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MG MGB Roadster und GT Coupe (1962-1980): tuning manuals

A tuning manual on the engine of your MGMG MGB Roadster und GT Coupe (1962-1980)? Here are service and repair manuals on these MG cars. They provide detailed instructions to solve technical problems yourself and to repair or replace parts.

How to Power Tune MGB 4-Cylinder Engines (New Updated & Expanded Edition) (Veloce SpeedPro)

How to get maximum performance from the MGB's four-cylinder B-series engine for road or track. This book tells you all you could want to know, expert tips, and is packed with understandable and down-to-earth advice based on the author's years of hands-on experience.

Features:
- Covers all MGB and MGB GT 4-cylinder engines (except 3-bearing crank engines)
- Explains the 'first principles' of engine power and tuning
- Handy 'power recipes' to help achieve the performance you want
- How to improve airflow, camshafts, carburation, ignition and exhaust
- Lubrication and cooling systems improvements
- Uprating suspension, wheels, tyres and steering for better handling
- How to set-up and tune on a rolling road
- Comprehensive appendix with formulae and tuning data
- Includes cam timing tables for Piper and Kent cams
- List of specialists and suppliers to help with your MGB tune.

Author:Peter Burgess
Specs:144 pages, 25 x 21 x 1.7 cm / 9.8 x 8.25 x 0.67 in, paperback
Illustrations:100 b&w and colour photographs
Publisher:Veloce Publishing Ltd (GB, 2018)
Series:SpeedPro
Book: How to Power Tune MGB 4-Cylinder Engines (New Updated & Expanded Edition) (Veloce SpeedPro)

How to Power Tune MGB 4-Cylinder Engines (New Updated & Expanded Edition)

Language: English

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How to Give Your MGB V8 Power - Double your MGB's power! (4th Edition) (Veloce SpeedPro)

All the information needed to build a V8-powered MGB roadster or GT. Whether converting an existing four-cylinder car or a new bodyshell, build the car of your dreams for the smallest cost. Checked and approved by the MG Owners' Club.

No one contemplating an MGB V8 engine conversion should start the project without reading this book, which is based on the real world experience of many owners and specialists who have re-engined MGBs in the past.
Avoid expensive mistakes and pitfalls and end up with a car that performs, handle and brakes superbly by following the detailed advice compiled over many years by MGB expert, Roger Williams.

Features:
- How to replace the MGB's 4 cylinder engine with a mighty V8
- The definitive guide to every aspect of conversion
- Step by step instructions
- Over 500 illustrations, mainly colour.

Author:Roger Williams
Specs:224 pages, 25 x 20.5 cm / 9.8 x 8.1 in, paperback
Illustrations:505 b&w and colour photographs
Publisher:Veloce Publishing Ltd (GB, 2015)
Series:SpeedPro
Book: How to Give Your MGB V8 Power - Double your MGB's power! (4th Edition) (Veloce SpeedPro)

How to Give Your MGB V8 Power - Double your MGB's power! (4th Edition)

Language: English

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How to Power Tune Rover V8 Engines for Road & Track (Veloce SpeedPro)

Everything you could want top know about increasing the performance and reliability of the Rover V8 engine which has been in production since 1967.
Derived from a Buick design, the engine first appeared in the Rover P5B of 1967, but continued in use through subsequent Rover models: P6 and SD1.
Not only a favourite of kit car builders, the Rover V8 also appeared in Morgans, TVRs, Land Rovers, Range Rovers, MGB V8 and the Leyland P76 in Australia.

Covers all Rover 3.5, 3.9, 4.0 & 4.6 litre engines from 1967 to date.

Pages of the book How to Power Tune Rover V8 Engines for Road & Track (1)

Coverage includes:
- limitations of standard components
- short block preparation/clearances
- solving the oiling & main cap problems of pre- 94 cylinder blocks
- full details of cylinder head modifications
- optimising ignition settings
- exhaust system requirements
- Holley, Weber & SU carburettor/inlet manifold options
- camshaft & valve train requirements
- modifications for racing
- modifications for road use.

Author:Des Hammill
Specs:216 pages, 25 x 20.5 x 2.3 cm / 9.8 x 8.1 x 0.91 in, paperback
Illustrations:190 photographs
Publisher:Veloce Publishing Ltd (GB, 2017)
Series:SpeedPro
Book: How to Power Tune Rover V8 Engines for Road & Track (Veloce SpeedPro)

How to Power Tune Rover V8 Engines for Road & Track

Language: English

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Related titles:

[AKD3900C] MG MGB Tourer Drivers HB (1965)

MG MGB Tourer - Drivers Handbook

English | paperback | 68 p. | 1965

[AKD3900J] MG MGB Tourer & GT HB (1969)

MG MGB Tourer & GT - Official Driver's Handbook

English | paperback | 76 p. | 1969

[AKD7598] MG MGB Tourer & GT HB (1974)

MG MGB Tourer & GT - Official Driver's Handbook

English | paperback | 95 p. | 1974

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