1) Change your diff and gearbox oil to 10/30 (or whatever the Peugeot uses).
2) Lift the Sprite up so you are pushing at the same height.
3) Use the same toe-in angle as the Peugeot.
4) Pump your tyres to 50psi whilst in the garage - then let them down before
you drive off.
5) Build a sloping ramp in the garage to park the Sprite on.
6) Get an airlock between the garage and kitchen.
7) Use fans to reverse the air flow between garage and kitchen.
8) Learn to savour exhaust fumes as an essential ingredient in your meals
and lifestyle.
9) Take the Sprite out of gear?
10) Peugeots are for wimps .... Sprites are for Men (Dangerous ground)
11) Get an ACME elastic band.
Enjoy.....
Guy R Day
-----Original Message-----
From owner-spridgets at autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-spridgets@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Guy Weller
Sent: 10 May 2004 21:22
To: midgetsprite@yahoogroups.com; spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Rolling resistance.
I usually push my Sprite out of the garage each morning before I set off.
The garage has an interconnecting door to the kitchen so I try to minimise
the
exhaust fumes in there.
The point is this.
It is quite heavy to push. The brakes are not binding and the tyre
pressures
are at 24 / 22. It should weigh in at about 1520 Pounds (Sprite,1971)
By comparison, my daughter's Peugeot 106 has a kerb weight of 1675 Pounds
and
rolls very easily, you hardly have to lean on it.
So what views are there on minimising rolling resistance of a Spridget. It
must be a fruitfull way of improoving performance.
Guy
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