Just a stray thought; maybe you get a GT6 in good condition; spend the time
and $$$ on making it run faster...assuming you want to go faster.
Terrence Banbury
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> From: David A Templeton[SMTP:davidt@opentext.com]
> Reply To: David A Templeton
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 1:55 PM
> To: AH1962SP@aol.com; Dean.Dashwood@enron.com;
> Jjcousins@ra.rockwell.com; spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Engine Conversion
>
>
> No, you want the all the extra the GT6 offered, better brakes different
> mount points for the rad etc. It is a lot easier to put the sit tub on
> the
> GT6 frame.
>
> Mine is a '73 GT6 engine, O/D transmission, brakes and suspension in a '73
> Mark IV frame, with a '74 spitfire tub. There is still stuff left over
> from
> the mkIV frame which gets in the way.
>
> regards
>
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <AH1962SP@aol.com>
> To: <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>; <Jjcousins@ra.rockwell.com>;
> <spitfires@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 1:47 PM
> Subject: Re: Engine Conversion
>
>
> >
> > In a message dated 4/3/00 1:41:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > Dean.Dashwood@enron.com writes:
> >
> > << Simply find a GT6 in the
> > salvage yard, with good engine/transmision, but rusty bodywork, and
> transfer
> > your Spitfire bodywork/interior onto it. >>
> >
> > don't you mean put the motor and trans into the spit??
> >
> > Bruce Cincinnati
> >
> > 1959 spriteMKl
> > 1962spriteMKll
> > 1968 spriteMKlV
> > 1966 triumph spitfireMKll
>
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