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Spent Labour Day finishing up the teardown, disconnected the steering column, then removed the whole front and rear suspensions from the tub and hit them with a pressure washer to clean off the grime. Joe had to fabricate some mounting plates for the car since I didn't leave on the front bumper bracket, so we didn't get it on the rotisserie, but it's mounted as of today. I also removed a few more bits and pieces from the car after consulting the "restoration bible", aka "Original MGB", and making a careful list of all the pieces that are supposed to be painted black, not body colour. Joe can go full-bore on the bodywork now, and we expect it to be ready for paint in 60-90 days! At this point I don't have anything more to do on the car until its painted and its time to put the suspension back on. Just got an update, the bottom of the car doesn't look too bad, so that's good. The whole unibody gets sandblasted on the rotisserie this week. Also got some more news on the engine, turns out the machine shop got mixed up, my block is already 40 thou overbored and so I've decided to go with a new block (not very expensive), instead of flirting with disaster by going 60 thou over. The engine mods I'm having done (see below for the list) are carefully selected to increase mid-range power while preserving reliability and street drivability. From what I've read in the excellent "How to Power Tune the MGB". I'm expecting to get about 75 bhp at the wheels (15% gain from ~65 stock) after finishing tuning on a rolling road.