- 1. TVR 2500 For Sale (NC) (score: 1)
- Author: Wily1@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 13:20:13 -0500
- Posted for a friend w/o net access: FOR SALE: TVR2500 Project Car 1 owner 40K original miles Recently rebuilt engine/tranny/chassis Needs Paint, Interior Located, as far as I know, somewhere in North
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg01057.html (6,670 bytes)
- 2. Re: frozen SUs (score: 1)
- Author: Wily1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 09:52:20 -0500
- and sort **snip** The gentleman who sold me my first set of SUs (w/Sprite attached, OC) must have told me 9 times to make sure I cleaned the daspots and pistons w/Brakleen every time I had the chance
- /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00004.html (7,162 bytes)
- 3. Rendevous (Was: Cars in movies) (score: 1)
- Author: Wily1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 1994 14:46:36 -0500
- Stan Fickes: > If you're into twisted driving adventures, this is a fun one. Some clown takes a Ferrari past several Paris landmarks in the gray light of dawn, dodging cops and sleepy commuters. The
- /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00268.html (7,283 bytes)
- 4. Accusumps (was Re: Oil pressure drops on turns) (score: 1)
- Author: Wily1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 10:02:50 -0500
- Accusumps are still around. They come in several flavors (size, w/press. gauge, w/manual valve, w/solenoid, etc.) and are sold by the likes of Summit, Racer Wholesale and Truelove (?). They aren't e
- /html/british-cars/1994-11/msg00089.html (7,397 bytes)
- 5. Re: Re: TR Tyre Pressure (score: 1)
- Author: Wily1@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 94 09:56:02 EDT
- And Jerry Kaidor replied: Just for the sake of a gentlemanly counterpoint, a gross simplification of the procedure for setting tire pressure in Fred Puhn's book "How to Make Your Car Handle" is to i
- /html/british-cars/1994-10/msg00166.html (8,499 bytes)
- 6. Spridget Front Suspension Query (score: 1)
- Author: Wily1@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 07 Oct 94 09:01:30 EDT
- Anyone have a clever way to remove the small pin which locates the bottom of the kingpin against the lower/outer fulcrum pin? I have a pair which are resisting hammer, heat and promises of a happy r
- /html/british-cars/1994-10/msg00765.html (6,846 bytes)
- 7. TR-6 For Sale (NC) (score: 1)
- Author: Wily1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 09:58:28 -0400
- Hi folks: A guy who works near me is buying a house -- buy his car before I scrounge up the money... '74 TR-6 Mimosa Yellow 80kmil Daily driven OD works New top, tires, brakes, exhaust Incl. new wind
- /html/british-cars/1994-10/msg01395.html (6,602 bytes)
- 8. Subject: Fifties US Automobilaria (score: 1)
- Author: Wily1@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 94 09:25:18 EDT
- I'd hardly qualify as 'geezer' in this crowd; rug rat is more like it, but here's a stab. We crumb-busters have all sorts of bad habits, and one of mine is leafing through Hot Rod magazine. Based on
- /html/british-cars/1994-09/msg00435.html (8,130 bytes)
- 9. Subject: KN filters (score: 1)
- Author: Wily1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 94 11:54:36 EDT
- Marcus asks: K&N also makes filter cleaner and filter oil. Should be available from the same folks who sell the filters (VB, Seven, WC, Summit, Racer Wholesale, AP, etc). ~$15 should set you up for l
- /html/british-cars/1994-09/msg00558.html (6,627 bytes)
- 10. Re: Re: TR Tyre Pressure (score: 1)
- Author: Wily1@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 94 09:56:02 EDT
- And Jerry Kaidor replied: Just for the sake of a gentlemanly counterpoint, a gross simplification of the procedure for setting tire pressure in Fred Puhn's book "How to Make Your Car Handle" is to i
- /html/british-cars/1994-08/msg00431.html (8,499 bytes)
- 11. Midget Clutch Master Cylinders (score: 1)
- Author: Wily1@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 06 Jul 94 16:45:34 EDT
- My last good clutch master cylinder gave up the ghost about a month ago, so I went looking for replacements. The price range ran about $65-$70 US for a new one for my '72 Midget, so I tried the $8 r
- /html/british-cars/1994-07/msg00105.html (8,028 bytes)
- 12. LBC stars in commercial (score: 1)
- Author: Wily1@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 94 18:49:02 EDT
- Hello all, While watching World Cup coverage over the weekend (and marveling at the continuous play miracle) one of the few commercials (halftime?) caught my eye. A pristine pale yellow Sprite, caugh
- /html/british-cars/1994-07/msg00262.html (6,503 bytes)
- 13. Re: MG wheel sizes, types (score: 1)
- Author: wily1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 17:15:43 EST
- Sounds kinda like 13x5 Vega wheels. (My Humblest Apologies if y ou'd already eliminated this possibility) Ernest "suddenly,xxx 30F days are a heat wave" Davis wily1@aol.com
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00410.html (6,933 bytes)
- 14. c'mon, spring (score: 1)
- Author: wily1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 13:58:33 EST
- I really admire those who live where it gets really cold - it made it down to 3F here, and that's too cold for me. The weather here in NC finally straightened out (65-70F) over the weekend, so I doff
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00593.html (8,776 bytes)
- 15. removing (stuck) lever shocks, bugeye (score: 1)
- Author: wily1@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 93 10:49:34 EST
- Greetings all: A friend of mine is tracing out suspension problems in his bugeye sprite, and has run into the following problem pulling a shock off his parts car -- two of the bolts that hold the sho
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00467.html (7,190 bytes)
- 16. re: Max RPM (score: 1)
- Author: wily1@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 10:08:34 EST
- without self destructing... is: Question for TITK WRT A-Series Spridgets: What RPM limits do you use? Is this a likely explanation for broken piston rings in my 1098 crank/1275 block auto-xer? Accord
- /html/british-cars/1993-11/msg00181.html (8,614 bytes)
- 17. Block Painting, RPMs (score: 1)
- Author: wily1@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 93 14:45:31 EST
- Just one more guess on this topic -it's not an uncommon trick among American V-8 performance builders to paint the inside of the block to fix casting sand in the block, as opposed to the oil, bearing
- /html/british-cars/1993-11/msg00248.html (7,558 bytes)
- 18. A-Series Gadget, Midget Tonneau For Sale (score: 1)
- Author: wily1@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 93 14:30:09 EST
- I just picked up a B(P)L single SU intake with attached exhaust manifold from a friend, and between the ratty old HS4 and the manifold is a carb spacer with a coiled wire electric heating element ar
- /html/british-cars/1993-11/msg00353.html (7,289 bytes)
- 19. Forged Piston Hypothesis (score: 1)
- Author: wily1@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 08 Oct 93 18:44:11 EDT
- Scott sez: If my memories of materials class are not faulty, forgings have higher coefficients of thermal expansion than castings for two reasons: - forged aluminum is denser than aluminum cast at at
- /html/british-cars/1993-10/msg00159.html (7,718 bytes)
- 20. Midget Wheels (score: 1)
- Author: wily1@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 08 Sep 93 13:43:48 EDT
- Dean Zywicki asked about aftermarket wheels for Spridgets... The Spridget shares its bolt pattern with (ugh) Vegas and Monzas/Skyhawks of decades past. As I remember, it is a 4 hole on 4" circle (sho
- /html/british-cars/1993-09/msg00117.html (8,486 bytes)
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