Yeah, I'd like to see it too. More than just seeing the car, I'd like to
see a real-time xray view of the crankshaft at 7,000 rpm. This
engineering sounds so bizzare to us, yet MG built its reputation in the
1920s & 30s doing this sort of thing, so it must have worked at least as
well as the competitors' engines. Maybe they did not know that this
couldn't be done, so they did it.
Bob
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000 06:03:42 -0800 (PST) Dan Dwelley <ddwelley@excite.com>
writes:
> Hmmm. I'd still like to see that setup! Capable of close to 120? For
> how
> long and how many times.Once? :o)
> It was a smaller engine but the stresses on the mains must have been
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> terrible.
>
> Dan Dwelley
> 77 Midget
> Alexandria, Va.
>
> > Dan,
> > A four cylinder engine with only two main bearings can,
> actually,
> > operate pretty well. MG used only two bearings on four cylinder
> engines
> > on a number of models. I think the PA was the first Midget
> engine to get
>
> > three mains, so the J, D and M cars had only two.
> > According to J. Wherry, in his book The MG Story, the J4 was
> said to
> > have been capable of close to 120 mph, in 1933, with 750cc
> supercharged.
> > However, I can find no reference in his book to any extended
> warranty
> > programs for the engines.
> > Bob
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