Rear of the midget minus bumper. Need to trim down that exhaust pipe! 

Front of the midget minus bumpers. Need to address that lack of grill and indicators...somehow? 

Midget photos.

Trying to upload some pictures of the midget without its bumpers.

Midget works.

Well a constructive day spent playing with the 1978 midget. We decided to put it on a diet and removed the rubber bumpers, as they weigh far too much and just restrict the performance of the car. It's only got 68hp so taking weight off has to help!

So having removed the front bumper it became obvious that there is going to have to be an indicator change as the stanard one fits into the bumper and leaves a sodding great hole in each wing. Added to that the holes in each wing are 1/4 of an inch different in height!! Typical MG engineering. So have purchased some nice flat circular indicators that will have to be mountedsome how. I feel a metal plate going into the hole and some small welding coming on.

Took the rear bumper off and not much to do really just a bit of tidying up with the rear lenses.

Will try and post some photos of what i am blathering about tomorrow.

note no mention of christmas! (Damn)

Put to Bed.

Well the B has now been put away into the hanger until Feb next year. I might get her out on New Years Day if its a pleaseant one. Otherwise its full steam ahead on modifing the midget. Lots to do oil cooler, de-bumper,tune and generally make sure everything is spot on. Unlike at the beginning of last season!
I will keep a note here of what gets done and how it all goes, expect much ranting!!

The seasonaly visits to relations start this weekend, but I am expecting a huge hang over tomorrow morning as we are going to Motorola's Christmas party tonight in London FREE BAR!

Pictures!!

As promised pictures from the photo shoot.

More arty shots! 

Gear Stick with lock out 

Arty 

On the farm! 

Glaring! 

Rev counter 

Oil Catch tank 

Rear of BGT on TotalMG shoot 

In Print!

Well way back in the beginning of September i was involved with a photo shoot for Total MG magazine. Its out now , today in fact! Not a bad article 6 pages with loads of great photos that once i have had the slides scanned on to cd i will post here.
Good to see the car made the front page too, and that all my friends who helped with the rebuild got a decent mention to.
So photos to follow hopefully tomorrow.

Phantom Grip LSD fitted into diff. 

Jaguar XJ220  

Aston Martin DB5. Ready to be exercised. 

Holidays Holidays.

Well I've been off for about a week and a half now so totally chilled out. Been playing with cars most of the time from my MGB to such amazing vehicles as an XJ220 and a Aston Mrtin DB5.

I have now got the phantom grip LSd fitted into the diff thanks to Cambridge Motorsport. Also i have got it in the car more importantly. It has changed the driving character of the B quite dramaically. It's so much easier to power slide and trust the break away will not happen also the sheer grunt now has increased. Handling on corners i havent fully tested and really need to get her out onto a track to see the change. But that will have to wait until next year I think meanwhile Kate gave me a Aldon performace distributor for my birthday so I will have to fit that to the engine over the winter and the Weber carb needs a overhaul too. Many hours to be spent in the garage.
I am upto about 6 GB loaded in itunes so far god it takes time! Easy but time consuming.
must tidy this office...........

Firework Party

Well went off with a bang. We had loads of fireworks and some really good ones. I hopefully will post some pics here later once I get hold of them fromEzz. We started off at about 7ish for the bonfire which we held on the side of the emergency runway for Popham. A good size bonfire about 7 feet tall and with a splendid guy ontop too. I then started setting off whta seemed like a thousand fireworks but probably only about 999!
With help form jonathan seager with the maglite i set about the explosives great fun loads of ooohhs and aahhhhs allround. A speed landrover back to the hopuse meant i could get a head start on organising the food before everyone came back to the kitchen! Next year we are going to have food by the bonfire i think.
Food was a chilli (didnt get any) a vegatable curry (didnt get any) and a prawn curry which i did get some of and it was great. I presume the other two dishes were good as they was none left! Puddings of chocolate roulade and tiramisu from Laura and Sue were fantastic thanks Ladies. So onto the alcohol beer and wine drank by most was a really nice evening and i must thanks all of those who managed to make it. A great evening and Kate and I will try and top it next year!

Wireless GO!

Well thanks to Andy Seager for a long term loan of a wireless access point I now have a wireless network at home. Very easy install just plug and surf. Cheers mate!

Now just getting ready for the Firework party tonight...............photos later.

Broad Band

Hurrah! Fianlly caught up with the rest of the world and got BB enabled even though we are miles from anywhere!! Shame it was only BT that said yes, but never mind. Gives me something to grumble about.
Just got to sort out a wireless network for the rest of the house!

Phantom Gripper LSD

So have now received my Phantom Grip http://www.phantomgrip.com/ diff locker from Cambridge Motorsport http://www.cambridgemotorsport.com/ . Put it against my spare diff last night and found that it is about 1/16 of an inch too wide for the planet gears.
Not impressed! I phoned CM and they have fantastically agreed to fit the locker for free!!Yippee! All I have to do now is remove the 3.9 ratio diff from the banjo axle and strip it down to send to them, or i could be cheeky and send them the complete unit.....

First Blog!!

AAAAAHHHHHH it had to happen eventually! Working with a bunch of geeks has had an effect and i have now started blogging!!

Silverstone and the chicane. 

Me at Curborough in the wrong place on the track!!