Albert:
My Black Beauty non-OD 73 B roadster will easily surpass 100 MPH and still
be pulling strong and feeling real good. I'm sure it would keep going a ways
more but it IS humming along pretty good in the RPM's department at those
speeds and I have WAY too much money, effort and pride invested to chance
blowing it. Also need more radiator to do that for long. Also Scared of
Smokey!
Accelerates really great too! Can chirp the 60 series tires in second gear!!
Wanna drag?!!
It has a fresh de-smogged twin SU carbed engine, with a good valve job,
milled head, flat top pistons, bored .060 over, a Petronix electronic
ignition, a fresh vacuum advance unit with the timing advanced just about as
far as it will go without pinging on 93 octane fuel (I can back the timing
up a little, run 87 and still have decent performance if I want. Really
basically stock - to the max.
LOVE IT!!
-Jerry Erbesfield
73 B Black Beauty roadster
jerbesfield@mindspring.com
website- http://jerbesfield.home.mindspring.com
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Aeseeyou@aol.com
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 12:18 PM
To: mgs@autox.team.net
Cc: paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk
Subject: Confused by speeds stated
In a message dated 5/10/02 3:11:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk writes:
>>> My roadster is smooth at an indicated 100 and everything up to it. The
V8
> >>ditto at an indicated 120
Dear fellow MGB owner,
Am I missing something here? You do mean KPH's don't you? You surely can not
mean 100 MPH...Or, are you trying to tell me that your "B" can actually go
100 mph? I don't think my stock "B" (56,000 mi.) will go 80 mph even going
downhill with a tail wind pushing me along, ha, ha, ha!
-=Safety-Fast=-
Albert Escalante
1978 MGB, 1977 Jaguar XJ6L
Central Coast British Car Club
Port Hueneme, California (USA)
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