MGB Parts are in!

I got the phone call from the local MGB parts place. My order had come in! All the bearings, washers and gaskets to put the MGB motor back together. All I needed now was a new head and camshaft.

On a weekend at home I went through all the boxes of stuff that my brother in law had given me with the car and my luck was holding. In one box was a used camshaft and complete head. They both looked like they were in pretty good shape but was hard to tell with all of the caked on gunk. I packed the parts in a cardboard box along with assorted other goodies and headed back to Edmonton for school.

My friend and I took the head and camshaft into the local machine shop that the British car shop guy had recommended. They set about cleaning both heads and cams, the original parts and the ones I had brought back from home.

I got a call from the machine shop to let me know that I was in luck, one of the heads was good, and both camshafts could be used. I just told them to use the best cam, they were going to machine the lobes to provide better performance as well.

When I went to the machine shop a few days later they had told me that they had chromed the head for me. I was shocked, being a traditionalist, I couldn't believe my eyes. "Mexican Chrome" the shop guy informed me, simply put, silver paint. We had a good chuckle about that one, and still laugh about it to this day.

All the parts were in, the head and cam were machined, it was time for reassembly!