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Re:5 Main bearing "B" engine and 4 syncro trans in MGA ?

To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re:5 Main bearing "B" engine and 4 syncro trans in MGA ?
From: WSpohn4@aol.com
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:24:29 EDT
In a message dated 10/14/00 7:58:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
owner-mgs-digest@autox.team.net writes:

> Recently there was a similar thread about putting the 5 main engine in the 
> MGA using the 3 syncro
>  trans.
>  
>  How about the MGB 5 main engine and the fully synchronized transmission.
>  
>  What challenges would I face?

The challenge of not being able to swap tail housings so that the box bolted 
into the stock frame mount on the A (you'd have to make up an adaptor, and/or 
cut the 'ears' off the frame), and the challenge of having to give up what in 
some people's opinion (including mine) is a much sweeter box, albeit with no 
synchro first.

Bill

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