Well, all my work has now traveled beyond the realm of off the shelf parts.
Within the last month I finished the CAD drawings for a three link rear with
narrowed T-bird disk brake posi, panhard rod, 4-piston front brakes w/
vented rotors, three master cyl setup w/bias bar, and the whole thing on
pushrod actuated adjustable coil overs, not to mention the conversion to a 5
speed at long last.
Then reality set in.
I remembered that I am still in school for another year and a half so the
coilovers have to wait. I am still gearing up to do the brakes, trans and
three link over the winter. As a compromise the leaf springs will be bolted
to pivoting brackets so that I can just swap them out for control arms when
I can afford coil overs next year.
I've been so busy at Honda though, that I haven't done a thing with email in
about three weeks.
James Nazarian
71 MGBGT V8
71 MGB Tourer
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgb-v8@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgb-v8@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of kmwheeler@ualr.edu
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 9:44 AM
To: mgb-v8@autox.team.net
Subject: V8 crowd slowing down?
Been kind of quiet here...just wondering if there's been a slow down in the
the number of conversion projects. It seems quite a few parts on e-bay that
would've been "way cool" to have a year or two ago are now only getting
lackluster bids.
Just wondering if we've reached saturation. It seems the supply of used
engines and such has overshot the demand.
I'm still plodding along with my conversion and working on my wife's TR8. A
mechanic buddy of mine is building a test stand for a 3.9 he has and I'm
building a "megasquirt" ECU to run it. If all goes well we'll use that on
my 'B and the wife's 8.
Anyone else to anything fun? And who here has a "hotwire" system in their
'B? What upper radiator hose did you use?
-Keith Wheeler
Team Sanctuary
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