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G'day Paul Sounds like you have a Mini Metro Turbo head gasket. It's hard and black, and in my opinion the very best you can get. Apart from being a denser material, it also has re-inforcing fillets between the cylinders. My race engine runs 13:1 compression, and I have NEVER blown a head gasket. All the guys racing Sprites and Midgets Down Under use this gasket. One guy I know has re-used his 3 times now (he's cheap) and even he doesn't blow them! The Payen part number is TAM1521, at least that's what it is on the packet... MORE
Don't know where those power outputs came from but they are severely wrong! Lowest power output for the Rover 3.5 litre V8 was 91 BHP in landrover Stage one form. P6/P5 form it was 184 BHP, (5 * 105 octane fuel) Late P6 and early SD1 it was 160 SD1 Vitesse and VDP EFi were 190 SD1 twin Plenum form 220 Range Rover/ MGB GT V8 130. Prior to rovers development it only revved to 4500 after it was safe to 5500 The Twin Plenum SD1 Vitesse was also the car that wiped BMW out on the race tracks... MORE
Cap'n Bob- What leads me to believe I have an issue as to fuel flow is that my car is acting very simmilar to the motorcycles I race when I have had fuel flow issues (pinched fuel line, clogged filter, even started a race once time with the fuel petcock 1/2 way on). It's like it runs peachy in lower RPM's and if I gas it, it runs fine in the upper range too, for about 5-10 seconds, until the float bowls are depleated. At this point, it runs like crap even at low RPM's until float bowls fill... MORE
David By safety I was more refering to driver saftey than car strength, in that a hard top offers more protection from low flying tarmac than a soft top, it always shockes me how many (even top level competitors) press against the roof when they roll a car, this being a thin piece of tin or even canvas between you and 100mph tarmac. There are also several rules about drivers arms/heads not being able to get out of a cockpit in the event of an accident Regards Chris Valentine Dunlop Motorsport maybe in general, but in the specific arena... MORE
maybe in general, but in the specific arena of MG club racing, there would be no safety derived advantage in using a hardtop (especially a 'race weight' one) as it doesn't provide any structural strength, unlike a saloon or factory built steel hardtop/coupe; and with short races with no driver changes, this rule would not be a factor either, so Nigel's theory of superior aerodynamics would appear to be the logical one. Regards David "David Jacobs" 30125... MORE
Racing has more to do with class and safety, open top would be different to hardtop/saloon in many cases eg. trackdays open tops have to use helmets when saloons sometimes dont or Lemans where open tops get different rules because of the ease of changing driver compared to a roof with doors. Regards Chris Valentine Dunlop Motorsport I am sold on fitting one in winter now, also the aerodynamics must be better, why else the the racing boys fit them for racing? Any thoughts ? Alan christopher_valentine@... 30102... MORE
Having just driven 70 odd miles on M6 at aprox 90mph most of the way with the soft top up, heater on. The wind noise was most unpleasant, and would be very taxing on a long journey. Besides that, at that speed I was getting an ear-ache from my wife telling me to slow down every 3 minutes. We bought a secondhand hardtop (for just under the same price that I paid for a complete midget) Fitted it and made the return 70 mile jouney at the same speed. Wind noise disappeared. Earache disappeared cos my wife associates noise... MORE
Downloaded in PHOTOS section 2004 resto ALBUM The black & white Midget& Sprite club stand 150 bhp from an 1100cc engine, 0-60mph in 4 secs. Bree or Chris in an MG 2 race cars one rally RB car Innocenti midget "apjones72mg" 30024... MORE
Actually, being accused of responsibility for one of the greatest makes of car with a particularly stunning race pedigree could well be taken as a compliment! Guy "Guy Weller" 29960... MORE
NASCAR 200 MPH Racer's Tape??????????????? "justbrits" 29986... MORE
On at Stoneleigh this weekend - I drove past the sign this morning http://www.heritage-motorsport.co.uk/ See the MG midget rally cars in action, if not, watch the rest of the class ic rally cars on the special stage in the Royal Agricultural Showground. Al so classic circuit race cars - all categories. Cars and bits for sale etc e tc Photos of last weekends MG Resto show at Stoneleigh will be downloaded this weekend. Including the Black and White Midget and Sprite Clubs stand. (If you were there you'll know what I mean.) Also a very clever , very fast,... MORE
Jens, look in the photos section . In the RESTO SHOW album. Two Frogeyes , the blue one with the supercharger is not actually Iris blue, but everyone thinks that it is **. I think its as good as if not better. ** All Is this how the confusion over BRG came about, people using a generic name to describe what they got, I don't know what Leaf green or Aintree green is but if you said British Racing green I'd have a good idea of what you meant.? Alan "Alan" 29793... MORE
Jeremy Quite correct; and you're about the only person to actually 'see' the point I'm trying to make, which is whatever colours were applied in Australia bear no relevance whatsoever to colours applied elsewhere in the world, because those colours were only used in the 'Australian' market. You could pretty much claim that Frogeyes were painted green with yellow spots in Australia - no-one else in the world would really care. But to claim that BRG is an 'official' Frogeye paint scheme is wrong for three reasons, firstly because if it was used in Australia how is that relevant... MORE
