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Marblehead, MA, USA
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We're soooo close to reinstalling this engine! The block is prepped, and the top-end is assembled. We're now attaching all of the "other stuff", and for this installment it's the manifolds.
The exhaust manifold appears to be the original unit for the car. It even had a semi-functioning EGR valve that looked like a UFO. I was able to remove it without destroying any of the componentry, along with the weird little elbow wrapped in flame-resistant material. The hole was easily plugged with a 1/2" flange nut from Home Depot -- yet another quick tip/hack picked up from our wonderful MG Experience community. We've coated the exhaust manifold with POR-15 High Temperature paint, in Manifold Gray, of course!
Along with the refreshed exhaust manifold is a new Pierce intake manifold and barely-used Weber 32/36 manual choke carburetor, purchased from our own @tmessenger. It seems that half the community thinks the Weber is just fine, and the other half thinks it's atrocious. I'm optimistic about it, but I have our original ZS carb sitting on the shelf, just in case. Like most of us I'm daydreaming about a dual-SU setup, but that's not in the cards for this car. At least not for us. At least not this year.
<br/>Marblehead MG - Episode 32: Manifolds
The exhaust manifold appears to be the original unit for the car. It even had a semi-functioning EGR valve that looked like a UFO. I was able to remove it without destroying any of the componentry, along with the weird little elbow wrapped in flame-resistant material. The hole was easily plugged with a 1/2" flange nut from Home Depot -- yet another quick tip/hack picked up from our wonderful MG Experience community. We've coated the exhaust manifold with POR-15 High Temperature paint, in Manifold Gray, of course!
Along with the refreshed exhaust manifold is a new Pierce intake manifold and barely-used Weber 32/36 manual choke carburetor, purchased from our own @tmessenger. It seems that half the community thinks the Weber is just fine, and the other half thinks it's atrocious. I'm optimistic about it, but I have our original ZS carb sitting on the shelf, just in case. Like most of us I'm daydreaming about a dual-SU setup, but that's not in the cards for this car. At least not for us. At least not this year.
<br/>Marblehead MG - Episode 32: Manifolds
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