on 9/26/02 8:58 PM, Jacques Le Clainche at jleclainche@cox.net wrote:
With one race left in the season I decided to leave my 3.9 free. And
hopefully I'll put in a Phantom Grip over the winter.
With the wife down in Santa Fe for the weekend, I had time to install the
header. I welded up up a two inch strait pipe to the back of the car.
Afterwards I did discover a small leak at the collector. I can't get to it
with the welder unless I drop the whole exhaust system again, so I'll
probably hit it with some epoxy. I also did a little port matching on the
intake manifold and finally cut off the rear bump stops at the axle housing.
I also discovered that a MGB front brake hose is a perfect Midget rear hose.
Only had time to take the car for a one mile canyon run on street tires, but
there was a subjective increase in H.P.(although the exhaust is screaming
"arrest me" now.)
--
Jay Shaffer
shaf@zenten.com
http://zenten.com/bebopracing/
'76 MG Midget
SCCA ITC #66
"This ain't no beauty contest"
> Spridgeteers,
>
> OK, Tom Speed convinced me to try after all... I have a spare diff I'll use
> for that. By the way, I examined the plates closely and saw the springs
> inside.
>
> Jacques Le Clainche
>
> Tom Speed wrote:
>
> Spridget Owners:
> In 1989 I stopped racing my F Production Midget after winning the SE
> Division for three years in a row. I started racing a Nissan Pulsar in GT4.
> The Pulsar was front wheel drive. At the time, my only choice was to run it
> with an open differential or a welded differential. No one made a LSD. The
> open differential caused tons of wheel spin so I welded it as my only
> option. I raced that way for three years. The steering effort to drive a
> 200hp FWD car with a welded diff was enormous. After a 30 minute race, my
> forearms burned for hours! I was forced to consider having Quaiffe build a
> one off LSD for my car. They quoted $5,400.00 and I was ready to spend that
> or give up my program. About this time I saw an ad for custom LSDs by a
> company called CRE in Massachusetts. I called them and they said "Sure, we
> can do that" and quoted me $350 per differential. I sent one to them and it
> came back with a device similar to what Bill Perry is selling. I installed
> it in my Pulsar and it was like I had power steering! I ran those in my FWD
> Pulsar for 6 years without any further problem. They did not require further
> adjustment or service. They just work. The fact that it looks simple has
> nothing to do with the time and effort spent designing the multiple little
> springs inside those plates. I was first in line to buy two...one for our
> 3.9 and one for our 4.22
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