Is it really botomming out or is the exhaust scraping?
Bugeyes make a real *THUMP* when the rear bottoms. If is a scraping
noise it could be the exhaust hitting. It is easy to get a better fitting
exhaust made up!!!
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Samaroo <mrbugeye@hotmail.com>
To: ridleymj@bis.on.ca <ridleymj@bis.on.ca>; spridgets@autox.team.net
<spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, May 29, 1998 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: SPAX shocks
>Because the car bottoms out too easily. I have refilled the rear shocks
>with 30wt motor cycle fork oil, replaced the shocks with ones from a '71
>midget filled with 40wt fork oil. I drive hard and fast (well as fast as
>a bugeye will allow) and was just wondering if there was something I
>could do to improve the car. The ride height is fine and the car does
>not lean, so I don't think the springs are bad, but I will replace them
>with a set of HD rear springs and see if that helps, since the concensus
>is that some of the tube shock conversions are not worth it.
>Thanks.
>
>>Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 21:40:29 -0400
>>To: "Peter Samaroo" <mrbugeye@hotmail.com>,spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
>>From: Martyn Ridley <ridleymj@bis.on.ca>
>>Subject: Re: SPAX shocks
>>
>>Why?
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>>
>>At 08:58 AM 27-05-98 PDT, Peter Samaroo wrote:
>>>Fellow Spidgeteers,
>>> I was thinking of installing the rear SPAX shock conversion in my
>>>Bugeye while I was changing the rear springs. Has anyone done this and
>>>what do you think of them. MiniMania, Moss and VB all sell a kit, are
>>>they all the same kit or is one better than the other. At what angle
>>>do the shock lie and do the kits fit right in?
>>>Thanks,
>>>Peter Samaroo
>>>'59 Bugeye
>>>
>>>
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