Mgb - Page 2

skyblueads · 13-01-13, 09:53 PM

Ha ha ha. Sssshhh!

daytona365 · 14-01-13, 06:23 AM

If its 1990cc, could be its got the O series conversion. Fits like a glove. Id have one as a summer car, when I move to Monaco!! But for now, I'll keep the ZED.

MG mad · 14-01-13, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by adam

That's a nice looking B, had some work done on the rear too by the looks of things.

Bought one of those Sebring kits to fit to our B originally, the fitment was awful, front wheel arches looked ridiculous from the side profile, the front wings were too short and too long at the same time. The time and money it would've cost to fit was just too prohibitive so we ditched the idea and the kit is just sitting upstairs in the unit.

They all fit like that. Apparently the moulds were taken off the genuine MGC GTS cars, which were hand-beaten aluminium hence the fit is abit average. Whether this is 100% true I don't know, but certainly the moulds are less than ideal. Unfortunately for me, the wife wants some on hers - once I've got them to fit nicely I'll be taking some new moulds, (with 350+ hp it's a given one of us will bend it).

MG mad · 14-01-13, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by daytona365

If its 1990cc, could be its got the O series conversion. Fits like a glove. Id have one as a summer car, when I move to Monaco!! But for now, I'll keep the ZED.

Or it could be someone mis-reading 1950 when entering data? 1950 is a very common overbore size for the B series, 1990 not so much.

petet16 · 14-01-13, 10:55 AM

I just rechecked the dvla site it's actually shown as 1995cc, could be M or T series perhaps

adam · 14-01-13, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by MG mad

They all fit like that. Apparently the moulds were taken off the genuine MGC GTS cars, which were hand-beaten aluminium hence the fit is abit average. Whether this is 100% true I don't know, but certainly the moulds are less than ideal. Unfortunately for me, the wife wants some on hers - once I've got them to fit nicely I'll be taking some new moulds, (with 350+ hp it's a given one of us will bend it).

Nice to know it isn't just the set we bought. We got ours from Honeybourne mouldings and they just weren't interested at all when we complained about the fitment, which was nice.

It'll be interesting to see your moulds when done, do let us know!

We opted for rolling the front arches and flaring the rears on ours to fit the wider wheels...