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MG MGB GT V8 Factory Originals Technical - THANKS!

I would like to THANK everyone that emailed, and told me where to get started on the conversion. I'm 99% ready to go for a BOP 215, but the Ford in my blood won't let me forget the possiblities with a 302. Being my first time i'll probably start looking for a donor 77-80 car & 215. Again if anyone has any leads to the donor car it would be GREAT! I'm in KY, and the "pickin's" are slim :(

Hopefully find a car within 6 months, and be on the road within 9 months. Is that outta the question?

THANKS again!!!

Dan
DV Vaughn

DV,
To do the conversion and get it on the road within 3 months of buying the car? I think it's possible with a later model like that as long as you plan to devote nearly all your time, almost every day, to the project.

Best,
Joe
Joe Ullman

OPPS! I meant within 9 months after the the purchase, for a total of 15 months from now ;-)
DV Vaughn

The Towery ad on the back of the British V8 Newsletter says they can send a crew to your place if you’re within range and convert a ’77 – ’80 MGB to V8 power in one day. So it can be done as long as you have every part you will need. Waiting for one part can take a while just to find you need another part later. Then you have to be able to tell when the car is done. I can drive mine, but it’s not done. It will never be “done”.
George

George, Do you have a email addy, or phone # for Towery? I need to ask a question, or two.

Dan
DV Vaughn

Is Towery's claim really true? Have they really done such things? I just find that incredibly hard to believe, or else I am just incredibly incompetent, which is possible too. My '79, which is a plain-vanilla conversion, took months to get even _basically_ right.
Barry Fields

Barry,

Where do you live in Syracuse? I'm in Baldwinsville.

Steve
Steve LaGoy

It comes down to experience. Towery has been doing conversions for YEARS. He has done lots of them and it is his proffession, so I do not doubt it could be done if everything is ready in terms of parts, and you have 2 or more experienced people doing the work..

I know I have LOTS of hours into my car, but at the same time when I look at the actual hands on cut, fabricating, bolting up it is not so bad, it is the learning and figuring things out that sucks up the time, and of course waiting for parts to arrive..
Larry Embrey

DV, here’s what I have found on Towery so far…

Towery Foreign Cars (302) 734-1243
Glenn Towery, Proprietor
P.O. Box 354 Cheswold, DE 19936

I haven’t been able to scrounge up his e-mail address, but I remember it was with AOL and there was only one “n” in his e-mail name unlike the two in his actual first name.

His ad says if you live on the East coast and have a ’77 – ’80 MGB his team will bring the motor, transmission and drive train to your garage and complete the transformation in one day. It also says to phone for details. The price is one of those “details”.

I can see that this could be done in a day because the only things that have to be modified on a ’77 – ’80 MGB is to raise the transmission tunnel a bit and remove the brace across the hood (bonnet). Everything else is a part swap such as, radiator and hoses, tachometer, speedometer and cable.
George Champion

Actually, the last time I saw it on this board, it was:
mgv8glen@bellatlantic.net
jimt

<<and remove the brace across the hood (bonnet)>>

George,

Not always. Mine cleared. :)
Carl

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