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To: Jack Emery <jemery@mint.net>
Subject: Re: rambling.No real content, delete if easily bored.
From: Jim Stuart <jimbb88@erols.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 22:55:13 -0500
Cc: mgb-v8@autox.team.net
References: <3.0.32.20000331205852.006fa94c@pop.mint.net>
Reply-to: Jim Stuart <jimbb88@erols.com>
Sender: owner-mgb-v8@autox.team.net
Jack-

yes, have lengthened the cowl, added the steel dash, 2 wipers, not 3. The 67
speaker  surround does not fit, so I am modifying a 68. Not sure how it will
turn out yet.

Jim

Jack Emery wrote:

> At 01:13 AM 3/31/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >Well, its late, 12:30, its been a pretty good week. Things are coming
> >together on the new project, a completely counterfeit 1978 V8 Roadster
> >becoming a 1967. The A/C fits, the engine bay is clean enough to paint,
> >& I think I have finally decided on a color for the car, dark British
> >Racing Green.
>
> A '67 V-8 in dark BRG hmmmmm, the guy has good taste after all.  Did you do
> the steel dash?
>
> Snip, snip
> >
> >We seem to have become a loose sort of fraternity, thanks to Kurt & the
> >V8 newsletter, & the miracle of the internet. The amount of information
> >& help is truly amazing. When I did the first conversion, all we had was
> >a reprint of the Hot Rod article, a copy of a pamphlet on converting a
> >MG, author/source unknown, and some helpful info from Glenn Towery, who
> >had done 2 or 3 conversions at that point. What a difference now! We
> >invented almost everything we could not copy from the scant info
> >available about Factory V8's. What we didn't know was legend. When we
> >started, we didn't have a clue as to what transmission would work.
>
> in '91 I inquired of the then British car list about steering mods to fit
> the v-8 and got not one answer about steering but a week long lecture on
> brakes!!!
>
> I had 5 minute look at Glens car and a B-V8 shop manual.  I ended up
> solving problems already solved by others and wasted a lot of time.  Lucky
> for me my Brit parts warehouse could supply my headers and radiator but
> when I asked for the factory V-8 oil pump base I learned that the smaller
> the part the more it costs....like about $220 back in '92.  Suddenly my
> factory type conversion became a hot rod and I haven't looked back.
>
> The best source of info then and now is the newsletter.....
>
> And Jim is spot on, the B V-8 is the best affordable sportscar around to
> actually drive.  Garage queens and trailer cars are a couple of my hot keys.
> Jack Emery
> Glenburn Maine
> 207-884-8523
> '67 MGB V-8
> '75 MGB V-8
> '80 TR7 v-6
> various other hot rods


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