Leons MGB V8 – Olds 215ci

  After over 20 years with the original hugger headers made by Mike The Pipe in England I had to get new headers – they developed many cracks…

Where and how my oil filter is located. It is a MOCAL remote oil filter head using the side inlet/outlets – there are a lot of heads that have…

This is a page from my first website for the MGB V8. I’ve added my comments to the right after 23 years of it being on the road. 04/16/98 …

Current transmission is a Borg Warner T5 – not world class. Originally I used the tranny Mike picked out – a T50-5. It was from a 1975…

This is the control head for the Sniper. Top left is the Throttle Position Sensor (TPS) – it auto resets to 0 each time you start it. Under…

Battery Charger Multiplexer Living in the North East if you have an older car or a boat, or lawn mower or other vehicle that starts with a battery…

This was the mounting of things when I had the Buick engine. Now with the Oldsmobile engine the alternator is on the other side and I have a…

My daughter, son-in-law and I putting the car back together after the new paint job. As a reward they got to be the first to drive it all together…

In the paint booth prepaint2booth3booth4abooth5booth6booth7jackmgbbprepaint1

While putting the car together the first time I ran across these parts. Couldn’t find out from the parts catalog what they were and we’d…

These are the old motor mounts – need to put in stiffer mounts so the engine doesn’t move around so much….

Older (1975) magazine articles about engine swapping – Aluminum V8’s in MGs and Vegas. These are quotes from Perterson’s Complete…

Pics of the headers – taken during the 2010 rebuild. These had been Jet-Hot Coated. I took them over to Scottsville and had them Swain Coater…