>I'm nearing the point of putting the engine back together in the trusty '71
>MGB. Since I use the car for autocross as well as the street I've been
>looking at adding a baffle in the sump to help prevent oil pressure loss in
>the sort of heavy cornering I do, thereby hopefully extending the time
>before spinning another rod bearing as I dd late last year, prompting the
>current rebuild. I've copied the template from the Special Tuning manual
>and was considering having one fabricated (after making the changes
>necessary to accomodate the slightly different pan shape in my 18GK as
>opposed to the 18GA and GB that the ST manual template is for. It occured
>to me that I'm probably not the first to consider this and was wondering if
>anyone out there on the list has already done this project and might know
>where I could obtain either the baffle itself or a sump already modified
>with one. Or failing that, whether there are others out there who'd like
>one themselves, as there might be some economies of production if we were
>to have several made rather than just one.
>
>Ric Johnson
>Regional Executive - Des Moines Valley Region SCCA
>
Try DOUG JACKSON, <doug@mgbmga.com>, at British Automotive, in Novato,
CA. He has many special performance mods for MG. His web site is at:
<http://www.mgbmga.com/>
Don't know for sure that he has this part, but he has racing rocker arms,
side plate mods, alternator conversion kits, many other components.
Max Heim
'66 MGB
runs great, needs paint
Palo Alto CA
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