Clive.......
In 1963 a friend who was staying with me in Wimbledon had an M-type which
blew up its engine. I rebuilt his spare engine for him (didn't everone
have at least one?!) and had my first experience of driving an M when I
took it for a test drive.
Even though I have devoted most of my working life to "The Octagon" and
have driven many MGs to and past their limits, it boggles the mind to
think of anyone driving an M-type at over 95 mph knowing that flimsy
2-bearing crankshaft was rotating at over 7,000 r.p.m! (Unless, of
course, you are much older than you look and were doing this back when
the steel was relatively new and unstressed!!)
Interesting about the dynamo needing balancing, though. I'll have to
check the one on my PA engine.
Cheers,
Lawrie
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:34:17 -0400 C Sherriff
<Clives_page@compuserve.com> writes:
> Lawrie,
>
> As this is the MMM list not the T list - I could also point out that
>
> when I raced the 1929 M type I retained the original Flywheel and
> clutch - lightened quite a lot, and this did increase the
> flexibility a lot
> -
> The whole rotating mass was also meticulously balanced - not
> together
> as one lump, but correctly - crank first then C+Flywheel then +
> cover
> then plus fingers etc etc, pistons then rods - not just overall
> weight but
>
> end too end weights on each rod. Also balanced the vertical dynamo
> which cut out a certain odd harmonic too at high revs!. There were
> a
> lot of other things done but always using original spec components
> as
> the starting point.
>
> I would pull over 95 down the back straight at Silverstone! And
> would rev to over 7000.
>
> Clive
>
> ==================================================
> Message text written by Lawrie Alexander
> >> Lawrie -
> >
> > Indeed these flywheels help things go well!
> >
> > The important thing to stress here is that these are MADE as
> > light flywheels using specific high quality aluminium and steel
> > components and are not LIGHTENED STANDARD flywheels,
> > If you lightened a standard XPAG flywheel to this extent it would
> > almost certainly disintegrate at the revs the T racers use.
> >
> > Clive<
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