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I've got the Derrington head here. Identical to the MM Qualcast one but the chamber shape is different and smaller.[frame][/frame]

Keith. Do you have any other 'period' adverts or info from which to steal ideas?

Yes. They work fine on low revving engines and a wide fanbelt. There were quite a few at Beaulieu that had been re-sealed and re-bearinged but I forgot to tick them off my list as I went along. Is there any chance of you laying it flat on the bench, pouring some water down the ports and seeing if it...

None of the options I have tried so far have had any clearance problems. The Midget intake manifold has enough meat on it that I won't need big washers to spread the load. Moving the bolt spacing inwards gives me quite a lot of overhang past the studs, ensuring that the whole thing is quite tight an...

Progress! I took on the idea from Mike about Midget/Sprite carbs and manifolds. Lacking a frogeye manifold, I cut a Midget one in half and spaced the sides out and drilled the mounting flanges for the crankcase studs. The ports were much too large but I lathed down a sleeve to fit inside the port an...

Alan. I don't suppose you have a .dwg file for those end pieces to get them laser cut? It would be handy not to have to draw them up on the CAD program again since it took me a whole day to do the weber mounting plate. Your bodyshell looks like a later A-series one or did they change MM shells to fi...

The percentage loss from not having the pairs sychronised is small and on a car with 27bhp there is no way on earth that you'd ever notice it. Effectively it is a 4-2-1 but the 4, the 2 and the one all meet at the exact same place (if you see what I mean). Youd have to go an awful long way to make a...

[frame] http://mmoc.org.uk/mbimage.php?src=1266601490_4752 [/frame][frame] http://mmoc.org.uk/mbimage.php?src=1266601505_4752 [/frame] The Derrington-esque SU carb conversion that I made up 10 years ago for a Morris * engined MG seems to still fit without fouling the float bowls on the exhaust or fo...

[frame] http://mmoc.org.uk/mbimage.php?src=1266522991_4752 [/frame][frame] http://mmoc.org.uk/mbimage.php?src=1266523017_4752 [/frame][frame] http://mmoc.org.uk/mbimage.php?src=1266523034_4752 [/frame] I'm still not able to get the inlet done because I've not been able to make a suitable file on my ...

Keith. The race is on, mate! I finally got to cutting the 1" ID sections out of the motorbike 4-into-1 system (they make it from a 1" pipe sleeved inside a 1.25" pipe, y'know) and have gutted the engine bay of the lowlight to fit everything in place. Tomorrow I might have much of it i...

The Midget 1275 engine block has a slightly larger spigot (like a dowel) between the top 2 bolts on the gearbox/backplate area. You can either lathe down the Midget spigot or drill oversize the hole in the top of the Morris bellhousing. Same size on the 1275 Marina/Ital engines and I've a feeling th...

BMC (the company) built some fancy 5-speed boxes for the later racing Midgets using the 4-speed MGB box as a starting point. Must therefore be possible to get the MGB box hanging on.

Speaking from experience (Traveller Vs 7 tonne truck), I've got to say that Newton Commercial seats and Inertia reel belts are what saved me. The impact was hard enough to strip the tyres off the wheels and to bend the top arm of the front suspension through 90 degrees without any distortion to the ...

You did fit the little sleeve that goes onto the stub and fills the gap between the stub and the inner dimension of the bearing? Might've been stuck on the old leg?

Start with a post-63-ish Midget 1098? Stronger crank and you can rev the guts out of it without it going pop. Same pistons etc but better crank.

40 DCOE!!!!

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How about one of these?

MM cam? Hmmmm. Where are you having it done, Mike?

Part of the problem is the temperature of the water (up to maybe 120 dgrees C) in the sort of engines that the EWP is designed for. Possibly an auto gearbox coolant pump might work. The Smiths pump is still one step up from no pump at all (USHM2 engines) Has anyone got a smiths pump spare? I have al...

What about a Smiths pump or an EWP kit?

On the subject of making jigs etc, here is the frame I made to get a bare bodyshell off to the chemical dip. It slides together and then the forwards mount for the rear springs goes through the tubes at one end and the other end fits between the chassis rails and the screw threads are slotted so tha...