Nice drive. Much more exciting to watch than those purpose built 200 mph racecars. What have you done to it in terms of mods? Nice to see an all Sprite/Midget race. That blue Sprite (559 LPJ) seemed a tough oponent.
Don’t know when I’ll be out again we were supposed to be out yesterday at Silverstone, April at Cadwell and a C1 24 hr race in May at Silverstone again Another video m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7c6hy6E0XhA.html
Brings back many memories. I grew up driving Austin Healeys and MGs. Your Midget sounds very similar to what mine did. Hail to Lucas. The man who invented darkness. LOL. Great video. Thank you. Wow, just finished watching the whole run. Damn. You gave that little MG about as much Hell as it would take!. Nice run buddy. I run an Audi TT now and although it's AWD it reminds me a lot of my MG days. Higher in technology and far more power but, You are in touch with the road. And looking at 60 years old. 220 kph is fast enough.
Back in my teen age years late 60s you could buy a midget for less than 1.00 dollars, over the years the engine got larger, 1500 cc,s but I never liked the shared exhaust port for cylinder 2 and 3. If they ever made a cross flow head with 8 ports, geez, plus roller rockers and roller lifers, etc and a 4 into one collector for the exhaust and dual webers, , back in my day that kind of tuning stuff wasnt around, unless you had a fat bank account, love it.
They did make some cross flows but you can’t use them in most of the racing Mine is now 1380 billet crank slipper pistons roller rockers etc not quite a lifetimes deveopement but nearly Thanks for comment
I have a 1977 MG Midget 1500 -can that be used to race or is a 1300 motor much better? I know the 1300 is the BMC engine while the 1500 was transplanted from the Triumph Spitfire in later big bumper years even in the USA. My car was first sold California. I had a 1979 and the emissions controls were worse on that one.
If you spend enough money the 1500 can be quicker but the A Series (1275) can be improved with less expense. Its basically the same as the Mini engine and therefore there are loads of upgrades First get a LCB exhaust manifold , then gasflow the head with bigger valves, then carb upgrade Chat to your local engine builder. I can recommend Peter Burgess @ Alfreton in UK he can advise but postage will be alot.
@@ianwhitt5344 I'm glad I kept my low 24k mile 1977 Midget 1500 -orange as well. I'm going to look into the LCB exhaust manifold and Peter Burgess. I assume you are using a Weber side draft conversion kit? I sold my '79 Midget but I had gotten into the engine just to fix some oil leaks so I'm pretty comfortable working on them. I understand that the trust washers are an issue with that 1500 engine. Really appreciate the response! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l1J28wSAPu8.html
I posted this question on another video about the spitfire engine thrust washers: I have and MG Midget with this same motor with 24k miles on it. It's a 1977 Midget 1500 which has a Spitfire motor in it from 1975 to the end of production. I'm wondering if this whole compromised engineering can be re-engineered with a roller bearing or oil fed plain bearing set up? I also have a 1997 Porsche Boxster that has an IMS bearing that is sealed and can fail due to some of the same reasons this thrust washer goes bad -old acidic oil and non changing of oil and letting the car sit. Instead of a sealed shaft bearing there are ceramic, roller bearing and oil pressure fed plain bearing retrofits. What can be done here? I know there is a whole culture of building Spitfire engines for racing but I haven't been had time to look into it yet.
@@DerekJason3000 - At 24K on a 1500, you're prolly about 1 K from total engine failure... valve springs breaking and dropping valves into the engine, rods knocking, etc...
Riviting to watch only just seen this video .And it brought back great memories of my two midgets .fun to drive and you do have to drive them hard and fast into and out of the bends great engine noise and you dont have to be doing 150mph to have great fun .Thanks for the video. Maybe do soom more thank-you😁
good effort but what went wrong at the end..and yes missing the grease in the hub was a bit iffy...and the rear brakes were glossed over,no adjusting no mention of handbrake..just saying!
looking at doing a Miata swap into a 73 Midget. Im concerned with how the rear diff will like that. What if any issues to they have and what should i look at doing about them? thank you for the help hope to see more on this channel in the future.
Now I know that a Miata is known as a MX5 in the UK there should be no issue with the diff. I’ve never had any diff problems but fit competition halfshafts and check the hub bearings. I run a double bearing hub which seems to help stop the leak
Really enjoyed that - nice driving! Your brown alert moment ~5min - my Midget is forever doing that in any fast sweeping turn, it's fine in the tighter, more precision cornering, but the axle does something strange when it loads up through fast sweeping turns!
Have sinc fitted a pan hard rod. Which has helped but that corner if you get the line wrong makes the backend go light I have posted a couple of other videos
Patrick Noble I used to find something similar, I think the rear is more easily unsettled by track imperfections at speed due to the higher unsprung mass. JE
