There was a stock MGB V8 in the local MG club some years ago. I don't
know if it was originally imported to the US or brought in later.
There is also a local guy (Vancouver, WA) who does a very nice job of
putting a V8 in your MGB for you. There were also two of these cars
for sale at the local British field meet.
I forget the guy's name of course. It's Les ????. If people are really
interested in having one done by him I can call another old MG NW member
(the club is now defunct) and ask him how to get in touch with Les.
--- Forwarded mail from wbrown@csg.lbl.gov (Bill Brown)
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 93 07:30:59 PDT
From: wbrown@csg.lbl.gov (Bill Brown)
Subject: "Buick" V8
John_Forrester.wbst147@xerox.com writes:
> The tools were then sold to Rover (the Buick version) and they subsequently
> came out with the Rover 3500. To my knowledge they have since put it into the
> up market Land Rover, the TR-8 and Morgan used it in the +8. I am not aware of
> any other applications.
According to a book I have on the histor of the MG/MGB series, this engine
was also used in the MGB-V8 (or whatever it was called.) A few were built
and sold in GB, none were imported to teh USA.
Sounds like an interesting project. Probably a dumb question, but does
anyone make a "conversion kit" for installing (non stock) engineds in MGBs?
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