Forget it. Save the Spit in it's majestic state. I would find some way,
come hell or high water, to keep it as it should be...even if I have to
learn how to most of the work myself.
Vic Whitmore
76 Spitfire
Thornhill, Ontario
Spencer Fleury wrote:
>
> 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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