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MG MG Y Type - what year my engine

I have a 52 TD with a "Y" engine Number XPAG-SC 16567. I am told that the only difference between a TD engine and a SC engine is 1 carb rather than 2. What I would like to know is the probable year of engine number 16567.
Any information?
Thanks
j c rathbone

XPAG 1657 would probably have been fitted to a YA in the range of 6700 - 6750. These cars would have been delivered in the second quarter of 1951. The engines were not fitted consecutively, so how long it may have been on the shelf, who knows?

I hope that this is of help.
David Pelham

David is spot on: my car (Y6814) was originally delivered with engine XPAG/SC16696. It was built in April 1951, and registered in May. The Lucas datestamps on the dynamo and control box show March 1951, so your engine was probably made that month or a little earlier: the correlation between engine and chassis numbers is not neatly linear as far as I have seen from John Lawson's records.
Tim Griggs

The MG ledger records for the YA, which is where your engine came from in mid-1951, no longer exist. The SC stands for single carb. The YA had the SC2 engine fitted some time before the YB arrived, that is the 'new' engine overlapped the model update.

We have the ledger records for the last few YA, nearly all the YB, and a few YT.

Neil.
Neil Cairns

Nearly forgot, Paul Barrow will be publishing the records on the Y type web-site soon. They are those of John Lawsons news letter, put onto a PC file by me!

Neil.
Neil Cairns

The SC engines had a different camshaft and different valve timing than the TC/TD.
Scott Barrow

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