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RE: 79 B HP rating?

To: "'Keith Gernert'" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
Subject: RE: 79 B HP rating?
From: Steve Shoyer <Steve@shoyer.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:09:45 -0400
According to a Road & Track test in 1979, the car put out 62.5 SAE net bhp
at 4600 rpm.  That was down from 92 at 5500 in 1962, according to the
article.

--Steve (1980 MGB)

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Gernert [mailto:kgernert@triad.rr.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 12:41 PM
To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: 79 B HP rating?


I was perusing an MG book at the local Barnes & Noble when I ran 
across a sentence proclaiming that the pollution-controlled MG 
engines had "considerably less than the original 95 HP."  If that's true, 
a V8 swap is starting to look a lot better...

Not being able to find a HP rating in my manuals, I was wondering:
What was the official HP rating for a 1979 MGB?


--
Keith Gernert
79 MGB
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