Not a big fan of the seats- I am sure that they could have done better.
MGA + V8 = zoom
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, Sep 11 2012 11:16 AM
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Posted 11 September 2012 - 11:16 AM
There were several Anglo-American V-8 conversions on display at the Chicago British Car Show 2012, but this one is my favorite:
Not a big fan of the seats- I am sure that they could have done better.
Not a big fan of the seats- I am sure that they could have done better.
That's thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten.
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Posted 11 September 2012 - 12:54 PM
Ooh, one of my favorite body styles! I can't imagine doing a tune up on that thing! I think they must have pulled the fenders to get the motor in there. That is one tight squeeze!
And I agree with you. Those seats don't do the car justice.
And I agree with you. Those seats don't do the car justice.
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Posted 11 September 2012 - 01:13 PM
Buick engine?
Olds(Rover)?
SB Ford?
Olds(Rover)?
SB Ford?
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Posted 11 September 2012 - 02:35 PM
Buick/Pontiac/Olds/Rover 215CI (3.5L) V8
My neighbor has one in his .................... TR8
A friend also had one in his boat back in the '70s. It was an I/O set up.
And Bill Dale, my "boutique" amature winder back in '68-70 did a small block Chevy in a Austin Healy 3000
My neighbor has one in his .................... TR8
A friend also had one in his boat back in the '70s. It was an I/O set up.
And Bill Dale, my "boutique" amature winder back in '68-70 did a small block Chevy in a Austin Healy 3000
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Posted 11 September 2012 - 03:04 PM
" 215CI Olds" Terry "Rhino" Hreno had one in a Vega. It was a hoot!
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"Everything you love, everything meaningful with depth and history, all passionate authentic experiences will be appropriated, mishandled, watered down, cheapened, repackaged, marketed, and sold to people you hate." Von Dutch [Kenneth R. Howard] 1929-1992
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"Everything you love, everything meaningful with depth and history, all passionate authentic experiences will be appropriated, mishandled, watered down, cheapened, repackaged, marketed, and sold to people you hate." Von Dutch [Kenneth R. Howard] 1929-1992
."If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Pheonix." Dr Hunter S Thompson 1937-2005
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Posted 11 September 2012 - 03:14 PM
The 200HP 215CID Aluminum Block Olds/Buick motor was a great motor. My sister had a '63 Skylark Convertible with one. Looking at the motor, this definitely looks like one.
I rebuilt my sisters motor in my High School Auto Shop class. It was a great project. But getting parts for it was no easy task even in 1978. I remember carrying the empty block around the shop with 1 hand!
I rebuilt my sisters motor in my High School Auto Shop class. It was a great project. But getting parts for it was no easy task even in 1978. I remember carrying the empty block around the shop with 1 hand!
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Posted 11 September 2012 - 10:07 PM
MG, agreed - lose those seats.
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Posted 12 September 2012 - 12:10 AM
Back in the late 60's a local had a TR3 with a 350HP/327 in it. It was wicked fast and street racing was pretty big time around here. I never got to race him............................The MG looks like it might be a Nailhead??
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Posted 12 September 2012 - 08:37 AM
The old Buick 215 has had a long and successful life. It is in fact still being made. It is the rest of the worlds Small Block Chevy. The most common version is the 4.0/4.2/4.6 versions used in Range Rovers. But the better news is very little of the fundamentals about the engine has changed. None of the block bolt patterns have changed. So you can bolt an original Buick 215 head on to a 4.6 Range Rover motor. You can put the Edelbrock 215 inlet manifold with a Holley carb and bolt it straight onto a late model Range Rover. I have a Triumph TR8 with the stock Rover 3.5 engine, a Range Rover 4.6 is currently being prepped for installation over the winter.
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Posted 12 September 2012 - 04:17 PM
If your talking v8 British cars here's my 1957 Austin Healey 100-6
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Posted 12 September 2012 - 05:02 PM
In the early 70s. I has a speed shop in Texas. One that ran out of my shop had a Austin Healey that had a Corvett 370 HP crate motor and a close ratio muncy 4 speed. I shortened a 12 bolt rear end and put 4:56s in it with traction slapper bars. With street tires. It would run loow 12s. With 10 in. slicks. It was a solid mid 11 second STREET LEGAL 
car. (remember early 70s). I wanted to do my magic on the motor but he never let me do any work on it. Still....Even with a crate motor it was wickedly fast for a drivable street legal car. It ONLY weighed 2100 pounds
The old nailhead, had valve covers that kinda looked like that, Buicks were heavy boat ankers....all torque but lots of it down low.
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car. (remember early 70s). I wanted to do my magic on the motor but he never let me do any work on it. Still....Even with a crate motor it was wickedly fast for a drivable street legal car. It ONLY weighed 2100 poundsThe old nailhead, had valve covers that kinda looked like that, Buicks were heavy boat ankers....all torque but lots of it down low.
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Posted 12 September 2012 - 05:09 PM
That's a very nice ride! Think I'll go watch "Blue Hawaii" with Elvis Presley. Anyone who has seen the movie may recall the red MGA his girlfriend was driving to pick him up at the airport - in the beginning of the movie!
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Posted 12 September 2012 - 05:51 PM
Man, that 100-6 is SWEET! You had some serious body work done on that car. Can you say FLARES
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