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Re: Dual SU's

To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Dual SU's
From: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 15:46:22 -0400
All right all right...enough of this jumping on. I bet you like the fights 
at hockey games, too :-}

SO I erred yet one more time. Still, 250 is way less than 450 in my arithmatic.
Bill





At 11:26 AM 06/13/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Yeah, I assumed he really meant "$125 apiece", and I thought that was
>reasonably cheap.
>Max
>
>British Sportscar Center had this to say:
>
> >Let's see now.......
> >
> >Cost of rebuild kit - close to $90. Cost of new shafts and bushings -
> >roughly $25. Time needed to properly rebuild a pair of HIFs - about two
> >hours.
> >
> >So, if they are selling a pair of rebuilt HIFs for "under $125", they don't
> >value their labor very highly and they are clearly willing to give away the
> >carb cores.
> >
> >What other bargains do these folks offer - and how do we get in touch with
> >them? {G}
> >
> >Lawrie
> >British Sportscar Center
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
> >To: Aaron Whiteman <aaronw@wsu.edu>
> >Cc: <mgs@autox.team.net>
> >Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 9:05 AM
> >Subject: Re: Dual SU's
> >
>
> >> During the last few months, I replaced the 'damn' ZS on my '76B with dual
> >> SU's for $300 which I later found out is a tad high but I won't and didn't
> >> argue (ignorance BUT am happy with the setup), I got a pair of HIF's,
> >> eventually, the linkages between them, the manifold (which you'll have to
> >> change) AND the header pipe (which you'll have to change).  Truth be told,
> >> I changed the carbs and after some fiddling and help, mostly due to my
> >> ignorance at the time, they work fine. The wife says the car sounds better
> >> than it has in the 2 years I've owned it.
> >>
> >> BUT
> >>
> >> My local MG place would have sold me a pair of rebuilt HIF's for under
> >$125
> >> (not including the manifold and header pipe, etc.)
> >>
>
>
>--
>
>Max Heim
>'66 MGB GHN3L76149
>If you're near Mountain View, CA,
>it's the red one with the silver bootlid.


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