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MG Car Club of South Australia
CLUB REGISTRATION NEWS From.. Geoff Goode
CLUB REGISTRATION FOR HISTORIC VEHICLES JUST 3 DOCUMENTS- AGAIN
rom now onwards, Historic Vehicle owners have only three documents to worry about when log book updates or renewals are required( at the end of the Club’ s current financial year) in January and February this year. No need to present your car for reinspection or bring in a stat dec.
We, the inspectors, need to see just three things: your new membership card to show you are continuing as a financial member, your blue rego papers for us to stamp to prove you are the owner of the vehicle and finally, your log book, for updating or for cancellation and replacement. The red printed date on the front cover shows when replacement is due, still at a cost of only $ 5. From now on, it’ s now that simple!
So, for the rest of this year, we will be available for receiving subscription fees and updating or replacing log books on Saturdays from 10am to 12 noon on the following dates: February 3, 10, 17 and 24. Normal operations resume for the remainder of the year from March to November 2018 on the 2 nd and 4 th Saturdays of each month, finishing for the year on December 1 and 8.
Alternatively, you can post in a stamped self addressed envelope, log book and blue rego papers with your subscription payment and the renewal notice. Don’ t forget to include $ 5 in your payment for a new log book if your old one is about to expire.
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On MGA matters, unless you modify your vehicle, your standard SU electric HP fuel pump will be OK for all possible hard driving conditions. For example, consider a drive up a very long steep hill at 110 KPH on a hot day after driving in the country for several hours. At this speed your engine is probably at or just past its maximum torque output and therefore, consuming close to its maximum rate of fuel per kilometre.
If the engine begins to lose power only to regain it after you have eased off, then another loss of power after you have resumed with accelerator” flat to the floor”, you probably are suffering temporary fuel starvation in the engine. If you stop and examine the spark plugs and their insulators are completely white, this confirms the temporary lack of fuel. Could be caused by any number of possibilities such as a blockage in the fuel line, carburettor problems or almost completely out of fuel!
However, if you have increased the engine’ s specific output through fitting a fast road camshaft, modifying the cylinder head with larger valves or even used an early MGB engine in an engine replacement operation, the inadequacies of the electric fuel pump may well be the cause of your difficulties.
The minimum rate of output from the pump, in good condition, is 7 gallons per hour. Standard MGB’ s may require up to 7 gallons per hour, reference Peter Burgess’ book“ How to Power Tune MGB 4 Cylinder Engines”, appendix 1.
I suspect some MGB’ s exceeded this occasionally. Perhaps, based on feedback from drivers in America experienc-