B-Series Engines, eh?

Post by **plastic_orange** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 4:01 pm

To clarify the perceived handling problem, I had no trouble at all in the 100,000 miles I did in my MGB engined lowlight.
This includes trips to the south of England on numerous occasions attending custom car events.
In the dry I did not have to slow down much for any corner, and would place it's handling equivalent to any Escort mexico etc in it's day (Minor was a lot quicker though).
I eventually took the lowlight to bits in order to construct a chassis for a ford V8 powerplant and have never finished it (this year maybe), but I put it's engine into a Wolseley 1500 I had purchased. I did not bother about transferring the brakes, shocks etc (they went on another Minor I built), and sold the car soon after. It definately did not handle as well as the minor - lots of body roll (even on wide alloys), but as a package was probably more refined than the minor.
If you look at the centre point of the front suspension, and measure how much of the engine sits forward of this it will give you an idea of the respective weight over the front end on the 2 cars. Not having a riley or wolseley to hand I'm guessing that with both cars having a similar floorpan, there will be more front overhang on the Riley/Wolseley making this more of an understeerer than a B series engined minor.
Incidentally, I still have most bits including proper exhaust manifolds for this conversion - I think.
My V8 engined series 2 (lowlight lookalike) has the engine placed well back in the shell, but this still likes to go straight on in the wet - mind you so does a standard minor- especially on crossplies.

Post by **JustinMinor1000** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 4:57 pm

Are the 2.25 and 2.5 Litre engines fitted to Landrovers B-Series engines ?

Post by **plastic_orange** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 6:00 pm

Post by **wanderinstar** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 7:18 pm

Bigginger,
[How on earth do you put quotes on here] Your damn right hes tetchy I quoted something he said and would you believe it hes banned me.

Kay sera sera!

Wanderinstar.

Post by **Kevin** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:39 am

Bigginger,
[How on earth do you put quotes on here]

Right click to highlight the text you want to include and then click the quote button in quick reply

Post by **wanderinstar** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:51 pm

Kevin,

Cheers Kevin

Post by **wanderinstar** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:57 pm

Kevin,

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See if it works this tlme.

Post by **theminorsite** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 3:01 pm

Sorry you feel that way, Ginge.
Ive removed the whole thread to avoid any mention of favouritism - ANYONE is welcome to post there, on the single caveat that they dont seek to offend anyone else. I think the same kind of user agreement is on this board, too!

Post by **plastic_orange** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 3:12 pm

Mike,
I feel that you should have left this topic on the site, because if people want to shoot themselves in the foot it is up to them, and they soon get found out.
Besides it makes life interesting.

Cheers

Pete

Post by **theminorsite** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 4:38 pm

plastic_orange wrote:Mike,
I feel that you should have left this topic on the site, because if people want to shoot themselves in the foot it is up to them, and they soon get found out.
Besides it makes life interesting.

Cheers

Pete

LOL, yeah I'm with that! Unfortunately I cant 'bring it back' now - once deleted, its gone forever.

Post by **bigginger** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 5:06 pm

theminorsite wrote:Sorry you feel that way, Ginge.
Ive removed the whole thread to avoid any mention of favouritism - ANYONE is welcome to post there, on the single caveat that they dont seek to offend anyone else. I think the same kind of user agreement is on this board, too!

Suits me - I really didn't mean to open up a tin of lumbricus.

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