Keith:
I think the DCOE with correct chokes can get excellent highway
mileage. 45 DCOE with 33 chokes got 28-30 mpg driving from Colorado to
California. 70 MGB, 87 octane, OD trans with 195/60 14 tires. Average
speed was around 65 (the 55 mph speedlimit was strictly enforced). I
richened the main jets when I got down to 2000 feet. Tail pipe stayed a
nice light grey. The same setup has worked well on my 65B for 85 mile
daily commutes. Top end power with the small chokes is probably less
than with SUs', but idle and low end are smooth and strong.
Kelvin.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Wheeler [mailto:keithw@sand.net]
> Sent: Monday, December 21, 1998 10:08 AM
> To: mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Fuel, ugly paint
>
>
> Fuel consumption:
>
> I swear it's true! I *once* got 29 MPG from my 'B. This
> was on The Trek Out West (moving from Arkansas to California).
> Crusing at 85 to 90 in the Arizona desert. The car ran a little
> hot, but not too bad. Maybe a DCOE is a happy carb when it's
> opened up.
>
> Or maybe it was just the desert air...
>
> Ugly paint:
>
> Eric Erickson wrote:
>
> >>
> >> ....Canary yellow with Orange stripe down middle of bonnet and
> >> boot...Orange MG logo on bonnet and doors...
> >>
> >
> >May I be the first to say... YUK! Who in their right mind would do
> >*that* to an MG?
> >
> >We are getting quite a few MGF's cruising around Adelaide
> now and they
> >are all nice, solid metallic colours (blues and greens
> mostly). Canary
> >yellow with an orange stripe...?
>
>
> Yep. Never know what folks will do to a poor MG. There was
> some fellar
> what painted a couple of 'em funky, one dark green with a
> bright yellow
> chin panel and the t'other dark green with a red chin panel. They
> were all modified and stuff, non-original body panels and other
> unspeakable acts. Heck, he even went so far as to give 'em a
> non-stock name: MGC GTS. ;)
>
> When I was very young, my dad had an *orange* Bugeye, and his best
> bud had a *purple* one--late sixties/early seventies. They used to
> drive 'em side by side in one lane, must've killed the eyebones of
> hundreds of poor drivers.
>
> -Keith Wheeler
> Team Sanctuary http://www.teamsanctuary.com/
>
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