MG
Midget Cobra with a 5.0 Ford V8
We were contacted by Ron Hourigan,
an MG enthusiast in the USA, mentoning he has an MG Midget Cobra V8. How on earth
you fit a Ford V8 engine in a Midget seems beyond belief - but Ron's photos show
it can be done!.
See our report with Ron Hurigan's photos. More
Posted:
161104 |  | Ron
Hourigan says "I'm 72 years old and have been a MGB lover for 40 years
and owned 10 of them. I'm also a retired corporate jet pilot having been racing
Fords for 40 years - of late model stock cars. I always had in the back of my
mind putting a small block Ford engine and driveline in a MGB having seen many
with the aluminum Rover V8. I started looking for a solid MGB but for years could
not find one not severely rusted. Other cars were too nice as originals to use.
Then I happened to run across a MG Midget in a salvage yard which came
from Arizona with 40,000 miles but it had been bought for salvage because the
owner had died before surrendering the title. So it could not be bought or sold
in Indiana without the Arizona title having a notarized owner signature. it took
me 3 years to find a next of kin willing to do the paperwork for a legal title
in Indiana. | | Then,
as I was looking into the MGV8 websites I realized that nobody had ever tried
to V8 a Midget that I could find. Now I was really excited about the Midget project
- maybe being a One-Of! Now Iam starting my 4th year of the project and it is
scheduled for the upholstery shop the end of this month. I have a complete picture
documentary of the project if you were to be interested but here are a few photos.
The engine is a 400hp 5.0 Ford with Aluminum heads, Edelbrock dual quads, C4 Automatic
Transmission, Ford Explorer 8.8 rear end 3.70 gear tracLock, Mustang II front
suspension with P/S Rack, and four wheel disc brakes". |
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