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The latest updated list of engines fitted and not needing too much in the way of serious modifications...
So I have taken the V8s out.
Riley 9
Jap
Reliant 750 S/V based on A7
Reliant 850 OHV based on Standard Triumph
3 cylinder 2-stroke
Kubota
A-Series 948
A-Series 1098
A-Series 1275
Lister
Ford model A
Ford 4 cylinder S/V
Rosengart
Honda V-Twin
Rudge
Suzuki G10
Coventry Climax
Electric
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There was a line of Austins parked at Moreton and the general hubub was pierced by a LOUD Pop Pop Bang Bang! Looking to my left arose a large ball of blue smoke, what is that? A joyous scruffy special emerged and with a Bang Bang and hair flying whizzed off into the crowd.
What was that? Sounded like a 1 or 2 cylinder.
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It was VAT 69, first a 1930 Cleone engine then an ABC Scorpion from 1921?
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Location: Sheffield South Yorks
Car type: 1932 RN saloon
Nobody has mentioned the smaller vintage MG engines M type, PA/PB. Probably because they are rare and expensive (and heavy)
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Have they been used in A7s, Dave?
I know of an MG with a Ford engine it it, just near us, here.
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The swap of an OHC MG for a later Ford (10?) unit was quite a common thing in the 50s and 60s as the OHC units proved difficult to maintain for the impecunious working in a pre-fabricated asbestos garage with only a hammer and adjustable spanner...
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R, not that I know of but I helped a friend rebuild his MG PA engine. It’s pretty heavy for its standard output of 35bhp but they are sometimes supercharged. I thought that in times past it would have been an option although I think that the relatively complex overhead cam drive via the dynamo getting oiled up caused many to be replaced by a sidevalve Ford 8 or 10.
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I know nothing of them, just that they look nice, when overtaking me!
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MG engines in A7 chassis. The two I am aware of were Ken Wharton’s very successful hill climb car circa 1948 and young Colin Vandervell’s Cambridge Special of the J2 variety. I believe both were o h c engines.
Regards
Stuart
