Hi!
I guess I should at least say hello properly. I joined up several years ago and have browsed the forum for a good while. I have not made any posts because my car isnt really what most folk would call a hot rod. I've learnt a good deal from looking in and am somewhat in awe of the cars I see on here.

When I first joined my little MGB V8 was pretty much stock and I was dabbling with runs at Santapod and I was happy with getting low 16's on the strip. My car is a product of British Leyland and I got poo pooed from another hot rod forum even after I tricked her out a bit and got her looking quite cool in my eye's. Side pipes, Hilborn scoop and some sick cosmic 1970's slot mags.

I have to admit this put me off a bit. But I stuck in there and spent the last 6 years experimenting with nitrous in various forms. I have been modifying the car year on year and now I think that despite the fact its British its my own idea of the hot rod I always wanted from when I was a kid. And it fits in a single garage

I always loved the look of an MGB GT. And I loved the old skool American HotRod look. And part of my goal was to keep the Rover V8 engine in the car, albeit a bit tweaked.

So I now have an MGB GT with a Rover 4.6 V8 + TH350 + GMC 4/71 + NOS plate system + Moser shafts and a few other bits bolted on or made at home.

I took her out at the Retro Show at Santapod this year and ran 10.4 three times back to back. So I now at last have a 10 second car. This has spurred me on since July to build a fresh engine and make a new home brew direct port nitrous injection system to suppliment the blower.

I'm hoping to have the car on the dyno mid feb next year and be back out at the Retro Show to see if I can better the 10.4's in an attempt to run a 9 second pass.

The engine is a stock 4.6 with 90,000 miles on it, but the block has seen better days due to a load of head gasket failures. I have a new block and new cometic head gaskets as well as new forged pistons. So I'm happy that even if none of my new tweaks improves anything I will still be able to run low 10's on the 1/4 mile.

When I have the engine built I'll start on the rear suspension.
I made up some slapper bars but even though I got them wound up tight I still couldnt keep the front wheels on the ground when testing the new blower setup last July?

I will be fitting new rear uprated springs and dampers for 2012.

Here are some vids of the car from this years test runs.

Regards and a merry Christmas to all on the forum.
Perry

Nitrous BGT V8 335bhp at Santa Pod July 2011 (Jason Stephenson) - YouTube

Perry and Jason testing new half shafts 2 - YouTube