Re: Original +8 LWT?
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2016 8:45 pm
Well then,
my first active appearance in brake horsepower.net turned out not just as fully helpful but also as very pleasant experience. Thanks to all of you for your info & suggestions to be followed with further curiosity.
Balancing your inputs I seem to have guessed right: The LWT series of 19 cars may be an interesting topic in Morgan history, but may not really have a major relevance on the sporting plan, because for historical racing any other period +8 can be rebuilt and raced with the alu parts - right?
Short for Leigh on FIA papers: Obviously there are quite a lot of +8s in Britain and on the continent built in accordance with the "moss-box" retro homologation 004-R and raced in international events (e.g. Keith Ahlers at Spa 6h). The other +8 homologation 665-79 (5-speed, dry sump, discs all around etc.) was - as to my modest knowledge - done in 1979 by Bruce Stapelton in coop with the MMC for his Gr. 4 car (c.f. Silverstone / WMC 1980). It seems this homologation is less known and referred to - probably because the Plus 8 was quite a competitive car in her first years, but maybe not so much 10 years later with all those 934s, BMW M1s, 512 BBs etc. on the starting grids?
my first active appearance in brake horsepower.net turned out not just as fully helpful but also as very pleasant experience. Thanks to all of you for your info & suggestions to be followed with further curiosity.
Balancing your inputs I seem to have guessed right: The LWT series of 19 cars may be an interesting topic in Morgan history, but may not really have a major relevance on the sporting plan, because for historical racing any other period +8 can be rebuilt and raced with the alu parts - right?
Short for Leigh on FIA papers: Obviously there are quite a lot of +8s in Britain and on the continent built in accordance with the "moss-box" retro homologation 004-R and raced in international events (e.g. Keith Ahlers at Spa 6h). The other +8 homologation 665-79 (5-speed, dry sump, discs all around etc.) was - as to my modest knowledge - done in 1979 by Bruce Stapelton in coop with the MMC for his Gr. 4 car (c.f. Silverstone / WMC 1980). It seems this homologation is less known and referred to - probably because the Plus 8 was quite a competitive car in her first years, but maybe not so much 10 years later with all those 934s, BMW M1s, 512 BBs etc. on the starting grids?