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Re: 79 B HP rating?

To: "'Keith Gernert'" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
Subject: Re: 79 B HP rating?
From: "Ted S." <cessna@speakeasy.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 11:26:50 -0700
holy crap
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Shoyer" <Steve@shoyer.com>
To: "'Keith Gernert'" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
Cc: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 11:09 AM
Subject: RE: 79 B HP rating?


> According to a Road & Track test in 1979, the car put out 62.5 SAE net bhp
> at 4600 rpm.  That was down from 92 at 5500 in 1962, according to the
> article.
>
> --Steve (1980 MGB)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Gernert [mailto:kgernert@triad.rr.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 12:41 PM
> To: mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: 79 B HP rating?
>
>
> I was perusing an MG book at the local Barnes & Noble when I ran
> across a sentence proclaiming that the pollution-controlled MG
> engines had "considerably less than the original 95 HP."  If that's true,
> a V8 swap is starting to look a lot better...
>
> Not being able to find a HP rating in my manuals, I was wondering:
> What was the official HP rating for a 1979 MGB?
>
>
> --
> Keith Gernert
> 79 MGB
> --
>


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