1977 MGB GT V8 
2024 rebuild and improvement project

 

 

 


The Wolfitt Racing 1977ish MGB GT V8 the moment it arrived at the workshop in July 2024 (Dave peeling stickers off)
A 300 hour improvement project is underway, all to be done within 4 weeks

 

Following the significant damage done to the TVR engine at Silverstone in June I was somewhat in a quandary about what to do given the estimated repairs to the Ford V8 would be 3 to 4 months at least. Given that I have now sold the Lotus Elan 26R, the only thing to do was buy another car as a temporary stop-gap while the Tuscan is hors de combat! It didn’t take long to establish that it had to be an already built car and ideally with a V8. An evening of browsing the internet (literally the day after the Tuscan failed) led me to a reasonably priced MGB GT V8 already in a CSCC Swinging Sixties style level of prep but with a pretty much standard Rover V8 engine.

I saw it on racecarsdirect on Sunday, looked at it Monday and it was already being stripped down in the workshop by late Tuesday afternoon. It basically has 80% of the bits needed but we gave it an estimate of at least 200 hours work and a few thousand quid to get it ready for the Triumph Competition races at Hockenheim at the end of July. Two weeks in and we were 75% of the way to it being in a condition where I am happy to race it. Also we have never had an MGB before so it was a steep learning curve for all of us.

Major work included:

Plus smaller (!) jobs

Thanks to Stack, Dave, Roger and Jared for piling in to help get the car ready.

 

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