Mgb Sebring V8 project build

Mgb Sebring V8 project build

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M3ck

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129 months

Sunday 7th March 2021
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M3ck

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129 months

Sunday 7th March 2021
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M3ck

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RC1807

12,482 posts

167 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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Looks good, OP.

Will you be adding some narrative? wink

StuntmanMike

11,671 posts

150 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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RC1807 said:
Looks good, OP.

Will you be adding some narrative? wink
That’s three of six posts in ninety three months....

OP is positively gushing. rofl

Nice car op, love the garage as well.

MC Bodge

21,552 posts

174 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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Nice car and very nice workshop

Boringcarowner

89 posts

174 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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Lovely work, look forward to further updates.

Dr G

15,159 posts

241 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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I'd love to see/read more; a Sebring bodied B is a lovely looking thing. Proportions are damn near perfect to my eye.

M3ck

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M3ck

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irocfan

40,153 posts

189 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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That is lovely

M3ck

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Monday 8th March 2021
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Hello all,

In the spirit of a picture telling a thousand words I'd making up for lost time and next to no postings....

This 'project'- although back in 2013 when I bought the car I didn't know it would be become that then, only a curious exploration with a screwdriver at some bubbling paintwork would reveal the extent of the works required and I made the decision to start... 8 years later, 2 babies, a house move àcross the channel to northern France and a à new job keeping me in England most of the week leaving just the weekends to tinker means it's still ongoing, although I think it should be finished before my first born can drive! If we are not all forced to be electric by then of course.

So back when it felt I had all the time in the world the car, originally a rumber bumpered 1968 example was gutted, stripped of paint and the cutting out of rot began.... And continued.... and at this point I spent more than I care to remember with the good people at Moss motors buying panel after panel to replace a fair proportion of the underside....

It was at this point I had the thought to replicate as best I could the Sebring look, having read some horror stories from folk buying and attempting to fit the grp Sebring arches I discovered a workshop in the heart of Northampton that created the front arches out of steel with a English wheel, once welded, filled and faired I'm happy with the results, however the rear valance and arches remain Grp

A few long months later the car was ready for paint, my good friend Billy who at the time before retiring from a lifetime of painting and panel beating worked at Andy King MG garage in Nottinghamshire provided all the encouragement, training and direction throughout and expertly painted the car.

Then it was a case of putting it back together, for the most part I reconditioned what I had, the car already had limited slip diff and a solid V8 block, which was handed over to John Eales V8 for the treatment, the breif being a drivable, durable V8 with legs.... 290 BHP odd of them and 309 pounds of torque.

When putting everything together I purchases big AP racing calipers, new suspension all round, utilising the Costello front suspension system from Front line Racing who make the very expensive Maxda engined MGB LE50

And then I moved house and country..... The car sat, at the time I didn't have a workshop so works paused, eventually I would get to grips with fitting doors, regulators, dropping in the engine and gearbox (Ford Tremex T5) and starting the interior which is where I find myself now,

The car needs a new exhaust from the manifold, brake and fuel lines fitting and currently I have a aluminium bonnet with a hole for the engine to poke out of whilst I remain undecided as to how best shape and create the bonnet to achieve the required clearance without making it look too odd.

So a fair bit left to do, but I hoping it's not too long now, thanks for the comments, I will endeavor to turn the positivity into the much needed push to completion!


DuncanM

6,109 posts

278 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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Absolutely stunning! smile

M3ck

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Monday 8th March 2021
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RC1807 said:
Looks good, OP.

Will you be adding some narrative? wink
Narrative added smile

smn159

12,448 posts

216 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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What a fabulous looking car

M3ck

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swampy442

1,472 posts

210 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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That looks gorgeous OP, very nice work!

M3ck

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The bike build, (handed to me as a frame and assortment of boxes and motor) provided a welcome quick project distraction at a time I was getting fed up of everything MG, as well as using up some left over paint smile

Edited by M3ck on Monday 8th March 22:05

bigothunter

11,069 posts

59 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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MGB V8s have character cool Very well executed project in an amazingly organised, clean and tidy workshop. Couldn't help thinking that's an awful lot of carburation (and fuel consumption) for just 290hp. A 4-barrel 830 cfm Holley is enough for over 500hp on our V8 racer.

Paul S4

1,181 posts

209 months

Tuesday 9th March 2021
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Re the bonnet... would a copy of the Costello V8 MG not fit...?, or maybe the MGC.
I am sure you will have considered both !