gfaber wrote:
>
> Hello fellow listers,
>
> Im a full time lurker, just took delivery my second spitfire, a 72, I
> use my 80 as a daily driver, Im so into this car
> I don't want to take it off the road to work on it , so I bought another
> one, I figure I can keep one on the road while
> the other receives TLC. Damn spit fever I guess!
> The motor on this car was a basket case, came in boxes, Im missing
> the cam , timing sprocket and covers, lots
> of small misc. parts, Block appears sound, Head is off and looks good,
> I was hoping it had a 1300 motor but
> I believe it's a 1500, serial # on the block is FP4096UE any help
> identifying this one? also I could probably use
> a donor engine to make up the missing parts, if anyone has a bad
> motor that I could use for parts, let me know
> Happy Motoring
> Cheers
> Gerry
Gerry,
Congratulations, you are the proud (or not) owner of a MG Midget 1500 engine.
But unless you have an aversion to putting an MG engine in a Spitfire, it is
physically the same as a Spitfire 1500.
Joe
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