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Re: MGA - Just happy (couldn't resist)

To: "Barney Gaylord" <barneymg@ntsource.com>, "MG List" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: MGA - Just happy (couldn't resist)
From: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 07:53:25 -0500
Way to go Barney!!!! Glad to hear you are back on the road!!

Larry

>>>>On 2/26/00 1:10 AM so and so (Barney Gaylord) said. (And I quote:)

>Hi gang,
>
>70 degrees F and partly sunny near Chicago today, great time for a drive
>with the top down.  I finally got the MGA running again, having been off
>the road since late November because of a very flat cam.  This was by far
>the longest stretch out of service since the (first) restoration was
>finished in late 1986.  So after months of negotiating for a new cam, new
>timing parts that are sort of adjustable (or at least were supposed to be),
>then having to machine an offset cam key to get the valve timing to come
>out right, and then doing some cleanup work in the engine bay, and finally
>fitting K&N air filters into the original MGA air cleaner housings (after a
>just a little tinkering), the little beast sings nicely once again.
>
>I had an interresting half hour drive around town with the idle set to
>2500rpm to get the new cam properly run in.  Having done nothing to the
>bottom end and very little to the head I wasn't the least bit worried about
>the rest of the engine, so I had plenty of opportunity to shove it well
>past the red line (several times).  Hot diggity!  It feels so good to have
>an MG that actually runs like an MG again.  Now when's the next autocross
>date?  YEEHAA!!! Sorry, couldn't resist.
>
>A toast all around,
>
>Barney Gaylord
>1958 MGA with a new attitude
>    http://www.ntsource.com/~barneymg


Larry Macy
78 Midget

Keep your top down and your chin up.

Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Manager/Administrator
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 10 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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