MX5 engine in B

[rick_ingram]

Okay, okay, it would be easier to score a C that had been rearended and mate it up to a B from the firewall back

I don't know how to break this to you, but an MGC from the firewall back <span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-weight: bold">IS</span></span> an MGB.

So like I said, just use an MGC and forget about the MGB.

Actually, an MGC from the firewall back isn't an MGB....the torsion bars go beyond the firewall, the front floorboards are different, etc.

I don't know why the desire to convert an MGC specifically when there's so many reasons not to....later MGB's are almost a "drop-in".

x2

 

[tony barnhill]

Sell the '69 MGC & buy a Sep 77 or later MGB...convert to chrome bumpers & drop your engine/trans setup in it.

 

[69MGC]

I don't have the 69 C any more. Sold it when I got married to afford a honeymoon trip. Now I am back into MGs and working on a 72 B with mods.

Next on the list is to do a V6 or V8 conversion in a 77+ B, someday.

Kev

 

[billspohn]

Actually, an MGC from the firewall back isn't an MGB....the torsion bars go beyond the firewall, the front floorboards are different, etc.

I don't know why the desire to convert an MGC specifically when there's so many reasons not to....later MGB's are almost a "drop-in".

I know that, Tony, but the OP didn't. No idea why he came up with the crazy idea that you can stick an MGC engine into an MGB easily. Obviously has no experience with these cars.

 

[tony barnhill]

Gotcha!