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241. This time for sure! (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:01:25 -0800
Last night I finished installing the fresh (stock) head with fresh valve job, freshly surfaced etc. and a brand new Payen head gasket. I had a duece of a time firing her off, until I looked inside th
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00426.html (8,752 bytes)

242. Re: This time for sure! (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:24:23 -0800
My MG has been back on the road for about a day and a half now. It's really fun having an MGB with more horsepower than handling. I guess that it's time look at tube shock conversions again. The one
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00432.html (8,430 bytes)

243. Re: This time for sure! (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:58:25 -0800
Welded rear ends are fun. I had one in the Cortina that I raced, but they have various disadvantages. Tight turns don't work well, pusing the car by hand is a real pain, and welded diffs don't seem t
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00436.html (8,385 bytes)

244. Re: MG tow vehicle (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 23:18:30 -0800
My towing choices are almost exactly the opposite of your plans. I have a 1-ton dodge van with a fuel injected 360. I bought it used, and since it was 12 passenger I took out the rearmost seat and p
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00465.html (9,929 bytes)

245. Reading the headers (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:45:36 -0800
Actually, that's LRC, as in Lawrence Richard Colen, but since they are such propitious initials(1) for an electrical engineer, what else could I have used for electronic mail. Pot, Kettle, Black...
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00485.html (6,642 bytes)

246. Re: MG tow vehicle (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:59:35 -0800
You're welcome. Many of us have spent many an hour towing and have learned what makes it more or less pleasant. For example, I don't care for Ford vans because everyone I've driven has developed a lo
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00487.html (9,174 bytes)

247. changing wheel offsets (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:50:53 -0800
If (when) I get a custom rear end made, I can just as easily get it made to accept Datsun wheels as MGB offset wheels. The advantage being that wheels made to the Datsun/Nissan offset are a lot easie
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00526.html (7,245 bytes)

248. Tube shock conversions (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:48:14 -0800
What experience do folks have with tube shock conversions? Are there any kits that work especially well? Will these kits work with higher end shocks like konis? Larry -- I've found something worse th
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00527.html (7,681 bytes)

249. A product I'd like to see (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:33:01 -0800
When I built my motor, the crank pulley for the blower was large enough to block the timing marks on the front cover. I took a degree wheel (for setting and measuring cam timing) and attached it to t
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00537.html (8,449 bytes)

250. Good News/Bad News (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:48:35 -0800
First of all, I've got printouts of all they dyno runs, I just don't have time to enter all the data by hand. I'll let you all know when I've got them scanned and on line. CO is a guage of mixture. R
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00693.html (9,096 bytes)

251. Ford five speed conversion (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:20:36 -0800
Overall I'm very happy with the five speed conversion utilizing the Ford Sierra transmission. The shift linkage has an annoying tendancy to resonate and buzz. It would be nice if the shift lever had
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00705.html (8,821 bytes)

252. Re: Good News/Bad News (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:23:29 -0800
This is something that I've thought about. I've done some research and a lot of people have quite a few reservations about o-ringing as it potentially adds quite a bit more stress to the head. It als
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00706.html (7,988 bytes)

253. Re: Good News/Bad News (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:43:37 -0800
I pulled the plugs and did a compression test on the (cold) motor: 140, 100, 136, 140 I also noticed that much of the elctrode from the #4 spark plug was eroded away. This had happened before. Since
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00711.html (7,642 bytes)

254. Re: Good News/Bad News: blowing headgaskets (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:41:18 -0800
I've been talking with Mordy Dunst of the Gasket Works and he has commented that MGB blocks tend to be stronger on one side than the other and that they are prone to deforming and such. I have a few
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00714.html (9,701 bytes)

255. Re: Good News/Bad News: blowing headgaskets (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:27:51 -0800
I've heard from some who went through this with his GT2 Tiger that the bigger studs/higher torque just deform the block and cause problems. No, but I need to remove the block to take the block to the
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00789.html (13,797 bytes)

256. Permission to post? (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:53:35 -0800
I've been collecting all of my posts about the long saga of Jasmine's resurrection. When I get a chance, I'd like to post them up on her webpage so that others can learn from my experience and have a
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00790.html (7,127 bytes)

257. Re: Engine Conversions and fuel economy: (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:15:38 -0800
On the flip side, you can run an ethanol engine at much higher compression, regaining some of that back in higher efficiency. However, I've heard that the actual environmental effects of an ethanol s
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00796.html (9,658 bytes)

258. Re: Fw: mgb conversion (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:21:28 -0800
Last year I posted info about a guy that was selling two of them in Watsonville California. I heard an ad on KPIG (they have free "hogcall" dial in ads on the station, like KFATs "fatgrams"), got the
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00797.html (9,744 bytes)

259. Padded dash (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:34:51 -0800
I finally scrounged up a dashboard to cannibalize for making my custom dash without having to do without a dashboard in the meantime. The problem being that it is in perfect condition and I'd feel ki
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00804.html (7,708 bytes)

260. Re: Good News/Bad News: some answers, some questions (score: 1)
Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:57:49 -0800
All the pictures in the bgbig directory tree are 1600x1200. I haven't cropped them because I'd rather sleep tonight than spend the time. I pulled the head tonight. The good news is that I did someth
/html/mgs/2003-01/msg00807.html (12,391 bytes)


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