Member Page: Eric S

Eric S

Member ID: ProjectMGB

Member Status: Free Member
Dayton, Ohio, USA

Member Since: 2006-02-02
Home Site: The MG Experience

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Last Login: 2012-02-10 03:19:37
Forum Activity: 2012-02-10 03:19:37
Forum Posts: 86

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1967 MG MGB
GHN3L128426

1 Vehicles -- Total mileage: 0 mi (0 km) -- Average age: 1967

Member Journal – Project Mgb

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Valve Cover

Posted on: Monday April 3, 2006

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I just finished up my valve cover, timing cover, and engine side plates. I bead blasted them, powder-coated their insides with a satin black (silicone based), powder-coated their outsides with chrome, and then top-coated them with two coats of transparent red powder coat. The picture doesn't do them justice. The result is a deep candy red with a great sparkle from the metallic layer underneath. It took a lot of degreasing to get all of the oil out of the vented engine side plate (I couldn't ...

Carburetors Better Than New!

Posted on: Saturday March 18, 2006

I now have the carburetors completed and mounted on the intake manifold. With stainless steel hardware (from cotter pins to lock washers) and electroless nickel plated bodies and linkage, they look so much better than they did. I also sanded and then polished the suction chambers (dashpots) to a farily bright, chrome-like finish. I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do with the PCV valve atop the intake manifold. Though my car is a '67, the carburetors are from a '70 MGB. With these ...

Carburetor Rebuild Nearly Complete

Posted on: Saturday March 11, 2006

Technically, I already finished rebuilding the carburetors but I decided not to post pictures on my restoration web page until I assemble them to the intake manifold and heat shield. This way I can post more meaningful before and after pictures (since my 'before' pictures were taken of the carburetors mounted on the intake). I was able to bead blast and powder coat (with high-temp, silicone-based powder) the intake manifold and heat shield but had...