Leckstein wrote:
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> At 03:45 PM 3/17/97 -0600, SLUPECKI A. wrote:
> >There was a 1975 set-up with a single Zenith carb and no cat. The
> manifold is
> >identical to the later setup, but the front piece of the exhaust system is
> >different; the rest of the exhaust is the same.
> >
> >It is very common for people to remove the cat and replace with this exhaust
> >system, but based on your year, yours is stock.
> >
> >Andy Slupecki
> >78B (with 75 exhaust pipe)
> >___________________________________________________________________________
> ____
> >From: Michael Sosnow on Mon, Mar 17, 1997 3:28 PM
> >Subject: Catalytic Converter?
> >To: mgs@autox.team.net
> >
> >I have been told that starting in 1975 all American MGBs were equipped
> >with a converter unless they are really 1974 1/2s. My 1975 MGB does not
> >have a catalytic converter although it is equipped with the single
> >zenith carb. Anybody know if it is stock or modified?
> >
Michael-
I am 99% sure that Federalized (49-state) cars were sold without the cat
through the early part of 1975. California prepped vehicles were all
fitted with cats. If I am correct, your car could be original without
the cat.
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