British Leyland

[awa355]

I gotta ask why you think landrovers are hard to work on. IMHO they are easy to work on, not that I have any experience with them......much.....

They may well be easy to work on around the engine. I remember a mechanic saying years ago that it was 6 hours to remove a gearbox from a landrover and about an hour to get the gearbox out of a Landcruiser. I may have that wrong. Others here would know.

[Motu]

A bit padded on both those times, gotta make it look good. A Landrover gearbox comes out the top - so the floor comes up first, lots of 1/4'' bolts rusted up and all the drama that entails....so if they come off easy you are looking like the best mechanic there ever was....if they are tough it's going to take a long time to do that simple job. In the days before floor cranes it was off with the roof and a chain block. With a floor crane you take a door off (easy, they are made to lift off) and bring it out the side. Landrovers and early Cruisers had a cardon shaft handbrake, more extra work, modern 4X4's don't have such silly things.

A Landrover on the floor with a crane, or a Landcruiser on a hoist with a trans jack - a young guy who has never worked on a Landrover would come up with those figures easy.

[Flip]

I suppose if you had to pay some one to unscrew the floor and seat to get access to the gear box it might be considered a pain. To me the access granted by being able lift out the floor is a brillant design feature. But I don't have to pay for my time.

Every thing on my landy gets put back together with coper coat. It means I can get it apart even if it is under the vehicle on the exhaust system.

I have just put a 2 1/2" exhaust system with a 3 chamber and a cody and it sounds very sexy at the moment.

[awa355]

For anyone who wants to read up on the Austin Gypsy, This is easy reading

http://www.austinmemories.com/page65/page65.html

[husaberg]

For anyone who wants to read up on the Austin Gypsy, This is easy reading

http://www.austinmemories.com/page65/page65.html

For those that don't know the same RR series motor that was in the gypsy and champ the basis for the vanwall F1 engine it was basically 4 Manx Norton heads on the rr designed bottom end much modded as cast in alloy......
http://jbbassibey.free.fr/vanwall%20...gne%201955.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanwall

[Flip]

When I moved north recently, Spanx and I drove two of my cars up. We had a great trip, had a pile of fun. We spent all day talking on the Ham radio as we drove. We stayed in Chch and Wtn and we met Princessbandit on the ferry which was cool. Spanx put this wee video together.

The cars are very similar expect the Lotus has 3x the power to weight and is 50 years newer, see how fast he gets past the trucks at 1,20. Young men like the lotus young women like the MG (I drove the MG). We did as much of the trip topless if we could get away with. The only rain we got was leaving Wellington. The old MG performed brillantly.

Just north of napier Spanx was passed at one stage by a hilux on a long straight. It followed right up my ass in the Midget until we got to the devils elbow corners, then he threw himself off the road for some reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX9JOzBb00o

Oh the MG has a scatter cam, big valves, has been ported, high comp pistons and has a LCB exhaust. It also has modern tyres on minilites, panhar, 5/8 sway bar, spax shocks front n back and urethanes. It goes ok for a 50 year old "stock" english shitter. Was/am thinking about a 8 port head but it is a big change and won't look stock.

[Berries]

Actually this is the one you need...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used...-794407102.htm

Oh no. The wife saw that a week ago and has not shut up about it, or stopped laughing about it. Will someone please buy the fucking thing so I don't have to go and kick some tyres while in Chch this weekend, spend the next six months cutting out rust and the next six years gathering rust at 75km/h.

Please?

[dangerous]

When I moved north recently, Spanx and I drove two of my cars up. We had a great trip, had a pile of fun. We spent all day talking on the Ham radio as we drove.

looks like a good rate of knots, round the 25k corner... pitty you buggers cut some corners, woulda thought cars like that could stay between the center and fog lines easier, whats the road with the overhead viduct? looks mint

ps: woulda been nice to have herd the music of the MG humming

[Flip]

The Lotus has the intake behind the drivers head and plastic cars with a full chassy rattle badly.

Its the Mohaka viaduct on the Napier Gisborne road.

[dangerous]

The Lotus has the intake behind the drivers head and plastic cars with a full chassy rattle badly.

Its the Mohaka viaduct on the Napier Gisborne road.

dont cear bout the Lotus sound, the MG singing is what Id like to here LOL

[Flip]

Well it sounds like a BMC cooper A series with a tuned length exhaust with a single 1 1/2" cody.

[dangerous]

Well it sounds like a BMC cooper A series with a tuned length exhaust with a single 1 1/2" cody.

no no flippers... as below, ohh and thats 'coby' not a bourbon aye?

Oh the MG has a scatter cam, big valves, has been ported, high comp pistons and has a LCB exhaust.

so what is a scatter cam?

[ducatilover]

no no flippers... as below, ohh and thats 'coby' not a bourbon aye?



so what is a scatter cam?

Different lobe centers on the middle 2 cylinders, can make a bit of extra hp over a decent flavour cam right up top. Dunno if I'd use one in a road car, but would like to hear Flip's thoughts


Napier-Gisborne is a magic bit of road, Gizzy up through the gorge is fairly epic too.

[dangerous]

Different lobe centers on the middle 2 cylinders.

HUH... ya what, how and why would you tune tw0 pots diferent to the other two? I mean like they would be fighting the other 2 surley all 4 pots need to be tuned the same???

[Flip]

On an A series midget motor 1 and 4 cylinders have better cooling so you can drive these cylinders harder. A scatter cam drives 1&4 harder than 2&3. It was expensive and it really makes sfa extra power, but when you only have 70 hp std every one helps.

Mine goes fine but is a bit "cammy" for road use, her indoors doesent like driving it, also because the thing also has a HD clutch and is very easy to stall.

Actually the new high lift rockers made more diference than the new cam.