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Re: Suspension

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Subject: Re: Suspension
From: Max Heim <mvheim@attbi.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:30:37 -0800
This is an interesting thread from a trivia standpoint. So, they essentially
raised the bodyshell 2 inches while keeping the motor at the same height
relative to the ground plane? I can actually see how they might have done
that -- since the motor mount brackets form a shallow vee, if they widened
the vee for the V8 (as seems likely), then you could see how the L4 could be
made to sit lower relative to the shell with the right motor mounts. There
is actually a reason for this besides CG -- to maintain the driveshaft
U-joint angles, which otherwise would have become more acute. Anyone want to
take some measurements to confirm this rumor? Bottom of oil pan to ground
might be the simplest, though not absolutely definitive.

on 3/18/02 8:18 AM, Maynard Hirsch at mghirsch@netzero.net wrote:

> I was a little unclear when I said the engine was lowered.  What MG did,
> (according to Tom Josefek of British Motor Classics) was that they kept the
> engine at the orginal height when they raised the body for the rubber
> bumpers.
> 
> Maynard Hirsch
> 


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires

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