Clausager relates that the MGC engine is derived both from the A-H
3-liter and the BMC Australia 2.4 liter Blue Streak 6, which had 7 main
bearings compared to the Austin's 4. The C had the bore and stroke of the
Austin with the bottom end design of the Blue Streak. So your "unlikely
song-and-dance" was true.
The original BMC C series 6 cyl. engine (2.6 liter, as in the A-H 100-6)
was based on the Austin B-series 4 with 2 cylinders added, as you say,
but apparently intended for automotive use from the first (Austin,
Morris, Riley, Wolseley saloons).
The last vehicle to receive the 1800 B-series engine was apparently the
"Sherpa", which seems to have been some sort of small lorry. Can any UK
listers confirm this?
Johnmowog@aol.com had this to say:
>For years I heard an unlikely song-and-dance about how the C motor was
>actually just a rework of the Healey 6. Didn't seem logical given how stingy
>they were about creating new stuff for limited production...
>Finally last year in a now- forgotton issue of a British magazine I read
>that
>the C motor was basicly the industrial version (read Forklift( of the B
>motor
>with 2 cyls added. This somehow makes more sense, and I also read that the
>1800 is still in production for such industrial products. Makes me wonder if
>they're still turning out the 6 as well..? Any other info out there?
>
>
>
>----------------partial original message-----------------
>From: KGROWLER@aol.com
>Subject: Engine Lineage (Was Maita & MG Stuff
>
>
>This all makes me want to look up the quote I think was about the MGC engine
>that said (and I am paraphrasing) -
>"The engine seemed to be the work of a marine engine designer who was
>transferred to the agricultural engine department against his will"
>
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
Runs great,
looks particularly bad since some SUV clown backed into it.
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.
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