Thread: 51 MG restoration.

My last fire ring was a washer drum. They work great. And with some large rocks around it makes it look nice but still breath well. That was in northern CA.

Still waiting on my mg rim return but the VW is booked in for a new turbo in two days!
Make an appt for next week to get the stg 1 tune installed and she’ll be revved up for winter.
I don’t have the time or desire to learn coding to figure out if my old 2002 1.8 tune would work on the new 1.8 platform.
Won’t have quite the thrill of my ole Corrado, yet, and maybe never, but she will get about 100 extra ponies to the road out of this upgrade. Anything else will require a bunch of hardware. Hence the maybe never caveat.

I always wonder about you VW and MG guys........
I always say Farfetnuggen and Tally-HO!!!!

I think if you look at this pic, you might see room to overlap a chamber for volume and do it up in fiberglass, an awesome airbox/filter is coming. The restrictions in the Velocity things may be killing you.
Also, driving in the rain is not advised!

Hmm, you think my screens are restricting airflow in the velocity stacks? Never considered I was as she doesn’t seem to run rich, but an easy test to remove them outright and see the results.
Now that I know I can clear the smaller stack, I have an actual dimension to work from. Maybe there are Harley or similar low profile filters I can find for the Mikuni’s.
Would like to go to a k and n style washable filter but the size I had to work with was kinda custom.
To the google!
Buddy with my wheels is now saying maybe by end of the week. Pissing me off a bit as the original scope was one week, and we are pushing 2 now.

Rims are done! And they look gorgeous.


Significant improvement in ride for sure! No more dash shimmy at 4k rpm. Course it was dark when I finally got her back together so tomorrow pop off the screens on the trumpets and do a little sustained high Rev testing.

The silver also looks nice, Mike.

Definitely smoother ride at the higher rpm’s now, and here’s how she looks in the daylight

She’s in ‘it’s chilly’ mode and has her cowl back in place. With the heater just circulating rad fluid, fan not even on its warm in the car now. Strange sensation after my first few years, but the new insulation, canvas, and tightening up of all the gaps has created a warm environment. Cept I still prefer the top down, hehe.
Ah well. It’ll be way better as the days get chilly and I still want to drive.

Looks great, Mike. Congrats on having such a fine ride.

My pops would be proud of ya, Mike. He restored many o cars in his life, was his hobby and passion. MGs and Jags were some of the last of his work.

All were from the ground, up. Body, drivetrains, paint, upholstery, mechanical, electrical, except when I had to tell him, all is positive, ground, in the MG wiring.

Thanks gents.
, I’d lose points with purists, but think there are enough resto mod types around these days that would do what I did.
Tried to keep the spirit, and essence of the original car from the factory, but eliminate all the weaknesses that existed in the 50s.
I maintain that the things I changed, the mfgr would have as well, were the options available.

She really is a hoot to drive now.