It's been a while but I have sold my F, after long service and many happy Km, 200000KM in fact and 13 years. Replacement is a TF 160 an 80th Anniversary with just 64000KM a mere child!. I have started to play around fitting Kuhmo track day tyres, Bilstein shocks thicker sway bars, larger rear brakes...
Happy and safe MGF motoring to everyone for the coming year. Brought in the New Year with a group of Dutch/New Zealanders takes drinking to a new level!
I bought them from Brown & Gammons some six years ago. "Probush" at the same time I fitted there adjustable shocks, compliance washers and lowering knuckles. Two months later I had to have new rear turrets installed as the stiffer shocks ripped one away from the inner rear panel and th...
In October 2008 I had the drivers ( R/H ) side front wishbone snap and discovered the other side was cracked. Both replaced with second hand ones which due to our climate corrosion is not a problem. Today having a pre race inspection, we are having a super sprint and hill climb weekend, it was found...
I am green with envy, at the moment there is know one willing to be the importer and distributor to Australia. When I was over in the UK in March, I had hoped to drive one but they had not arrived at the dealer by the time I left. So it will be another year before I can sample one. By all reports th...
Went there in March this year. A great spot to go to, the presentation of the aircraft is superb. We were lucky that they were testing a Spitfire and a couple of Hurricane aircraft, our own private air display.
Well I have just collected my car from the workshop. With the damage done due to failed rings I now have a secondhand set of sleeves which were honned. New big end bearings, rings were fitted and the head had to have a new exhaust valve, new stem seals, collets and caps along with new springs so eve...
Well went to inspect the F today. The head neaded on number on cylinder a new valve spring but on some of the others the collets were very worn and ready to seperate from the valves. As I said the compression was about equal, BUT down on previous tests. Also the cylinders were showing signs of sligh...
When we had a look at it due a slight miss the first thing they did was a compresion test and nothing toward showed, ie all cylinders were at acceptable levels , so they started looking at plugs and leads. When every thing was all replaced they took it for a short drive and all was well, they though...
Well it's almost a year sinceI last wrote about my F. A couple of weeks ago we had our anual super sprint and after last years over reving I was being careful!!!. A few days after this event I noticed and intermitant miss, but as I had been so careful, I felt it was more fuel related. Last weekend I...
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.
Whilst you are freezing your nuts off we are having a humid 28C, so fresh shell fish, steaks on the BBQ and fruit salad for desert all washed down with chilled Savingion Blanc and ice cold beers...............