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Well, the car has finally seen the light of day for the first time in 4 1/2 years! Moved a lot of gear including a Pulmax, two engines, a large TIG machine and another car to get the B out into the sunlight. Worked through a few electrical gremlins over the weekend, checked caster and camber and set the toe-in. Took a short drive up the road and everything but the tach is working, got a pulse from the coil and good voltage so got to dig behind the dash.  Not looking forward to that. The carb has to be looked at as well.......running way too rich right across the board. Going to check the floats again, changed the jets (smaller) to D & D's recommendations for this engine when it went in 2 years ago. Looking forward to a longer drive in a couple of days.  May be able to get the car to our club meeting on Wednesday evening.

Congratulations - it's really looking great, Phil!

Phil, don't forget to waterproof the boot (trunk) so you can haul the Moosehead next year!  Really, it is a great looking car and I know the build  quality is excellent.     BTY,   we'd like to send you some of our 100's F.in exchange for some of your 70's F.

I'm so envious; the more I work on mine it seems the further the road is away.  It looks great Phil.

Another Canuck conversion hits the road.......I'm going to celebrate by hoisting an extra pint tonight.

Phil, I was looking at your pictures and wandering what radiator you used.  I just installed a 65' Mustang six cylinder radiator in my project about an hour ago and while it barely clears the hood the bottom is only about four or five inches off the driveway.  It's a mock-up radiator a friend gave me and I was going to buy a new one to actually use, but now I'm not so sure.  I may have to go back to the drawing board.

"P"

Great looking car Phil...congrats on a job well done!

Looking forward to seeing it in Tennessee!!  Congratulations!

I see that you are using a remote air filter, very nice. Is the intake for that filter vented through the fender or other?

Phil, I also liked your air intake.  Did you buy the carb box or did you make it?

Hi Paul M and Paul S:

The remote air filter and carb box are both custom made from flat sheet aluminum.  The ends for the air filter canister were spun on a lathe.  The hoses are silicone rubber from an aircraft heater system.  The air intake is behind the grill in the custom aluminum radiator support panel.  The small box with the knob in the third photo is the controller for the electric puller fan.

Very nice work on the air filter canister Phil. Not too may people around who do metal spinning. Also looking forward to seeing you car in Townsend.

JB

Thanks Phil, as I do most of the lathe and mill work in our shop I know how diffacult it is to spin, at least how diffacult it would be for me to do it.  You are a fabricator and a craftsman; good work and a great looking car.



What radiator did you use?

Paul....the rad is from a 1966 Mustang, 289 v8.  Quite a few of the conversions use this radiator.  It fits nicely between the frame rails of a B.

Thanks Phil, I might give that a try.

Paul, It is the same dimensions as the 6 cyl radiator but the lower hose is on the other side. You would have to use an early 289 water pump(inlet opposite from newer Ford) and that would change your front cover, pulleys and belts. They both hang down about 5" from the road. Most people build a guard out of channel(skid plate) and avoid speed bumps.I prefer the cross flow 19"H X 22"W where you notch the frame members. Look in the "How it was Done" articles on this site. Specifically Ford V8.

Thanks Jim, this radiator thing is more diffacult than I thought.  If a radiator shop can change tanks, could they shorten the core a little?  Probably a dumb idea, but just a thought.

In a downflow type radiator the width of the rad is fixed, but you can certaiinly specify how tall to make the core. It follows that a crossflow rad has a fixed height but one can vary the core width.

Phil,

Beautiful V8 MGB !

Craftsmanship personified.

keep them on the track,

phillip g