Hi Brit car people,
Hopefully I'll be back on the net as soon as mjb does his thing. My
Midget is running fine. I bought a used 1500 Spit motor and tranny with
overdrive for just $200 and they both have only 40 000 miles on them as
the car was in a fire and just left to stand. So I've torn down the motor
and am getting ready to spend a horrible amount of $$ getting it machined
and for parts so it will hopefully hurtle the Midget up to warp 9 faster
than a Scottsman bends over to pick up half'a crown. And I will fit the
OD tranny. And all the suspension will be uprated, either nylatron bushes
or urethane bushes, tubes shocks, "thick" anti-roll, rebuilt kink-pins etc.
I've realised, through sweat, $$, and research, that you MUST get the
combination of performance parts right. So I'm still searching for a machine
shop who can modify the head and have a cam matched to those mods.
A tip: I remeber many months ago someone trying to get the crank pully
retaining nut off. With my "new" 1500 engine I tried for 5 days with
WD 40, heat, and I broke several tools (eg my torque wrench), trying to the
thing off. NO JOY. Then the guy over the road said to bring the motor
over, I did, and he used the impact driver (powered by air) and the nut was
off in about 1 second!!
Anyway, hope you are all well.
Cheers dennis (now in Az)
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