Just to chime in, I crossed the central valley once on my old motor, before
I had the OD, at a steady 85mph for a couple hours. On my current motor,
with OD, I would think I could give a pretty good run at 100mph, at least
with the hardtop on. Though in fact I wouldn't really want to attempt it,
the wire wheels being old and the tires not speed-rated.
Albert has an RBB, though, and I don't think they ever saw the high side of
90 even when new, so cut him some slack...
on 5/10/02 10:00 AM, Eric at eric@erickson.on.net wrote:
> Aeseeyou@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> In a message dated 5/10/02 3:11:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>> paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk writes:
>>>>> My roadster is smooth at an indicated 100 and everything up to it. The V8
>>>>> ditto at an indicated 120
>> Dear fellow MGB owner,
>> Am I missing something here? You do mean KPH's don't you? You surely can not
>> mean 100 MPH...Or, are you trying to tell me that your "B" can actually go
>> 100 mph? I don't think my stock "B" (56,000 mi.) will go 80 mph even going
>> downhill with a tail wind pushing me along, ha, ha, ha!
>> -=Safety-Fast=-
>
> Then, Albert, I think your car has a problem (or you need to go on a diet:-)
>
> I was able to do 80mph with a tired 200,000+ miles motor with a burnt valve!
>
> You might also need to take that -=Safety-Fast=- out of your .sig :-)
>
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