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Re: Engine replacement options (non-MG)?

To: Der schwarze Buccaneer <js-allen@students.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Engine replacement options (non-MG)?
From: Art Pfenninger <ch155@FreeNet.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:34:11 -0500 (EST)
        There is an ad in Hemmings for information on putting a v6 into a
B ...Art

On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Der schwarze Buccaneer wrote:

>       Well, it seems my engine is going to need alot done to it,  and, 
> by the time the costs are added up, I could just as easily plant a 
> rebuilt used American motor under the hood.  I know this is blashphemy 
> and is being tossed about in some other threads, but I have a more general 
> question.
>       Does anyone have a listing of engines that have been transplanted 
> into MGB's?  Four-bangers, V-6's, V-8's, and any others?  I'd really like 
> an inexpensive easy to maintain and easy to obtain parts for American 
> 4-cyclinder (or perhaps Japanese), that would require the least in terms 
> of modifications to the car's mounting points, brake system, 
> transmission, and such.  I'm not looking for more power, though I'm not 
> shunning it either.  I'm not highly knowledgeable about motor 
> terminology, so I probably need the types of vehicles the engines come 
> out of to be able to locate them (if I go this route, I'll prolly try to 
> order a factory rebuilt engine from an auto store).  
>       There use to be a company that sold a V-8 conversion kit for the 
> MGB that included a modified fitting between certain V-8's and the MGB 
> original transmission, but I've lost the old flyer.  I wonder if they 
> make one for 4-cyclinder engines (and if they're still in business)?  
> Thanks for any and all info!  
> 
> 
> 
>                                               -Scott Allen
>                                               js-allen@students.uiuc.edu
>                                       
>       "At dawn we will face the greatest test of our resolve.  But I 
> say this: though starving, hunger will not weaken us; though diseased, 
> illness will not cripple us, and though weary, exhaustion will not claim 
> us.  We can fight knowing that all true Reiklanders will forevermore 
> honour our valiant gesture of defiance, even though our bodies be left to 
> feed the beasts of carrion.
> 
>       Mind you...we could always surrender."  -Rick Priestly's Siege  
> 
> 


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