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2006 is off to a flying carstart!

For Emma: ZS is out, SUs are on their way back, will be installed over the weekend or very early next week. New exhaust system from the manifold back is ordered.
New front brake lines ordered. And I'm buying a new fuel pump and pressure regulator to put on her right away as well. Hopefully this will resolve ANY carburetion/fuel pump issues that currently exist! OD is sitting on the garage floor and will go in before spring too. Engine bay needs spiffed up (okay, CLEANED).

Gas tank, and everything that was left, is off Binabox. She's as ready for the body/paint shop as she'll ever be. Hopefully we'll decide on a COLOR soon and she'll be in the shop for a paint job before the first-estimated date of late-March/early April. Need to decide so we can order tops/interior/seats etc. Need to get the bumpers and grille rechromed (some place locally I hope) SUs are rebuilt and waiting, block, head and crank are at the machine shop. We're going to start rebuilding the engine as soon as we get that back. There's still a shot she'll be done for MG2006!!!

Life is good, life is very good!
 
That's kinda exciting, jaybird! At least ~some~ of us are accelerating the pace of a project. WooHooo!!
 
Great! could you pass some of your "onnaroll" this way.
My project is getting a boost too.
Supposedly there is payment en-route for my TR4.
If the deal goes through then I'll have some cash to get started on the TR2! yeee haw!
That'll get things a rollin in 06.
 
Don't know that I'd try to rechrome the grille - most of it was stailess....& unless you're just dead set on originality, I'd go with the new Moss bumpers!
 
The Moss repros don't fit up quite right though, do they?
 
The new ones do
 
Ugh this is all going to be a P-A-I-N, isn't it!? I need to start a list. What we need to decide on (i.e., colors) and what we need to order like tops, interior, bumpers.
 
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Ugh this is all going to be a P-A-I-N, isn't it!? I need to start a list. What we need to decide on (i.e., colors) and what we need to order like tops, interior, bumpers.

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Well, you have a red one...why not green? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif BRG???
or that cool silver that Stewart used is nice /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
but then, I have alway like blue...or Glacier White /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif
LMAO....Ok...have fun with the color choice /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nopity.gif

Bruce /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif
 
How 'bout gettin' a colour chart and some darts?

When it's finished and people look at it askance you can say: "Hey, it's called "Binabox" 'cause it came to us in bits 'n pieces... we just put 'em all together!"
 
how 'bout getting a third B and painting it blue... that way you can have a red one, a white one, and a blue one... nice n patriotic n stuff... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
More updates!

The gas tank, radiator and ummm I forget what else for Binabox are at the guy's shop uptown, getting cleaned and spiffied up. Oil cooler's going into Emma this weekend.
 
Why is Emma getting an oil cooler?
 
Cause they're cool! Duh.
Get it? huh huh, wink wink, nudge nudge, know what I mean, know what I mean? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
There probably was a reason why she didn't have one from the factory...

Glen Towry told me that if I put an oil cooler on my V8 car, he'd void the engine's warranty!

Oil cooler can cause more trouble than good - especially if it keeps the oil too 'cool' (not Fonzie cool, cold cool!)!
 
Ummm, because a guy in the car club gave me one over the summer when I was having all the problems with Emma running so hot, and everything we did, including changing thermostats didn't help. He installed one on his B and it solved his 'hot' problem. Chuck wants to go ahead and put it on. I want to wait til summer and see if the new water pump, carbs and hopefully OD solve the problem.
 
New water pump will definitely help your heat problem. You might even consider running a modern, rad-mounted e-fan in place of the stockers (if you haven't done so already, that is).

Oil coolers, especially with modern oil formulations, can be more trouble than they're worth. That's why you don't find them on newer cars anymore.

If you have heat problems in hot weather, you might try a rigorous reverse flush of the rad and block with some flushing compound. Having your rad checked out/recored/rerodded by a rad shop would be a good idea too, if you haven't done so already. The reverse flush and a new thermostat cured my heating problem on my '77. Hope this helps.
 
I must disagree. My PU and the son's PU have engine oil coolers. I have one on my B GT and it is no trouble.

Bruce L

Just waiting for the head to come back.
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/driving.gif
 
If you have heat problems in hot weather, you might try a rigorous reverse flush of the rad and block with some flushing compound. Having your rad checked out/recored/rerodded by a rad shop would be a good idea too, if you haven't done so already. The reverse flush and a new thermostat cured my heating problem on my '77. Hope this helps.

Josh, you haven't been around long enough to remember, but I've done all that on Emma (my '75), ran a 160 'stat over the summer, engine temp still ran between N & H constantly, many times touching the H. Nothing helped, until we put the new water pump on. And that was in November, so we haven't really been able to test it since it's wintertime in the midwest.
 
Ah I see...thanks for the correction, jaybird. The new water pump might have done the trick, but obviously the real test will come in the hot months.

I'm going to put a rad-mounted E-fan on mine in place of the stock units (one of them is dead anyway, and my rad doesn't have the provision for the fan switch; presumably an earlier rad). Temp has held steady at N with the single fan running full time, even during the summer months that I had it.
 
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