MG Quiz

Abingdon Police Station – on the site of “A” block of the old MG Abingdon factory.


As the part is sitting on a “No Hot Ashes” plinth – could it be part of a Stanley Steam car? :slapme:

Mark I am not an engineer so my knowledge of engines is limited but is it a manifold of a 1.8 K series VVC engine?

mr forgrtfull correct on the fist part
but not close enough on the second part

have a think on mods to the F 1.8i ??????

a little help on the inlet manifold question
look at the top of the inlet manifold there is no vvc engraved sooooo the car that had them on as standard was ?????

A Lotus Elise?

closer to home

if no vvc marking then its a??

a standard 1.8i is 125bhp

so a 1.6 is a 115bhp so that leaves ???????

im realy suprised this has got you stumped

Tf135 alloy inlet manifold.
A great upgrade to replace the banana shaped plastic one on an mpi or a TF1.6

David Aiketgate wrote: Tf135 alloy inlet manifold.
A great upgrade to replace the banana shaped plastic one on an mpi or a TF1.6

give that man a drink :yesnod:
i did wonder how long it would take lol but i did give a litle away

1.6 115
1.8 125
1.8tf 135
1.8 vvc 160

so david / mr forgetfull either can post next question as both got 50% each
first to post please

Oh Mr Forgetful deserves it! Besides I don't have a question...

so david sneked a quick reply and no question lol

I think David deserves it - His was the difficult one - mine was the easy bit. :yesnod:

Trouble is Mark I wouldn't know one end of an engine from the other so on those sort of questions I'm totally useless. (as am for other things as well I'm told). David - if you havn't got a question and to keep the quiz going - here is a quicky

In 1947 the Y type – although conceived before the war – was produced. What was unusual in the production process?

mr forgetfull i hate photos of old cars ans i dont know them lol
here is my answer

the Y Type got a brand-new chassis and did not use something already in production. Today the MG would have been grafted onto the monocoque structure of the humble Morris Ten Series 'M'. If you study the photo of a late post-war Series 'M' you can see the family likeness and it would not have been difficult to fit the flowing front and rear wings and the MG radiator grill. That really would have made history as the Y Type would not only have been the first production MG with independent front suspension and rack and pinion steering, it could have been the first monocoque (chassisless) MG as well.

The front suspension initially designed for the MG Ten was straight from the Morris Ten, a solid beam axle, leaf springs and complete with worm-and-peg steering box and built-in anti-roll bar from the pen of Gerald Palmer. The new TA/TB used similar components after all. But the body shell chosen for the MG Ten was that of the Morris Eight Series 'E', a much smaller shell than the Series 'M'. Perhaps because the MG was to have a heavy chassis the designer, Syn Enever, was trying to save weight by using a smaller, hence lighter, body. This meant the prototype in fact had the slightly narrower leaf-sprung front axle of the Series 'E' and not the 'M'. It had been thought that the, then new, Series 'M' would have independent Issigonis/Palmer front suspension, but the unit cost was too high even though Vauxhall had fitted a torsion-bar system to their Ten. The actual MG Ten that was meant to go into production in 1939 did indeed adopt the independent front suspension (ifs) that was once meant for the humble Series 'M'. Allied with rack and pinion steering the ifs Y Type had superb road holding and very accurate steering. So good was it that, along with the chassis, MG soon used the same system on the TD sports car (and the MGA, then MGB right up until the RV8).


taken from
http://www.mgccyregister.com/technical_information_section/buyer_information_guide/dna

Mark - your knowledge of cars and things mechanical is far beyond my simple mind.
Your very extensive reply is undoubtedly correct but the answer is very much simpler. :slapme:
It was to do, as stated, with the Production Process
It was not so much the car chassis and IFS but those, actually, and being somewhat rude, might have connotations and a link if one was a male chauvenistic pig?