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Everyone has an opinion on the poor old MGC, most of them wrong. Yes, it was essentially the product of installing a truck engine into the MGB and yes, the famous anecdote of the launch cars having hopelessly incorrect tyre pressures resulted in the car gaining a reputation for understeer which it never managed to shake off – but with the right tweaks, the MGC can be turned into a very capable alternative to the V8. As Simon Wilkinson at MGC specialist Colne Classics points out, improving the car is more a question of making a package of well-considered detail changes rather than any single dramatic alteration. One of the nicest mods which can be made is the power steering conversion which Simon reckons benefits the C more than anything else simply because of the weight of the straight-six Austin engine. A bolt-on kit taking power from a twin pulley fitted to the alternator, it also provides a usefully tighter turning circle, down from 34 feet to 29 feet. With the steering sorted, uprated suspension bushes also make a big difference to the MGC, while modern dampers will improve the handling noticeably, with Simon suggesting Gaz units. Unlike its MGB cousin, the MGC used a torsion bar front suspension and the uprated torsion bars supplied by MG Motorsport are also a popular mod. Parabolic rear springs are available for the rear, but caution is advised when using them with an uprated engine, as they tend to wind up under hard launches and don’t last long.
PRODUCED: 1967-1969
Read the full article in the August 2011 issue of Classic Car Mart - available to buy here. |
Simple mods turn the six-pot MG into the car it should always have been
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