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[Scott Dorsey]

Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>The electrics are not as bad as legend has it but, again,
>with todays technology all of it can be fixed.  I have a
>modern distributor with the whole electronic ignition
>built-in.  I am going to put a headlight relay in this
>spring to brighten up the headlights and take the strain
>of the complicated (and expensive) light switch.  I am
>going to change all the other lights to LEDs making them
>brighter and drawing considerably less power from the
>system thus taking the strain of the alternator and
>battery.  I already changed the carburetor to one that
>is considerably more efficient than the tractor carb
>they came from the factory with.  Trust me, they were
>never as bad as the legends.  Before it went into storage
>(for 10 year!) I regularly drove it thousands of miles.

I learned to drive in an MGB... and although I have to say the later
ones with 12V negative-ground systems weren't so bad, the 6V systems
were kind of awful.  Get a GM 1-wire alternator in there, 12V light bulbs,
get the windshield wiper motor and the starter rewound for 12V and it was
like night and day....

>I made regular trips to Canada (where I was a member of a
>British Car Club) and I drove it numerous times to GA
>for my Army trips to Ft. Gordon.  A very reliable and
>fun ride.  But the more I think of it, the more I
>think it  might be even more fun as an all electric.
>I wonder, does Lucas make an electric drive?  :-)

My dad's friend had a sticker "The Parts Falling Off This Car Are Of the
Finest British Manufacture."  Things got better when they started using
standard SAE fasteners too.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."