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[lclark0624]

Just for fun, I'd like to know what how each of you read on a compression test for stock street MGB.s.

 

[Guinn]

150,150,150,150. Stock engine, Speedo reads 27600 but it is probably 127600. No history on the engine. May have been rebuilt for all I can find out.

Guinn

 

[Steve_S]

160, 140, 140, 165 last time I checked. Then I did a valve job.

 

[DrEntropy]

I'm out:

What's "stock?" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[mgbmedic]

148-146-146-148 1969 MGB/GT. Haven't checked my 76 B, but I bet it's a lot less than the 69.

 

[Guinn]

Stock? How about "unmolested"? Like from the factory. heck, I don't know! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazyeyes.gif

Guinn

 

[Nunyas]

we have car molesters in our midst?!?

should I be afraid? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif

 

[John Moore]

I think I had around 165 across the board. It's not important so much what the guage reads, as much as there is not more than a 10% difference between the cyclinders.

 

[Guinn]

Yeh, we got car molesters. Like the ones that put a 10 cyl Ford or Dodge in an MGA! I think maybe it was Jarrod down under that sent me a picture of an A with this HUGE engine that might have been a 10 cylinder. Awesome.

Guinn

 

[Nunyas]

10 cylinder? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif I think they'd have to change so much of the car to make that work that I wouldn't consider it an MG anymore. heh

 

[Steve_S]

I have a photo of an MGB with a Jaguar V12 shoehorned in it.

 

[mgbmedic]

Guinn, I think it was a 454 in a MGB with ungodly fender flares.

 

[mgbmedic]

...or the midget with a harley-davidson engine!!!

 

[Guinn]

The engine probably was a big V8 but the body was definitely a Spridget.

Guinn