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MG Midget and Sprite Technical - rolling road tune in east midlands

Hi all ,

ive just done away with the stock air filters on my midget 1500 and fitted a pair of K&N filters .
Im now looking for somewhere with a rolling road in the east midlands where i can get my carbs properly tuned to make sure im getting the best out of the new filters and not running too lean .
Does anybody know or can suggest anywhere ?

thanks
D Stratton

Peter Burgess is in Derbyshire isn't he? I think highly recommended by everyone.

No personal experience of his service but I'm sure someone will be along in a mo with confirmation.

Malcolm
M Le Chevalier

being a southerner I don't really know what East Midlands covers, but how about Pete Burgess in Alfreton or Pete Baldwin in Cambridge?
David Smith

Edit: too slow to add on to my previous post but peter burgess is also a member of this forum I think. Sure he will be along at some point!
M Le Chevalier

Thanks guys . Alfreton is faily close to me so i think i'll have to contact Pete Burgess
D Stratton

you have probably found his website already, if not...

http://www.peter-burgess.com/

Its not that sophisticated, which is great! shows he gives more of a crap about engines and his reputation is good enough to get him business and he doesn't need to waste time on a snazzy site! :-)

love his bit about the ZR, might do the same to my Rover 25!

Malcolm
M Le Chevalier

I've just booked in so don't knick my spot please

You may well already know this you really want your whole car properly and fully serviced reasonably recently before taking it on the rollers if you want to get the best from it

and have a reasonable amount of petrol in your tank as you don't want to run out a few miles after on even on the rollers

nor is it a good time to find the weakness in a cooling hose

I'm not trying to put you off just getting the best out of it for you, your car and Peter

having said all that I bet something happens to mine, always does - last time the car went in a garage they found one of the NOS plugs I'd put in two weeks before had a crack - was it there when I put the plug in, who know with my eyesight
Nigel Atkins

Hiya

Malcolm

I can't afford to pay for a snazzy site, I do it 'all by my own'. The main reason I write my own webstuff is so I am in full control and can change, add to etc etc at any time without messing about waiting for a n other firm to do it, the site also contains exactly what I want it to. Some folk appreciate the simplicity, I tend to try and do sites in the same way a Magazine would present the info. If all sites were snazzy they would all look the same, then mine would stand out as the 'post snazzy, primitive, naive approach' :)

I thought we were in the North of England as the North starts at Watford Gap?

Nigel, I am off to do me longbow archery today....will try and avoid being 'arrowed' til after we have dynoed your midget :) PS I hope you are on NGKs?

Peter
P Burgess

Sorry Peter, I wasn't out to offend, my apologies if I did. I'm even more impressed you do the site yourself!

I want to keep on the right side of you incase I need your help with my 1500 in the future! :-)

cheers,
Malcolm
M Le Chevalier

Loving the flugelhorn! I was looking for that for ages, as I've done a similar thing on my K-midget, not quite as long though!
Rob Armstrong

Peter do not leave your house again until you've suffered me and my Midget

When I used to have crossbows the longbows didn't want me using their targets for some reason and I'd dropped to a 100lb pull - had one with 175lb and i only weighed 150lb (then!)

I'm on NGKs now as the NOS Champion RN9YC insulator cracked

I only got the Champion again as the first lot I got were fixed fixed caps

You'll probably need/want to change those plugs as they'll well sooted up by now

Take great care of yourself Peter as the previous chap I went to is now dead

Mind you that was about 15 years ago - Trevor Shure, my memory is of him with either a small screwdriver or fag, or both, whilst leaning over the carbs as the engine is running - but the last bit might be false memory(?) - a real nice guy tho'
Nigel Atkins

Hi Malcolm, no offence taken, it read like you approved the site to me.

Well Nigel,

I survived the archery. I had to sort some stuff out with two fire engines extinguishing a burning hay bale....don't you just love the little s*ds...kids setting fire that is, not firemen :) The fire engines did not have the code to the barrier(so they could leave) at the entrance to the posh grounds where we run around doing out Robin Hood thing. I promise I got nowhere near the flames.

I gave up smoking January 1996 (who is counting?)so hopefully the big C won't strike me down before your visit. I drive around in a Pinin Shogun with chassis so hopefully should survive a tap if involved in an RTA.

Do you think I should pass on my wingwalking routine for a few weeks, though Sandra says she will fly carefully even with the blindfold?


Peter
P Burgess

Peter please don't joke, bad luck follows me and falls on others - or so they tell me when they cancel or do a poor job - not meaning you, oh no, don't get upset with me

I don't even want you walking on concrete pavements

I think Trevor went with cancer so stop counting and enjoy the greater sense of taste and smell you gained, not always good advantage I know
Nigel Atkins

Nigel, I survived being washed out to see by a giant wave when I was two...a woman dragged me out while my Dad saved my sister, we were playing in the sand by the sea (in Aden at monsoon time of year). I also came through polio ok. On holiday in Kenya when I was 8, the car we were in skidded in mud and started to go over a 300 foot drop only to be held back by some broken bamboo sticking into left hand rear wheel. We got towed out by two Hungarian scientists in a landrover, they were the last vehicle allowed into game park cos the weather had turned so bad! I was diagnosed with a rare cancer of the jaw at 11...had loads of ops and finally given all clear when I was 21! I am not ready to go just yet and Sandra says her Boss the big JC must have saved me for a reason! She says he wants me for a sumbeam even though I specialise in MGs :)

Take care and see you when I do.

Peter
P Burgess

LOL - you do realise that you're tempting fate here - and that what will probably actually happen is that Nigel's car will breakdown (due to excessive 36 000 mile servicing) and it will not be identifiable in the Handbook that he keeps quoting from - and that, as the tyre pressues are a tad soft (IMO anyway!), then, they will shred into pieces, ruining the entire suspension and run into one of those nasty horrid rubber bumper cars, which will roll over, and cause a hideous RTA resulting in a pile up - carnage - lots of blood, guts and gore - and, even worse, a huge traffic jam on the M6 .......!!!!!!!!!!
rachmacb

Peter perhaps you were always destined to be my car saviour

cheers, see you

rach,
- I don't carry the Handbook in the car its far too valuable for that

I have been thinking about possibly, maybe, experimenting with another couple of pounds in the the tyres - see I am open minded

but I'm sure this will cause bits to fall off the car as it's on the rollers and cause damage to the car and quite probably Peter
Nigel Atkins

I reckon I had better get suited up with safety clothing and end up looking like Michelins Bibendum man to be on the safe side :) Maybe I had better do a double booking incase Nigels car doesnt make it :(

Have faith Nigel and we can have a few coffees while we dyno your car.

Peter
P Burgess

what you expect it to be done in one session !!!

after previous time I hope so too

but . . .

my wife will be with me so at least I will be on best behaviour

see you then
Nigel Atkins

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