Matty Posted May 10, 2022 Author Share Posted May 10, 2022 No photos of oil changes on engine, gearbox and diff cos I reckon we all know what they look like. Had a new gasket to fit under oil filter housing as well as it was weeping. Anyone want to take a rough set of 13x4.5 rostyles off my hands? 😁 eddyramrod and Dyslexic Viking 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted May 10, 2022 Author Share Posted May 10, 2022 And finally, the money shots. How bloody good do they look?!? Exactly the picture I had in my head before I even bought the car. Slightly wider at 13x5.5 but I've stuck with the same sized tyre (165/70) so I've just got a bit more graduation from contact patch to sidewall I guess. eddyramrod, Low Horatio gearbox, HMC and 24 others 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted May 10, 2022 Author Share Posted May 10, 2022 Next big job as funds allow is a new exhaust made for it as the home made effort on it is abysmal. Then new period correct buckets to replace the Rover metro seats. Better work some overtime then 😆 tooSavvy and puddlethumper 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puddlethumper Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 That looks excellent @Matty. Like it. Matty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted May 10, 2022 Author Share Posted May 10, 2022 21 minutes ago, puddlethumper said: That looks excellent @Matty. Like it. Thanks very much. It's as rough as toast with its paint job and the interior is a bitsa but for me it's part of its charm. It's to use not polish and it goes really well ! puddlethumper 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 Those wheels look ace 11/10 Matty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 Brill. All that a car needs to be. Matty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mally Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 On 5/7/2022 at 10:33 PM, Matty said: Out of interest, albeit you've not been far yet, but bgt or midget so far, which do you like more? Midget reminded me of sitting in a 3 wheeled Reliant. Legs down a too small tunnel sort of thing. I didn't enjoy it enough to buy one MGB Gt proper car. Roadster I never took to somehow. Gt had wider tyres, dunno if that made the difference. Matty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schonker Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 I loved the rostyles and didn't think you could do any better, but those new wheels look great Matty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 Now that's how an A40 should look! BLoody good work, hope you enjoy driving it. Matty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted May 10, 2022 Author Share Posted May 10, 2022 35 minutes ago, schonker said: I loved the rostyles and didn't think you could do any better, but those new wheels look great D'ya wanna buy a set? Painted with humbrol and shod with 20 year old stomils? 😄 eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted May 10, 2022 Author Share Posted May 10, 2022 6 minutes ago, High Jetter said: Now that's how an A40 should look! BLoody good work, hope you enjoy driving it. Cheers bud. Yes I really do enjoy driving it. I'm hoping that the driving it/mending it balance is beginning to tilt in my favour 😂 (famous last words) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted May 10, 2022 Author Share Posted May 10, 2022 47 minutes ago, Mally said: MGB Gt proper car A very good looking car too. Even impact bumpers couldn't stop it being a pretty shape! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mally Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 13 minutes ago, Matty said: A very good looking car too. Even impact bumpers couldn't stop it being a pretty shape! Chrome bumper FTW. Matty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted May 10, 2022 Author Share Posted May 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Mally said: Chrome bumper FTW. Obvs 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 I prefer the rubber bumpers especially with the front splitter, but no one believes me! mat_the_cat and Matty 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted May 10, 2022 Author Share Posted May 10, 2022 6 minutes ago, SiC said: I prefer the rubber bumpers especially with the front splitter, but no one believes me! Not quite as pretty as a chrome bumper, but with the benefit of hindsight they do a bloody good job of integrating them into the design Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 It was very important, to get US homologation. Interesting to wonder how the design might have developed otherwise. +1 for chrome Matty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 2 hours ago, SiC said: I prefer the rubber bumpers especially with the front splitter, but no one believes me! They don't photograph well, that's the trouble. Get the right colour - black, chocolate brown, bright yellow, white - and lowered back to pre-rubber height they actually look pretty good in person. The new wheels on the A40 look really good, matches the rest of the car very nicely. The seat upgrade is a great choice too, for when that happens. Matty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted June 11, 2022 Author Share Posted June 11, 2022 I had a bit of a good update planned for tonight but it turned out an anticlimax in the end. We had planned a good run out to acid test mine and a 280 TVR Tamsin that our Tony bought not long after I got mine. The Motorist up in North Yorkshire was running a "cars you don't see anymore" meet today. Well, from where we are (east lancs) what a nice run. Burnley to Skipton, over Blubberhouses to Harrogate and onward. Run went well, the little Austin