Do you guys look at the "race car" section when new threads pop up there? (If not, you're messin' up.)

In case you missed it, here's a cross-post for you:

QuoteI know you guys will love this one!

click here: <a href="http://www.britishracecar.com/StormField-MG-MGBGTV8.htm">Storm Field's MGB GT V8 Race Car</a>   (59 photos plus write-up)

preview:

1) Very clean installation.
2) At what point are front sway bar pillow blocks required, if at all?
3) Appears to be no additional strengthening at front springs mounts for anti-tramp bars (beefed-up mounts/u-channel) or not needed due to rollcage or other strengthening.
4) Thought the performer intake becomes asthmatic @ 5500 - 5800?
5) Curious as to rear ratio or range of ratios?

Intensely clean vehicle. Nice choice of engine ancillaries, like the breather. I like that the builder didn't get over-fancy with the choices of parts - solid, basic stuff that will really hold up well. The detail on the body is very easy on the eyes, too.

I notice that a lot of the links are in single shear, although, on the rear axle, one end of a control arm is single-shear, the other is double shear. One of the tramp bars (in single shear) looks like it has bent its mounting bolt. Also, wonder if the owner is having trouble with the rear u-joint. Looks like the driveshaft is nearly straight with the axle.

I'll bet that is a gas to race.

that car looks fast just sitting there!!

Great car, Those lowering blocks aren't doing any lowering,I guess they are there to give a lower position for the anti tramp. I agree about single and double shear on bolt locations, if possible should always be double shear.

My guess is that the "lowering blocks" are there to suit the working length of the shock absorbers. (In other words, I'm thinking someone realized that the Koni shocks were about an inch too long once they lowered the car.)

The anti-tramp bars and the rear sway bar are both from Fab-Tek. Single shear mounting of the forward end of the anti-tramp bars really bugs me too - but the really weird thing is that Fab-Tek's original design had those particular Heim joints mounted properly, in double shear. Here you can see the earlier design on the Marcus Jones / Don Munoz MGB roadster:

We added another MG to the race car gallery this morning.

But this one is a little different from Storm's GT:
Dan Leonard's 1949 MG TC Special Race Car, Number 409