WSpohn4@aol.com wrote:
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> <<From: "Edwin McCarroll" <emccarroll@mco.edu>
> Subject: MGA - More power to it
>
> An MGA is up for sale locally. It has no engine nor gear box.
> I can't recall of anyone putting in a v-8 in one of these cars. Has it =
> been done? Can it be done without super problems? Any
> recommendations.>>
>
> Yes - if you must indulge your knuckle dragging tendencies, for the love of
> Abingdon apply them to something a bit more mundane like an MGB. There are
> lots of ropy ones around that wouldn't be much of a loss (leaving the good
> ones to people that enjoy them). There are few enough good MGAs about, and the
> one you are talking about sounds as if it just needs a heart transplant from
> tehsaid ropy MGB.
> It is also much easier to do a conversion on the B, as you don't have the
> forward braces from the firewall to the front suspension to deal with. They
> get in the way of just about any V8 exhaust and before you ask, _NO_ you can't
> just cut them out.
>
> Bill S.
knuckle dragging, huh. I guess you would include Shelby and the like in
that group. Me, I'd be proud to be classed with ol' Shel and folks like
him. John
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