- 1. 79 B HP rating? (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 12:40:41 -0400
- 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
- /html/mgs/2000-04/msg00554.html (7,322 bytes)
- 2. Re: 79 B HP rating? (score: 1)
- Author: "Andrew B. Lundgren" <lundgren@iname.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 10:44:45 -0600 (MDT)
- Many people pull off the pollution controls, restoring the power. Andrew Lundgren Lundgren@iname.com http://www.itwest.net/~lundgren
- /html/mgs/2000-04/msg00556.html (7,732 bytes)
- 3. Re: 79 B HP rating? (score: 1)
- Author: Dan DiBiase <dibiase@home.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 13:41:58 -0400
- My 76B has had the pollution stuff removed by the PO. Never having driven any other MG, I can't comment on the comparitive power. However, my car does have a kind of 'lumpy' idle, which is why I keep
- /html/mgs/2000-04/msg00557.html (7,497 bytes)
- 4. RE: 79 B HP rating? (score: 1)
- Author: 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) I was perusing an MG book a
- /html/mgs/2000-04/msg00559.html (7,671 bytes)
- 5. Re: 79 B HP rating? (score: 1)
- Author: "Ted S." <cessna@speakeasy.org>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 11:26:50 -0700
- holy crap -- Original Message -- From: "Steve Shoyer" <Steve@shoyer.com> To: "'Keith Gernert'" <kgernert@triad.rr.com> Cc: <mgs@autox.team.net> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 11:09 AM Subject: RE: 79
- /html/mgs/2000-04/msg00560.html (8,267 bytes)
- 6. Re: 79 B HP rating? (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith Gernert" <kgernert@triad.rr.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 18:10:13 -0400
- My thanks to those who replied. -- Keith G.
- /html/mgs/2000-04/msg00567.html (6,964 bytes)
- 7. Re: 79 B HP rating? (score: 1)
- Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 10:41:19 -0700
- MGB horsepower through the years, from R&T test data: 1963 - 94hp @ 5500 1966 - 98 @ 5400 1968-71 - 92 @ 5400 1973 - 79 @ 5350 1976 - 62.5 @ 5000 1979 - 62.5 @ 4600 1980 - 67 @ 4900 All figures are S
- /html/mgs/2000-04/msg00645.html (8,411 bytes)
- 8. Re: 79 B HP rating? (score: 1)
- Author: "mrayborn" <mrayborn@merlin.ebicom.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 13:47:29 -0500
- I can attest to the ACTUAL difference in horsepower ratings. I have a '76B, Zenith carb, with all smog stuff intact and operable. It is quick around the corners, but acceleration didn't seem to be as
- /html/mgs/2000-04/msg00650.html (7,981 bytes)
- 9. Re: 79 B HP rating? (score: 1)
- Author: Dan DiBiase <dibiase@home.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 08:43:55 -0400
- After I purchased my 76 RBB Roadster, I needed a new muffler (to replace the holed Ansa-type the PO had installed) so I brought it to Midas/Meineke/whatever. The technician was so taken with the car
- /html/mgs/2000-04/msg00664.html (7,404 bytes)
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