- 41. Winter Test II (score: 1)
- Author: Simon Bosworth <simon@hpi50.dsddhc.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 09:29:04 -0600
- Well I finally got to try the BGT in the snow. There was a couple of inches on the ground last night. The car seemd to handle it at least as well as my FWD car. On the side strrets near my house I wa
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg00952.html (7,205 bytes)
- 42. Re: 74 MGB GT (score: 1)
- Author: Simon Bosworth <simon@hpi50.dsddhc.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 09:13:29 -0600
- Rick, I have been using my 74 GT as a daily driver since May. Once I fixed some carb related problems it has been running quite nicely. I have had no problem starting it, (12 degrees this morning). A
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01520.html (7,672 bytes)
- 43. Hearing loss prevented (score: 1)
- Author: Simon Bosworth <simon@hpi50.dsddhc.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 10:15:31 -0600
- Hello all, this weekend I finally had to do something about the muffler on my 74 BGT. Every time I hit about 2500 RPM a God-awful resonance would start up that almost deafened me. On Saturday I decid
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01526.html (7,368 bytes)
- 44. MG Electronic gadgets (score: 1)
- Author: Simon Bosworth <simon@hpi50.dsddhc.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 10:35:57 -0600
- Since we seem to have a MG & electronics thread going... here is a description of a gadget I have built for my car, it is an odometer/trip meter. It uses a 16 char LCD display and provides an odomete
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg01533.html (7,079 bytes)
- 45. Add some Zip to your life...advance your ignition (score: 1)
- Author: Simon Bosworth <simon@hpi50.dsddhc.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 08:50:25 -0500
- Last night I decided to bump up the advance on my 74 BGT. A relative, who has been working with LBCs since Adam was a boy, mentioned that retarted ignition tended to cause the engine to run hotter. M
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg01181.html (6,973 bytes)
- 46. MG World (score: 1)
- Author: Simon Bosworth <simon@hpi50.dsddhc.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 08:53:38 -0500
- I got my MG World mag. yesterday, (thanks Phil). Nice magazine with lots of real content. Of course not forgetting the thrilling 'Running Reports' ;) Nice to see the running report pictures in colour
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg01182.html (7,376 bytes)
- 47. Re: SU questions (score: 1)
- Author: Simon Bosworth <simon@hpi50.dsddhc.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 10:34:58 -0500
- Robert, it sounds as though one of your float needles has stuck and a carb float bowl is overflowing. I have become something of an expert on this as my fuel gauge doesn't work and I keep running out
- /html/mgs/1997-07/msg00406.html (9,343 bytes)
- 48. Productive weekend (score: 1)
- Author: Simon Bosworth <simon@hpi50.dsddhc.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 09:05:45 -0500
- I managed to get a couple of upgrade jobs on the 74 GT done this weekend. First I fitted a new fuel tank to replace the old (rusty) one. I added a fitting to take returned fuel from a pressure regula
- /html/mgs/1997-07/msg00854.html (7,489 bytes)
- 49. Alternate alternator (score: 1)
- Author: Simon Bosworth <simon@hpi50.dsddhc.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 14:22:38 -0500
- Hello all, I would like to fit a higher amperage alternator to my '74 GT. I am planning on fitting fuel injection sometime in the future and will need some extra amps. Does anyone know of a suitable
- /html/mgs/1997-06/msg00325.html (6,485 bytes)
- 50. Re: Automobile future, was FW: 2022 (score: 1)
- Author: Simon Bosworth <simon@hpi50.dsddhc.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:02:02 -0500
- prehaps electric vehicles may be an area for future 'hot-rodding'. Presumably they would not be covered by restricitive anti-pollution legislation and could thus be modified. Maybe we will all be tea
- /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01617.html (10,037 bytes)
- 51. Re: WOOF! (score: 1)
- Author: Simon Bosworth <simon@hpi50.dsddhc.com>
- Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 12:58:35 -0500
- Wasn't there a Rover gas turbine powered car ? Simon -- Simon Bosworth simon@hpi50.dsddhc.com
- /html/mgs/1997-05/msg00020.html (7,629 bytes)
- 52. Re: MG inlination...Another Bolshevik MG (score: 1)
- Author: Simon Bosworth <simon@hpi50.dsddhc.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 16:26:46 -0500
- My 74 B GT also appears to lean to the left. Must be those BL shop stewards :-) Simon -- Simon Bosworth simon@hpi50.dsddhc.com
- /html/mgs/1997-04/msg01303.html (6,788 bytes)
- 53. On the road again... (score: 1)
- Author: Simon Bosworth <simon@hpi50.dsddhc.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 13:11:32 -0500
- Well at last I have my 74 BGT on the road, (after paying obscene amounts of money to the local British car shop). Unfortunately I didn't have the time, (or the expertise), to fix the clutch problems.
- /html/mgs/1997-04/msg01540.html (6,872 bytes)
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