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Engine replacement options (non-MG)?

To: List MGB <mgs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Engine replacement options (non-MG)?
From: Der schwarze Buccaneer <js-allen@students.uiuc.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 15:06:13 -0600 (CST)
        Well, it seems my engine is going to need alot done to it,  and, 
by the time the costs are added up, I could just as easily plant a 
rebuilt used American motor under the hood.  I know this is blashphemy 
and is being tossed about in some other threads, but I have a more general 
question.
        Does anyone have a listing of engines that have been transplanted 
into MGB's?  Four-bangers, V-6's, V-8's, and any others?  I'd really like 
an inexpensive easy to maintain and easy to obtain parts for American 
4-cyclinder (or perhaps Japanese), that would require the least in terms 
of modifications to the car's mounting points, brake system, 
transmission, and such.  I'm not looking for more power, though I'm not 
shunning it either.  I'm not highly knowledgeable about motor 
terminology, so I probably need the types of vehicles the engines come 
out of to be able to locate them (if I go this route, I'll prolly try to 
order a factory rebuilt engine from an auto store).  
        There use to be a company that sold a V-8 conversion kit for the 
MGB that included a modified fitting between certain V-8's and the MGB 
original transmission, but I've lost the old flyer.  I wonder if they 
make one for 4-cyclinder engines (and if they're still in business)?  
Thanks for any and all info!  



                                                -Scott Allen
                                                js-allen@students.uiuc.edu
                                        
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illness will not cripple us, and though weary, exhaustion will not claim 
us.  We can fight knowing that all true Reiklanders will forevermore 
honour our valiant gesture of defiance, even though our bodies be left to 
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