What is odd is that the used engine which I put into my MGB was alleged to
be a Gold Seal engine; it was painted gold, and it had a BHM number plate,
but the number is not on the list on this page, or the list in the "Original
MGB" book. So I've always been puzzled as to where it came from.
It is a high compression engine without air injection ports -- seemingly an
18GB replacement.
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 10/11/07 1:20 AM, Paul Hunt at paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> It's 'Gold Seal', and is a factory reconditioned replacement engine, painted
> gold instead of red or black. My understanding is this was a complete
> engine that had been, for whatever reason, stripped, every component checked
> for damage and measured for tolerance, and rebuilt using new components
> where required. As such Gold Seal engines were said to be better than
> originals, for with originals parts from the component manufacturers were
> fitted as-is without being checked or measured and hence rogue components
> could get through and cause problems later on. There were also Silver Seal
> engines, which I think were 'short' engines i.e. incomplete, no connection I
> know of with an American company of the same name. Gold Seal engines have
> their own series of engine number prefixes beginning 48G and latterly BHM in
> place of the 18G, 18Gx and 18V of the originals. The other prefix and
> suffix letters were as for the originals. See
> http://www.mgb-stuff.org.uk/wn_engineframe.htm and click on 'Gold Seal
> Engines' for how the Gold Seal prefixes relate to the originals.
>
> PaulH.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> I was reading up on MGB's the other day and someone mentioned a "gold
>> sealed
>> engine" for the uninitiated what does that mean?
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