seems to be getting quicker all the time. The meet itself, what a waste of time. There were plenty of people there, but no cars save a row of mark 2 and 3 cavaliers. We parked up and got a brew and there were folk all over ours taking pictures and stuff. Poor buggers, they'd obviously been there all day waiting to look at something decent and ours was the best it got. Then another poor bastard in a lovely A60 Cambridge turned up having driven all the way from Sale. No sooner had we said "what a lovely thing, didn't they look mint as an estate" than one drove in! And look at the paucity in front of him and drove straight out 😂 Anyway, some shit photos cos I was a bit deflated. tooSavvy, eddyramrod and Dyslexic Viking 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted June 11, 2022 Author Share Posted June 11, 2022 Above a lovely 912 we followed for a bit near Whalley. Photo courtesy of my glamorous Co pilot Ryan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted June 11, 2022 Author Share Posted June 11, 2022 The entire car content of the "car meet". tooSavvy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted June 11, 2022 Author Share Posted June 11, 2022 Good news is the A40 flew there and back. Pulls really well, far better than a standard 1098. Didn't use a drop of oil or water. Developed a slight miss after getting stinking hot crawling through a very congested Harrogate on the way home, but soon cleared with some fresh air. Much better updates available when I've sold some shit and freed up some funds for adjustable telescopics on the back end and uprated valves for me armstrongs on the front. Seats will have to wait 😄 Fin. AnnoyingPentium, captain_70s, Dyslexic Viking and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 1 hour ago, Matty said: The entire car content of the "car meet". Where are these big car parking spaces? Matty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted June 11, 2022 Author Share Posted June 11, 2022 10 minutes ago, High Jetter said: Where are these big car parking spaces? I reckon they were expecting so much turnout that they'd need to double up 😄 tooSavvy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Spart Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 On 5/6/2022 at 9:45 PM, Mally said: I'm sure* it will be fine...............but the rotor arm on @Mrs Spart 's MGB was Distributer Doctor like your's. That's why I didn't twig it straight away. It had been stood a while though. And it's still running like a dream... Took it out to a Jubilee Event recently 👌🏽♥️👌🏽 Dick Longbridge, Datsuncog, eddyramrod and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat_the_cat Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 On 5/10/2022 at 9:23 PM, SiC said: I prefer the rubber bumpers especially with the front splitter, but no one believes me! You aren't the only one! SiC and Matty 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrubworks Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Check out this guy sending it: New wheels look sweet by the way 👌. Vantman, Matty, somewhatfoolish and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted August 9, 2022 Author Share Posted August 9, 2022 Thanks for that @Scrubworks. Nothing much going on at present. The state of the suspension front and back us increasingly making itself known. I reckon the PO just nailed the car back together using all the old components. Every rubber Bush is old and perished, the lever arms at the front are comically soft and the telescopics at the rear rattle and bang. I've identified a complete front end poly Bush kit at Motobuild, a firm down Kent which makes and supplies uprated and adjustable valves for the armstrong dampers and Spax are still making uprated gas filled telescopics. However, I'm not keen on spending family money on this project, so I'm in the process of trying to sell some stuff to free up funds. So hopefully some better updates in the next few months! eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrubworks Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 7 hours ago, Matty said: Thanks for that @Scrubworks. Nothing much going on at present. The state of the suspension front and back us increasingly making itself known. I reckon the PO just nailed the car back together using all the old components. Every rubber Bush is old and perished, the lever arms at the front are comically soft and the telescopics at the rear rattle and bang. I've identified a complete front end poly Bush kit at Motobuild, a firm down Kent which makes and supplies uprated and adjustable valves for the armstrong dampers and Spax are still making uprated gas filled telescopics. However, I'm not keen on spending family money on this project, so I'm in the process of trying to sell some stuff to free up funds. So hopefully some better updates in the next few months! Much like my Minor then. Pulled the front suspension apart last year, and found some bushes that were basically non-existent, and some that still said MOWOG on them and had clearly never been changed. Polybushing will make it much better. I prefer SuperPro brand bushes myself but on a design this old it hardly matters. The armstrong dampers can be refilled with a thicker oil if you want to uprate them. I filled the ones on my Moggy with SAE 40 oil (standard is SAE 20), which would be perfect for a track, but on the road is way too harsh. I'm now draining and refilling them again to SAE 30 which should be ok. For the rear, check the U bolts that hold the axle onto the springs. They can loosen over time and cause issues, and often get overlooked. eddyramrod and Matty 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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