Keith:
After wandering around your perambulations a bit, I think I have it
figured out.
Ya got a 73 Midgie body in good nick, with knarly fender flares but
engine in bits.
Ya got a rubber bumper Midgie, all rusted out, but runs good.
Ya thinking about stuffing the 1500 from the RB into the 73 Midgie.
I could suggest that a relatively newly married person would have better
things to do with his time.
Methinks t'would be best to sell off the 1500 engines, since they are
tough to find in good nick pretty near any where else in the country.
Put the 1275 together with a good transmission. Sell off the Spitfires,
so you can put the money towards the spanky new supercharger Moss is
coming out with sometime (fingers crossed) soon.
When in Goleta California, watch out for a ratty looking bright orange
Midget.
Kelvin Dodd
Kelvin Dodd
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kmwheeler@ualr.edu [mailto:kmwheeler@ualr.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 11:24 AM
> To: Dodd, Kelvin
> Cc: mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: RE: Midget 1275 to 1500?
>
> Well, here goes...two stories:
>
> 1) I picked up a '73 Midget from the original owner. Car had been a
> street car, then a racer, and then taken apart.
> What is now sitting in the barn is a great mostly rust-free Midget on
> Comsics with nice wide fender flares, with
> the 'glass bonnet, boot lid, and front fenders up in the garage
rafters.
> Engine is in many pieces, with some
> really nice .060 competition pistons and all... Car came with all
sorts of
> TRS.
>
> 2) A couple of summers ago I traded two VW engines for a pair of
> Spitfires. One, a '67, was a race car back
> in the day, had a plexiglass windscreen, tiny seat, "Y" style 2"
harness,
> all sorts of old skool stuff. After researching
> a bit I found that the road racers stay(ed?) away from the 1500s due
to
> their love of barfing out con rods....BUT
> the Spitfire autocrossers prefer the 1500 for torque...
>
> And I thought "hmmm, I like torque... and I've got a rubber bumper
Midg
> with rotted floors and decent running
> engine...", and it seems to be a lot easier these days to find 1500s
for
> cores/parts than 1275s (maybe I'm
> not looking in the right places?). First off I just want to get an
engine
> in the thing to I can play with and move
> it around easier. You know how it is, it is so much easier to put
effort
> in to a car that can start and move
> than just a shell. The long term thought is if I can make the 1500
strong
> enough, maybe it is the way to go.
>
> -Keith Wheeler
> Team Sanctuary
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