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1. tube vs. lever shocks (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:26:55 -0500; 99.9% of the folks with MGs have no reason to go to tube shocks. Not because the cars were "engineered" that way, just because for what most people use the cars for it just doesn't matter. Club tours; /html/mgs/2005-09/msg00104.html (8,496 bytes)
2. Roll bars and such (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:08:27 -0500; Or use proper roll cage padding. Or Paddington. I once had a Paddington bear to the roll cage of the rally car, just in case. <jk> But yeah, sudden impact on roll cage material is bad indeed. I've se; /html/mgs/2005-09/msg00245.html (8,115 bytes)
3. 2005 London to Paris rally (no, not _that_ London and Paris) (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:40:49 -0500; Hello MG folk! Yeah, it's a bit out, and yeah, a lot of you don't care, but I really really want some Brit cars at this event... I'm up to my eyeballs in our local SCCA region. I'm co-chair of our an; /html/mgs/2005-08/msg00166.html (7,909 bytes)
4. Strange Ignition Behaviour (was This is scary stuff) (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:15:01 -0500; Points. Yuck. I'm so glad I went to electronic ignition on the rally car ('68 'B GT). Prior to that wonderful move, (well wonderful except when I got hit by an ignition spark! wow!) I had a strange t; /html/mgs/2005-07/msg00410.html (8,188 bytes)
5. Re: RE: Strange Ignition Behaviour (was This is scary stuff) (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:24:23 -0500; In the vernacular: "you da man!". Actually (specific years aside) I think in the case of the rally car it was a coil that was suffering from primary winding failure (shorting out). I figured it out w; /html/mgs/2005-07/msg00427.html (9,072 bytes)
6. MGB sway bar links (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:09:03 -0500; Hello all, If any of you have remnants of thrashed or broken MGB front sway bar links (particularly the "stud" portion that fits in to the lower a-arm) I'd be interested in them. Just shoot me and e-; /html/mgs/2005-06/msg00108.html (6,373 bytes)
7. Midget 1275 to 1500? (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:50:34 -0600; Hey all, Been busy spraying primer and block sanding the wife's TR8. (you know how that goes, prime and sand, prime and sand...) Anyway...what are the differences between the engine and gearbox mount; /html/mgs/2005-03/msg00155.html (6,711 bytes)
8. Re: RE: Midget 1275 to 1500? (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:24:27 -0600; Well, here goes...two stories: 1) I picked up a '73 Midget from the original owner. Car had been a street car, then a racer, and then taken apart. What is now sitting in the barn is a great mostly ru; /html/mgs/2005-03/msg00158.html (8,873 bytes)
9. MGB Clutch (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 08:09:18 -0600; I've had some MGB throw-out bearings get pretty beat up, but I've never had one completely fail. The worst clutch I ever pulled (and the clutch I abused the most) was after I had a hydraulic failure; /html/mgs/2005-01/msg00037.html (7,274 bytes)
10. Re: MGB in the snow (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:04:28 -0600; With the right tires a 'B isn't bad in the snow. My only competition experience with the 'B in snow was really melting snow and mud, so that doesn't count, but last year when we got some snow here I; /html/mgs/2005-01/msg00163.html (7,829 bytes)
11. Why? (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 09:32:02 -0600; My first car was/is (I still have it) a '75 MGB that I got when I was 16. wanted something that _wasn't_ big and American, being a nerd in Arkansas, big and American to me meant under-educated rednec; /html/mgs/2004-12/msg00103.html (9,213 bytes)
12. MG dash LEDs (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:02:43 -0600; "Sunbrite" makes E10 thread in replacement LEDs for 12V use. Digikey and Mouser handle them, and there's more info at: http://www.sunbriteleds.com/product.asp?id=51 I haven't tired these yet, but I'm; /html/mgs/2004-12/msg00109.html (6,630 bytes)
13. Re: MG advert (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:44:18 -0500; Oh yeah, nothing like the classic MG advertising: Young white guy with a young black girl and his MG Midget "your mother wouldn't like it" or numerous pretty girls sitting in and on various MGs (or,; /html/mgs/2004-07/msg00313.html (7,225 bytes)
14. Re: Spoke wheels vs. disk (and Solo II MGs) (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 10:55:55 -0500; David asked: Because unlike those of us who race them today, they were racing to sell sports cars. And during that time period, sports car _had_ to have wires. If you are putting a car in a race to b; /html/mgs/2004-05/msg00246.html (8,626 bytes)
15. Re: Recent race meet photos (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:55:10 -0500; Thanks for the great pix! It's interesting to see so many modified MGs racing. Here in the states you choose either vintage, no flares, nothing radical, or SCCA Production where the rules are almost; /html/mgs/2004-04/msg00113.html (6,675 bytes)
16. Circle track MGB-GT (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 21:57:12 -0600; Well, you guys may "dis" this (using the newfangled vernacular) but... h3ll, the fuel cell could be worth the $200. If I weren't 1300 miles away I'd get the bloody thing -- if the roll cage will meet; /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00027.html (8,075 bytes)
17. Re: Revolution wheels on ebay (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:22:36 -0600; Revies, yum! Gotta love the 4 spoke wheels. Minilite reps are everywhere, but revies? Not that I dislike minilites, they look good on Steph's TR8, but the revies look so clean to me, the elegant desi; /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00195.html (7,677 bytes)
18. SU Carb ID, HS6s (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:34:27 -0600; Paul, Why HS6s? If it is for the correct factory look, that's one thing, but an MGB engine other than _maybe_ a FULL race engine, does not need HS6s. There was a fellow out east running a 'B GT like; /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00196.html (7,326 bytes)
19. Re: Rhybudd (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:51:03 -0600; Arg. You're right. When I first built my 'B GT rally car and started talking to Phil, I was in San Diego. EVERYONE was "out east" to me then! Now I'm in Little Rock, and not quite true, but kind of h; /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00216.html (6,672 bytes)
20. Re: New rear disk brakes (score: 1): Author: kmwheeler@ualr.edu; Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:26:51 -0600; Exactly. And you're not trying to be a tough-guy about it too, you know, (in best John Wayne voice) "well I didn't have time to be scared, pilgrim", but that's really what it's like, when you are doi; /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00280.html (8,670 bytes)

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