Curt,
Check out this article for the Morgan overheating.
http://www.team.net/www/morgan/tech/art020.html
the entire index of Morgan tech articles is here.
http://www.team.net/www/morgan/tech/index.html
Yes, the site apply mostly to street vehicles, but the overheating article
had a lot of good research behind it. It was an interesting solution and
might just apply to your car too.
Regards,
Jack Brooks
TR3A
Hillsdale, NJ
> Greg,
> You will be delighted to recall that the VSCCA is of a similar mind
> as to vintage racing with the cars limited to pre 1960 trim. I run a TR-3
> engine in my funky 1959 Morgan. As of 1959, this is the largest engine
> avialable from Morgan. Fortunately, this sometimes enables me to
> compete in
> under two liter races! I do very well against MG-A's. For the most part I
> do this to keep from competing against the extremely tricked-out Morgans
> (and similar Triumphs) which are well over 2 liters with $10,000
> engines. I
> do feel that improvements as to safety and reliability should be permitted
> so I have installed roll bar, collapsible steering column (TR-7), low oil
> pressure cut-off, electric fuel pump and Mallory ignition; and I run the
> dics brakes introduced by Morgan in 1959. All the body panels are
> steel and
> mud. Cooling is a problem but I seem to have this in tenuous
> control with a
> recorred radiator and circulation from out of the rear of the block (the
> heater outlet) back to the top of the radiator. In all this car
> can compete
> against most of similar vintage and I assure you that I have as
> much fun as
> anyone else on the track for a fraction of the money.
> Thanks for your thoughts and comments on "Vintage racing".
> curt
> PS: I qualified at Lime Rock two weeks ago at 1:11, 9th in my class and
> lower than the other "expensive" Morgans in the other classes.
> Unfortunately, rain did me in as my car quit when I worked up to
> 5th place.
>
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