it's time for show-off Sunday, where everyone has a chance to show off their
own car, and here's this week's winner,
this is my first and only car that I bought during high school from my junior
high music instructor, he called me up the summer after my freshman year of
high school, and asked if I was getting my driver's permit soon, which I said yes to,
he replied with, well how would you like to have my 1973 MGB, being a
fifteen year old, I had no idea what a MGB was, so I was on the phone with him I
quickly googled it, and once I saw some pictures I very quickly said heck yeah, I
like to say that I bought the car in boxes, most because it came with the
engine and transmission removed from the car
my music instructor had rebuilt the factory 4-speed transmission and removed
the engine and replaced the rear main oil seal, but could not find the time to
finish the project, hence why he sold it to me, over the course of the next year
or so, my father and I began to reassemble the car, originally the engine
and engine bay was black, but we decided to clean it up and paint it red to match
the color of the car, my dad was really the main proponent of that since I
really wasn't too enthusiastic about cleaning up 40 years of worth of grease
to paint it, but I am grateful I went through that effort now, we got it
running and I drove around for my senior year of high school
but I soon noticed that the engine had very low oil pressure and was only
getting 90 psi of compression in each cylinder, during the summer after I
graduated, my dad and I tore apart the engine again and gave it the Refresh it
needed by rebuilding the head, putting in new rings, con rod bearings and a new oil
pump, after breaking in the refreshed engine
I drove at 650 miles from where I grew up in Southern California to Utah, where
I am now going to college, this video here was taken during my road
trip up to school, since the car is my daily driver
I installed a luggage rack so I could fit more things into the car if need be
even without the luggage rack though, the trunk does have quite a bit of space in
it for a car this size, which is nice for people that daily drive it like me
although I did get a new soft top for it, I also got the hardtop because I figured
it would work better in inclement weather than the soft top would, I also
think that the white contrasts very nicely with the red paint, here's a
little bit about the car mechanicals, the engine is 1800 CC 4-cylinder pushrod
overhead valve, with dual su carburetors, the carbs are a pain to tune and balance
but once they're set, they are very reliable and very simple to work on
which is nice, one unique thing about this car is that the intake and exhaust
are located on the same side of the engine, in order to make it easy to
access the spark plugs and electrical system, it has the old-style
distributor and then a point style su fuel pump that is mounted at the
back of the car on the fuel tank, the steering is very tight because it has
rack and pinion steering and with this low center of gravity and good handling
it makes this car a blast to drive on a Canyon Road, the dash is quite simple
with a speedometer, oil pressure, fuel gauge, temperature gauge, and a
manual choke for starting the car, it also has a red ignition light that turns
on whenever the alternator is not charging the battery, which helps with
diagnosing electrical problems, one thing they did a very good job of doing with
this car is designing the interior, because although it is a very small car
the driver and passenger have quite a bit of legroom
Thank You Scotty Kilmer for featuring my car and hope you all enjoyed the video,
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