Hey Dan!
Cool your jets,man. He's just expressing his opinions and experiences.
Now who's on a high horse? Honestly-I read this response of yours and I
thought you were mean and condensending-some kinder gentler souls might be a
little leary of posting for fear of provoking one of your responses.
Blast me now-I've got on my flame retardent suit.
Laura G. and Nigel
-"If you don't have anything nice to say..."
-----Original Message-----
From: DANMAS@aol.com <DANMAS@aol.com>
To: spitdrvr@camalott.com <spitdrvr@camalott.com>
Cc: spitfires@Autox.Team.Net <spitfires@Autox.Team.Net>
Date: Thursday, November 26, 1998 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: Rotary Spitfire
>In a message dated 98-11-26 16:04:40 EST, spitdrvr@camalott.com writes:
>
>N.A.,
>
>Interesting comments. Unrelated to the discussion at hand, but interesting.
>
>> I guess Im a purist but my Spit does just fine in my book.
>
>But I'm not reading from your book. The Spitfire is a nice little car, no
>doubt about that, but in my book, it could use a little improvement.
>
>> Yes, Ive done
>> allot to make the engine pur but it's still a British Powerplant.
>
>So the rotary is out, but the Rover V8 would be OK? It's a British
powerplant.
>Or does it have to be a British 'design' as well? In that case, I guess
the
>Stag engine would be OK?
>
>> I sit and
>> read about all of you changing your alternators and such to get away
from
>> the Lucas problems, wanting more reliability and all of this type stuff.
>
>In my articles on swapping the Lucas alternators, no mention is made at all
>about reliability. I say the three problems with the original Lucas units
are
>low power, high cost, and unavailability on short notice. I agree, there is
no
>inherent problem with Lucas alternators. They are low powered, cost a lot,
and
>if you need one 'right now', you are out of luck. For about 1/4 the price,
I
>can have a GM unit with up to twice the power, and, if it ever fails, I
can,
>in most any city in the US, have the old one out and the new one installed
in
>about an hour.
>
>> I have never been stranded on the side of the road with my Spit....
>
>That's a first! I've heard all sorts of reasons for owning a Spit, but
>reliabilty and dependability are usualy not the reasons given. I agree with
>you, though, there is no reason a Spitfire, or any British car, can't be
just
>as reliable as any other car, as long as they are properly maintained.
>
>> I have
>> been sitting on the side of the road with my Ford and Honda and Chrysler
>and
>> GMC...... Oh yea, my MAZDA left me on the side of the road between
Odessa
>> Texas and El Paso once to.....
>
>In the fourty plus years I've been driving, I've owned a wide range of
cars -
>American, British, German, Swedish, and Japanese - and I have been stranded
>only once. With your record, I would suggest you need to improve your
>maintenance habits. Anyone with that kind of record either isn't keeping up
>with the basic maintenance routines, or they are buying junk yard refugees.
>Under those same conditions, a Spitfire won't fare any better.
>
>Dan Masters,
>Alcoa, TN
>
>'71 TR6---------3000mile/year driver, fully restored
>'71 TR6---------undergoing full restoration and Ford 5.0 V8 insertion -
see:
> http://www.sky.net/~boballen/mg/Masters/index.html
>'74 MGBGT---3000mile/year driver, original condition - slated for a V8 soon
>'68 MGBGT---organ donor for the '74
>
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