KGC Engineering

04/11/2024

And with the Mighty Mini off to the paint shop and a future rebuild elsewhere, its finally time after 13 years to close the doors and wrap up the business.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me and my business over the last 13 years, theres been lots of positive moments, but also as expected a number of negative ones too. In the end, i just lost the enthusiasm to keep on going, and with the constant rising costs for parts etc it became a burden im welcome to be released from.

It's now time for me to focus on myself, and my own projects

Thanks

23/08/2024

Today the Mini has been turned to allow easier access for final fettling of the RH door and for a number of finishing off jobs to be done. Its been a very long restoration rebuild for this mini. Its certainly now approaching the end of this huge phase which will see it more or less ready for paint at long last.

18/07/2024

This coming weekend I'll be at the Middlewich Classic Car and Bike show with a wide range of 2nd hand spares suitable for a variety of classic and vintage cars.

I wont be here to discuss restoration projects as this part of the business is winding down after i have finished my current projects.

For further details on the show visit:

classic car show events by date of event.

27/03/2024

IT PASSED!

Today the MGBGT passed its first MOT in 9 years with flying colours, this more or less brings to an end a 7 year long overhaul, with only a couple of minor running adjustments to tweek before handing back to her owner in the next few weeks.

This means that the final project to complete the "Mighty Mini" can of course get started once more, to get it ready for painting hopefully in the summer, and of course reassembly after that.

This week also marks 3 long years since leaving the old workshop, things havent always gone to plan, sadly projects have taken far longer than expected due to space and other constraints however things are in a much better position than they were 3 years ago, so thats a bonus.

I'm still not intending on taking on any further work for the forseable.

15/02/2024

At long last its done - the 1967 MGB-GT is finally finished and complete once more, all that remains is a good clean, an MOT to check it over plus any remedial work following testing.

Its been a very long job thats taken a year - 18 months longer than expected. It has tried and pushed my paitence several times through out its restoration. I am very pleased and grateful to be able to hand it over back to its owner in the next few weeks, ready to enjoy in the summer.

19/12/2023

Well after a number of years and more recently seemingly endless weeks of troubleshooting the 1967 MGBGT is finally up and running, yes it needs tuning and adjusting, but its finally running, bringing its completion ever closer in the new year.

16/11/2023

Been doing some proper old school engineering today as ive been lapping the valves in the cylinder head for the MGBGT, while it was refitted to the engine only a few months ago, a lack of self foresight was to check the valves, upon coming to fire the old girl up, it was found to have extreemly low compression, and would not fire, after a number of other typical tests there was no choice but to pull the head and see whats going on.

As can be seen in the second pic the exhaust valve seat has just been lapped and is nice and clean, the inlet as you can see has a layer of thin rust on it, this is the likely cause of the issue. So its a case of lap them all and give it a good clean all over and fingers crossed we get good compression this time round

(yes i know the head surface needs a clean up too)

07/10/2023

The seemingly never ending task of getting the MG BGT finished is finally getting near completion, with fewer and fewer jobs to do on the steady march to the finish line.

22/08/2023

Three Years ago I fired up and drove the Herald for its first test drive, the first time it had moved under its own power in around 15 years!

a short video of one of our projects thats nearing completion, the Triumph Herald 13/60. its been with us for a while for finishing off, theres a few jobs on...