Hello lists:
Some of you may remember my old thread about ring jobs and oil leaking
out of interesting places in my engine (like the dipstick tube, for
example).
Well, fixing it is apparently going to exceed both my present
mechanical and fiscal capacities (someone told me once that a secret
to happiness is knowing your limitations - of course, he was much
richer and much smarter than I am, so it was easy for him to say). My
father has suggested removing the engine that's in there now and
replacing it with a 1-liter motorcycle engine - either a Honda or a
Kawasaki, he says. He claims it would be significantly cheaper than
fixing what I have now, and it would (he says) be sufficiently
powerful for the Spit.
Have any of you ever heard of this being done before? Is it one of
those flashes of brilliance my father occasionally displays, another
shred of evidence that the time has come for him to be forcibly placed
in a home, or something in between?
TIA
Spencer Fleury
'77 Spitfire 1500
"Not so much a Spitfire as a Drool-Oil . . . "
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