# Anyone own(ed) an MG? **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-own-ed-an-mg/196325 **Category:** PittSpeed Automotive **Created:** [March 24, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-own-ed-an-mg/196325 "2008-03-24T21:41:55Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 13
### Author: ![Mark\_Morris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@Mark\_Morris](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mark_Morris) #### Post date: [March 26, 2008, 7:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-own-ed-an-mg/196325/13 "2008-03-26T07:32:40Z")
> [@M & M Junkyard? retarded or just plain dumb](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/m-m-junkyard-retarded-or-just-plain-dumb/35644/9): > > to “hot rod” it, find a rover v8, which was actually found in buicks/oldsmobiles. all aluminium heads/block. the v8 actually weighs less than the 4 cylinder engine. mg did make a run of this engine in a roadster. Sailor got everything right except the V8 was offered in the GT’s, not the roadsters. It was simply called the MGB GT V8. Rover bought all the tooling for the 3.5 aluminum V8’s from Buick in the sixties and put them into a lot of their models. It’s the same V8 used in Land Rovers/ Range Rovers up until a couple of years ago. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-own-ed-an-mg/196325)._