Cosworth BDA power

John H Sheally the 2nd's highly successful BDA racer.

I'm sure I could find room under the Sport bonnet for one

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Now that IS an engine! The problem is that you'd constantly want to keep lifting the bonnet to admire it!

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Lovely engine but modern engines are streets ahead. I had a Escort RS1600 which had 112bhp and 20mpg if driven carefully which at the time was the bees knees, but compared to today's engines is quite poor. Sounded wonderful especially with the air filter removed.

The BDA is essentially half a Cosworth DFV, winner of countless F1 grands prix and variants that won Indycar and sprint and long distance sports car races around the world. Yes, I'd go got that: looks good and can produce prodigious amounts of power.

I looked at it and said " Now thats an engine " . Looked down the list and spotted a certain person got there first . But it just shows you can use it and keep it spotless. Hint Hint , Cough Cough.

And the sound of a BDA at full chat!

Definitely

Another collective shot of the Sheally BDA Morgan.

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Another BDA morgan was featured in MOG magazine about 18months ago... if someone has the back issue.. It was around the time of the Dutch mog event.... when it rained... and rained.. and rained.

I'll keep an eye open for that when I visit the local Morgan dealers as they keep the back copies.

Another nice "little" conversion that ISIS imports has been carrying out for +8 owners requiring a little more Oomph.

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A nicely prepared Lawrencetune :- JTL for you.

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A nice V8 engine bay JTL just for you to appreciate and of course anyone else.
From a Swedish member.

A very smart looking engine.

Yummy!

For anyone in their mid fifties and done abit of rallying its the biz webbers welsh forests like toast and jam

Oh yes.
I remember listening to them speeding past!

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Evoking a few memories here - he was known as wavy Davey North of the border but with respect.
A Scottish friend of mine used to navigate in the lower echelons and I went to Kielder and watched in the era.

AAMOI there was/is another BDA although this was based on the Cook/Askew car but with all new T45 space frame designed my me and built by Dave Kerby. The engine, built by me and Don Castle, gave just over 200 bhp at 12,000 on 130 Avgas on the John Wilcox dyno. Paintwork was a slight problem! We prepared a reversible transparent skin and took it to TT Race & Rally, who painted the Jordan F1 cars and the Silk Cut Jags. Difficult person to deal with was the proprietor!!! It wore the name 'Morgasm' on the front spoiler. Here it is at Beaulieu when the New Forest Centre organised the MOG.

PhotoBucket won't let me look at it without disabling addblocker. They can go bucket themselves as far as I'm concerned.

Yes this thread has been resurrected it goes back to 2014 when botophucket was free long before the tm img site was formed.

Interesting... I remember some years back when on eMog, JHS II posted pics and tales relative to his acqusition of and sporting success with the Twink engined space framed glass fibre Morgan look alike shell...

While thinking of variations on the Morgan theme, I remember Bill Button posting pics again on eMog of a re bodied Morgan with very 50`s Ferrari race car like appearance.... Interesting indeed.

Absolutely right Luddite

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The "I" in that post is NOT me by the way!!

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You can read a couple of Delage booklets on that page if you want.


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GREAT pics, that is the most un-Morgan Morgan I have ever seen... (-: I think I have a couple of low quality pics of pics of it somewhere too.. I think Bill Button may have taken some ..?

I have a couple of the John H Sheally II`s Modsports which may have been taken by JHS, though perhaps one of those was taken in the UK sitting outside a lock-up where it was kept and is in the colour shown on your avitar CAM..?

As best I can remember... there was story by John H Sheally II of his coast to coast trip of the US in his M3W printed in Miscellany some years back, and tales of repairs using a Harley piston or similar on the trip ? Think JHS made his living as a Photographer and remember seeing pics he took of his wonderful garage lay out and the old restored truck he used to trailer his Modsports car to events, apparently beating everything in sight and promoting the Morgan name in the US...?

Yes, JHS2 and I have kept in regular touch over the years...my wife says John is the politest man she ever met! That lock-up pic was taken outside Chas Smith's unit in Worcester when John first saw it. When John finished the trans-USA trip and had dipped the rear wheel in the Pacific he put a 45 slug through one of the barrels with a Colt he happened to have about his person!!!

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THANKS for posting those pics Colin, From that which I have read over the years JHSII, was a Morgan stalwart and very dedicated to the marque. Seem to remember his 45 was used more than once on that coast to coast trip..(-: An interesting chap indeed.

This Morgan based car was for sale at a dealer for $25,000 US. Dealer sent it to Auction and it fetched $75,000 US. Car ended back near Seattle. Herman Pol wrote the History for the Auction based on Notes that I sent Him at His request.

Thanks for the update Bill.