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Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Sunday, March 06, 2005
Awards.
Had a great time last night at the MG Car Club South West Centre's dinner. Which is also the awards evening for the MGCC Speed Championship.
I collected my award for Second place in group 3 Road Going Modified MG's. And Kate collected her award for First in class for Standard Midget upto 1500cc!!
A great first year for Kate and a good development year for me too.
Onwards now to the start of the season. We have a shake down day at Curborogh on tuesday which is always lots of fun and a good day to learn how things handle.
I collected my award for Second place in group 3 Road Going Modified MG's. And Kate collected her award for First in class for Standard Midget upto 1500cc!!
A great first year for Kate and a good development year for me too.
Onwards now to the start of the season. We have a shake down day at Curborogh on tuesday which is always lots of fun and a good day to learn how things handle.
Friday, February 25, 2005
Monday, February 21, 2005
Bad Blogger....
Well I have been really busy doing stuff on both cars getting ready for the up coming season and that means blogging gets a back seat. Oh and I've been busy at work too! So sorry for being a bad blogger.
Midget.
I have now got hold of some stick on number plates (photo's soon) www.fancyplates.com Really helpful people and a quick service too. Also made the new grill. I used a 1275cc midget grill and cut out the centre piece and flattened off and resprayed black. Then Andy cut out a mesh piece to fit inside it which I bonded in place. The grill is now installed and looks really cool, just have to attach it at the to edge for rigidity. next is fitting the newly acquired electronic ignition kit that was purchased from ebay. Out with the timing light and lots of fiddling about under the bonnet.
MGB.
So I have been sponsored by Summit Motorport in Maidenhead for my tyres this year. www.summitmg.co.uk Which is fantastic news. I have bought a set of Revolution Racing wheels and have had a set of Yokohama 032 racing tyres fitted. These are basically road legal cut slicks so not much grip in the wet.
Also had the B tuned now and lets just say I am really pleased with the performance of the engine.
Stoneleigh.
Went to Stoneleigh spares day yesterday, which is the largest MG spares day of the whole year. Managed to pick up some bargains for the B and Midget. And got some wheels for a friend too. I manged to find some anti surge plates for my engine mounts on the B. These stop the engine from leaning forward under heavy braking and nudging into the radiator. Not something I want to happen!
Next....
Well got the Awards dinner coming up in a couple of weeks time and also a shake down test at Curborogh. so this should let me iron out any niggles that happen hopefully.
Well if you got though all that thanks!
Midget.
I have now got hold of some stick on number plates (photo's soon) www.fancyplates.com Really helpful people and a quick service too. Also made the new grill. I used a 1275cc midget grill and cut out the centre piece and flattened off and resprayed black. Then Andy cut out a mesh piece to fit inside it which I bonded in place. The grill is now installed and looks really cool, just have to attach it at the to edge for rigidity. next is fitting the newly acquired electronic ignition kit that was purchased from ebay. Out with the timing light and lots of fiddling about under the bonnet.
MGB.
So I have been sponsored by Summit Motorport in Maidenhead for my tyres this year. www.summitmg.co.uk Which is fantastic news. I have bought a set of Revolution Racing wheels and have had a set of Yokohama 032 racing tyres fitted. These are basically road legal cut slicks so not much grip in the wet.
Also had the B tuned now and lets just say I am really pleased with the performance of the engine.
Stoneleigh.
Went to Stoneleigh spares day yesterday, which is the largest MG spares day of the whole year. Managed to pick up some bargains for the B and Midget. And got some wheels for a friend too. I manged to find some anti surge plates for my engine mounts on the B. These stop the engine from leaning forward under heavy braking and nudging into the radiator. Not something I want to happen!
Next....
Well got the Awards dinner coming up in a couple of weeks time and also a shake down test at Curborogh. so this should let me iron out any niggles that happen hopefully.
Well if you got though all that thanks!
Monday, January 17, 2005
What a sunday!
WOW! what a day loads done on the B. Went over to Chris's today to fit the Aldon dizzy and sort out the Weber carb. All done with a bit of a phaf about the optical cutter on the new 43D dizzy but fortunatley Ian saved the day with his spares. So refitted that then started to service the weber with the required gaskets and o rings the at it badly needed.
Whilst Chris and I were attacking the carb Ian was merrily drilling out my ignition barrel and removing it from the steering column. Also we had made up a loom for the new starter switch that has now been installed in the dashboard. This was really essential as wheni was strapped in I couldnt reach the ignition key and thats not good!
So have done all that Chris also made up the wiring for the midgets new front indicators. So they are ready to go into the wings no. FAB! all coming together for the start of the season.
Now all I need to do is get the B rolling road tuned and thats it!! Yippee.
Whilst Chris and I were attacking the carb Ian was merrily drilling out my ignition barrel and removing it from the steering column. Also we had made up a loom for the new starter switch that has now been installed in the dashboard. This was really essential as wheni was strapped in I couldnt reach the ignition key and thats not good!
So have done all that Chris also made up the wiring for the midgets new front indicators. So they are ready to go into the wings no. FAB! all coming together for the start of the season.
Now all I need to do is get the B rolling road tuned and thats it!! Yippee.
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
More Midget work.
Well fitted the pipes for the oil cooler now and the base adpator plate. Quite straight forward really. Also bought some indicator that were used on a Healey to use.
Raised a list of jobs that need to be completed before end of Feb and its quite long but not impossible, just bitty little things to sort out like number plates, indicators, new grill, towing eyes that sort of thing.
Well had my sister down from Edinburgh and found out that the MOT on her Landy ran out on the 18th December! Not impressed! So managed to get it into a local garage for a quick MOT to find out what it would fail on and was pleasantly surprised that it was relativley OK. It did fail on a couple of points the front outriggers (hold the body onto the chassis) were in need of some welding and the rear fog lamp was failing. So i called the troops Chris Cooper and Ian Tapner and we met up at Chris's workshop. After fourr fabricated plates for the outriggers and chassis Chris had done a fantastic job and the chassis looked really good. So onto the lamp. It turned out to be both the lamp at the back and the fuse holder inside the cab! So a quick change of the internals of the lamp and a clean up of the fuse holder and were done! Thanks chaps.
Next morning back to the MOT station for a retest and all was find and got a ticket. Then frog marched my sister down to the Post Office to get a new tax disc and send her on her way to Edinburgh!
Raised a list of jobs that need to be completed before end of Feb and its quite long but not impossible, just bitty little things to sort out like number plates, indicators, new grill, towing eyes that sort of thing.
Well had my sister down from Edinburgh and found out that the MOT on her Landy ran out on the 18th December! Not impressed! So managed to get it into a local garage for a quick MOT to find out what it would fail on and was pleasantly surprised that it was relativley OK. It did fail on a couple of points the front outriggers (hold the body onto the chassis) were in need of some welding and the rear fog lamp was failing. So i called the troops Chris Cooper and Ian Tapner and we met up at Chris's workshop. After fourr fabricated plates for the outriggers and chassis Chris had done a fantastic job and the chassis looked really good. So onto the lamp. It turned out to be both the lamp at the back and the fuse holder inside the cab! So a quick change of the internals of the lamp and a clean up of the fuse holder and were done! Thanks chaps.
Next morning back to the MOT station for a retest and all was find and got a ticket. Then frog marched my sister down to the Post Office to get a new tax disc and send her on her way to Edinburgh!
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Sunday, December 26, 2004
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)
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)
Saturday, December 11, 2004
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!
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!
Sunday, November 28, 2004
Saturday, November 27, 2004
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