

Kool Kar, Harry. I like the color a lot. Good luck with the sale.

Ah! Rover motivation. That should work nice. I’ve decided I want to make one of these with an Olds Quad-4 rigged with Weber side drafts and bolted to a T-5. If I ever get it done I’ll take the front wings off & paint George Beavis Special in little cursive letters on the door. Probably never happen though. Got an up-close look at the foot well of…[Read more]

Ah! Rover motivation. That should work nice. I’ve decided I want to make one of these with an Olds Quad-4 rigged with Weber side drafts and bolted to a T-5. If I ever get it done I’ll take the front wings off & paint George Beavis Special in little cursive letters on the door. Probably never happen though. Got an up-close look at the foot well of…[Read more]

That dosen’t look like any Chevette engine I ever saw before. Sure it’s not one of them rare Corvette-based TD kits?

Welcome aboarg Greg. Which VW based TD do you have? CMC Fiberfab, Daytona Migi, Duchess? Is the car a driving work in progress?

Thanks for all the help. You all seem like a great bunch of folks.

Hi ,Almost ,,,good luck and much fun with your new project….,,Dan R