G'day guys I really don't want to continue this line of discussion, and this will be my last email on the subject. However, as I stated in my last email: There has been too much incorrect info published and accepted as "gospel" without checking what might have been done with regard the many thousand cars built here. Terry Horler's book is truly an excellent publication, but there are some areas in which it is simply incorrect. And Australian paint colours is one of those areas. As Registrar of the Sprite Car Club of Australia, I am keeper of the... MORE
Oh my god I've been sucked in! I think the difference of opinion is a semantic one about what consitutes an OE colour. Nigel feels it's only the colours that were applied in England, Colin feels that if they were applied by Austin Austrialia (or whatever the subsidiary were called) then it's OE. I think you could probably construct a pretty good argument for both cases. be my last "gospel" some one of records of ID some register racing (1), what was cars "Jeremy Cogman" 29776... MORE
Colin Well I think you just proved the point - that the Australians pretty much painted the cars whatever colour they fancied painting them. Who's ever heard of Carnation Red, Bill Blue or Bard Grey? Are you serious? Quite how you can sit there with a straight face and claim that British Racing Green was an 'official' colour for Bug/Frogeye's is well beyond me. I'll repeat it again for you - British Racing Green never has, never was nor ever will be a Bug/Frogeye OE colour. Whatever Australians fancied painting their cars is and was entirely up to them... MORE
And I think it was yellow for Belgium. Yup - they really did have a racing team. avagoodday Colin "Colin@SpriteParts" 29732... MORE
G'day Nigel "I wasn't counting the cars shipped out as 'kits'." Then say so, Nigel. What you said was "Bugeye's never came with British Racing Green as a colour option." That statement is incorrect. "Whatever the Australians fancied painting there (sic) Frog/Bugeyes in is largely irrelevant." Not irrelevant to us. Nor is it irrelevant to people interested in originality and authenticity. There has been too much incorrect info published and accepted as "gospel" without checking what might have been done with regard the many thousand cars built here. Please don't add to the wealth of misinformation by sweeping (incorrect)... MORE
Colin No that statement "Bugeye's never came with British Racing Green as a colour option." is not 'incorrect'. As far as I am concerned Bug/Frogeyes made in England at the factory either for export or home market use did not come with British Racing Green as an OE factory painted colour option. Neither did the Bug/Frogeye's that were sent to Australia leave this country painted as British Racing Green. If you look at the factory colour schemes for Bug/Frogeye's you will not see British Racing Green as a colour option. Now, whatever the Australians did to the cars when... MORE
Yep a great piece of road and well worth a visit if you've never been there, it also makes up part of the route for LeJog the Lands End to John O'Groats classic road rally. I would not recomend passing by at about 10pm in December it was dark and cold (to state the obvious) although it was Grockle Free! It may have just been the ice and the dark but I'm sure it is narrower than 3.5meters as we managed to get on the grass on both sides of the road several times, and despite some serious effort... MORE
To Pootle ... is in my terms , a slowish kinda drive. Not racing anywhere, just driving along admiring the scenery. :-) Same meaning in our household - my wife says so. But also includes stops fo r photography. As opposed to plod, as in plodding along, when you just go slowly, surely, safely, same slow pace, nothing exciting ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Z Alan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -... MORE
G'day all And sorry Nigel - BRG was a standard colour for Bugeyes in Australia. The cars assembled here came in as CKD (Completely Knocked Down) and painted in grey primer. They were painted here in four standard colours, after four European national racing colours: Rhiems Blue (France) Monza Red (Italy) Nurburg White (Germany), and British Racing Green (duh). The Australian ID plates on the firewall were stamped with the car model, body number, engine number and colour. We have quite a few on the Register that were (and many still are) British Racing Green. Sometimes shortened on the... MORE
A racing friend, sadly no longer with us, said that green was adopted as the racing colour for Great Britain. But green was said to be an unlucky colour, as it angered the Gods, (or the Demons!) so the paint manufacturers made their greens so dark they were almost black, so as to fool them into thinking it was black. The British got their green cars, and the Gods were no longer angered!! So, basically, any shade of green is considered to be BRG. Personally, I prefer the darkets of all of them: Jaguar British Racing Green. Margaret South... MORE
I thought only alchoholic rastafarians drank Bluebird LOL! Nah! They drink Red Stripe (that's bl**dy awful too!!) and Miller lite is pretty awful from what I remember. All self respecing MG peeps drink Old Speckled hen http://www.oldspeckledhen.co.uk/oshlinks.htm Sponsors of several UK MG events and guess where it's brewed. A great tasting pint and quite a high alcohol %. That is for us Men of the Midlands, the fairies down south prefer cold fizzy lager and the Northerners like warm , strong beer with a good head. Alan PS French National racing colour was Blue - but Buggatis , were... MORE
Bugattis were built in France, so yes, blue is the logical colour for their racers. Regards David "David Jacobs" 29670... MORE
