Great British Car Journeys

mwpe said:
They seemed to do quite well with a Rover V8.
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Definitely - a quick car in its day. The last Plus8 used the BMW 4.4 litre V8 which must be properly accelerative, even by today's standards. They've just done a final run of 50 (stupidly expensive and all sold) as apparently BMW have ceased production of the engine. The 'everyday' Morgan now uses the 3.6 litre V6 from the Ford Mustang.
 
If they do use that suspension system, (which they kept filming, for some weird reason, maybe to keep an eye on it?), with the big engines, then ignorance is bliss, lucky for us they just trundle about, and keep them on the drive to put polish on.
Does it show I'm not really a fan?
 
4 years ago on my first trip to the Alps, we stopped overnight at a Hotel in San Valentino in norther Italy and there were 3 Morgans staying there. When we got up in the morning, the Moggie people were just coming back in having already been for an early morning hoon up the Stelvio pass, they seemed to do quite well.
 
black fingernail said:
If they do use that suspension system, (which they kept filming, for some weird reason, maybe to keep an eye on it?), with the big engines, then ignorance is bliss, lucky for us they just trundle about, and keep them on the drive to put polish on.
Does it show I'm not really a fan?
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No, I'm not really a fan either. They do still employ the sliding pillar front suspension on all their cars, including the endurance racers that always seemed to be fairly competitive, so I guess it must be reasonably effective.
 
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I do know the sliding pillar system wears out quite badly, my mate Dave, (who repairs Traction engines) Literally makes bucketfulls of new pins and bushes and presses them into the uprights and reams them out. He replaces the cheap brassy bronze bushes with much better quality stuff, for Berrybrooks, the Morgan dealers.
 
Can't remember when was the last time I used a reamer on a bronze bush, but I can remember it was on an LDV van front axle King pin was and a horrible job. Reliant Robin has a similar set up.

Tony.
 
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