Trevor:
I keep on wanting to get an E-Type, lust keeps on driving me.
Luckily I have a lady who keeps on reminding me what a pain they are to work
on.
The 3.8S will have to fill the need of a 4 seater E-Type for now.
The MGs will fill the need for the open sports car love.
I'm not sure where my Magnette fits in tho'
By the bye, there was a nice example of a modified ZA at the Wings
and Wheels event in Santa Monica. 5 main conversion with all synchro OD
trans. Disc front brakes. I had a great time chatting with the
owner/converter. He has had the car up over 100 mph and cruises all day
long at 70+ mph.
It turns out that the gear reduction drive replacement starter will
clear the frame rail, thus making the all synchro conversion easier. We
chatted about my idea of using a modified Marina starter. He liked the idea
as it would look more stock. The engine compartment of the car was kept
close to stock, including a K&N filter installed in the original filter
housing.
Fun, fun, fun.
TTFN
Kelvin.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trevor Boicey [mailto:tboicey@brit.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 11:35 PM
> To: Dodd, Kelvin
> Cc: Thomas James Pokrefke, III; mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Jag XKE
>
>
> "Dodd, Kelvin" wrote:
> > From my understanding, working on an E-Type is not fun, too
> many bits in too
> > little space.
>
> I can vouch for that.
>
> Just tonight, I removed the water pump from my 69
> roadster. On most cars, that isn't exciting enough
> to even mention to your wife at breakfast, but it
> took me basically one evening to get the rad off and
> one evening to get the water pump off. (and this is
> evening cutting some corners like moving the
> alternator out of the way with the wires attached
> rather than taking it right out of the car).
>
> There just isn't much room to work. It's not
> designed to be serviceable, and most parts require
> removing of a lot of other parts to get access. Even
> to get started you have to jack up the car and partally
> disassemble the bonnet springs just to tilt it
> enough to be able to stand where you can
> reach the parts.
>
> An old joke goes something like: "How to remove
> part xyz from your E-type. Disassemble entire car
> and spread it out on the lawn. Take part xyz and
> hide it. Assemble remaining parts to form an
> E-type with part xyz removed."
>
> Remember, this is a car that you have to
> drop the rear subframe to even SEE the rear
> brake calipers.
>
> But, in the midst of all this negativity, all
> this is forgotten when you are at the wheel.
>
> --
> Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
> Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
> ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
> "Is it possible for us to pop a wheelie?" - Ajax
>
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