Good on you, James!
At last, someone to defend the honour of the 1493 Spitfire engine-I always
tell people-a lot of other things might go wrong with these cars-but the
only way to kill the engine is to shoot it with a silver bullet!
It's a really great little engine!
Laura G. and Nigel
----- Original Message -----
From: James Carpenter <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
To: SPITFIRES <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: What is joy
>
> Aviators,
>
> Two things,
>
> First I won't here a word said againsed the 1493 Spitfire engin, it's the
> best one of the lot. Although the MkIII had 4 more bhp it also had 2 more
> seconds on the 0-60. The stock UK 1500 it in my opinion the best for
> tuning because of the longer stroke. Granted it eats big ends like they
> were going out of fasion, but how hard are they to chainge. It does how
> ever need the 'J' type, and no 1500 should have been made with out it.
> Especialy good is the feeling when your overtaking, you have 68 in 3rd,
and
> you flick the over drive switch and get a good shove in the back, as you
> cary on up to 80. It also needs an oil cooler, with thermostat. I like
the
> fact I can slowly count the seconds, and by the time I have got to 12 I'm
> doing 60.
>
> As for the high performace exhausts, arround here all the boy races drive
> there Nova's or XR2s with cherry bomb silencers on, and to be frank some
> spitfires sound the same with that on. I like the high performance
systems,
> which dont give too much roar, but a real low resonance which you feel in
> the chest.
>
> The best thing is, you can work on your suntan in a traffic jam. Others
> mabe bakeing, or beeing dryed out by the air conditioning, but your
getting
> a Tan (or burnt:-)
>
> Leads me to one question, where does the noise come from in your Spitfire,
> when I slowly rev the engin to 4500 rpm, no load I just get the normal
> wizzzy sound. But foot down and the engin it's self seems to roar,
> induction noise I think but it's not nice, so I want rid of it!
>
>
> James
>
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