- 1. Re: Another one runs again... (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 09:52:17 -0800 (PST)
- Bob, I used to worry because the fuel pump in my race car ran all the time and I used to attribute various tuning problems I was having to it. The answer I found was that many competition electric fu
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00092.html (7,667 bytes)
- 2. TR 2000 sedan (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 10:39:12 -0800 (PST)
- I have a '66 2000 which I paid $300 for, then added $700 in paint and body work at Miracle. It is a great car, it handles well and runs well. The one thing that would be a vast improvement in mine w
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00097.html (8,272 bytes)
- 3. Re: TR 2000 sedan (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 09:24:50 -0800 (PST)
- a 2000 For sure. the 2000 engine was mounted at about a 15 degree angle to vertical. As for the Amphicar I thought they used the Harold/Spit engine. /Dick Nyquist
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00130.html (7,422 bytes)
- 4. Re: TR 2000 sedan (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 09:28:17 -0800 (PST)
- The most interesting A 2000 for sure. The 2000 engine sat at about a 15 degree angle to vertical. As for the Amphicar I thought they used the Harold/Spit engine. /Dick Nyquist
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00131.html (7,409 bytes)
- 5. Berty drives an ALVIS (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 15:34:32 -0800 (PST)
- The car Wooster drives looks more like a Fraser-Nash then a AstonMartin however a couple of nights ago they had a close up that showed an Alvis badge. Dick
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00795.html (6,353 bytes)
- 6. Re: British Cars Digest #1539 Fri Jan 27 01:15:01 MST 1995 (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 14:17:33 -0800 (PST)
- Roland I'll see your Crosley jack and raise you a Crosley radiator....... .... or should it be the other way around......? 8^) Dick
- /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00990.html (6,887 bytes)
- 7. what's the dif (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 17:05:28 -0800 (PST)
- A feww years ago I pulled up to a stop light in a wealthy suburb of San Francisco. I was driving a ratted out but gutsy old tr3, with a paint job the color and texture of used brick. Next to me stopp
- /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00207.html (6,950 bytes)
- 8. Re: what's the dif (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 17:22:59 -0800 (PST)
- I don't know either... but I still do always like those Cobras. 8^) ...... maybe it was the paint job that reminded him of a Cobra. ;^) /Dick
- /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00246.html (6,982 bytes)
- 9. vacuum (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 09:24:36 -0800 (PST)
- Not only have I driven Chevys with vacuum shifters (bad) but I still own an antique bus with vacuum assisted mechanical brakes (very good). As to wipers the only vacuum wipers I ever found to always
- /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00766.html (6,578 bytes)
- 10. Re: British Cars Digest #1502 Wed Dec 28 01:15:00 MST 1994 (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 09:31:32 -0800 (PST)
- someone asked about an ignition system that gets rid of the distributor. (for a SAAB/TR7 engine swap). Many new General motors cars use a crank fire system that has no distributor. Similar but more e
- /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00768.html (7,085 bytes)
- 11. TR4 alternator?? (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 94 17:40:13 PDT
- Not only have I never seen a TR4 with an alternator as original equiptment, early GT6s, still used a generator rather then an alternator and they were made after the tr4 was discontinued, . At least
- /html/british-cars/1994-10/msg00266.html (6,335 bytes)
- 12. re:2.0head head / 2.5 block (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 16:00:26 -0800 (PST)
- you covered an impressive amount of data on the six cylinder Triumph engines. Though I didn't look at all the numbers, one piece of information struck me as a typo. You said that the small size head
- /html/british-cars/1994-10/msg01517.html (6,599 bytes)
- 13. TR ignition (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Sep 94 14:22:12 PDT
- Re: TR6 worn distrib I was recently showing some one how to tune his TR6. I had him set the points which seemed took forever but he had very little experiance. As I was working on another car at the
- /html/british-cars/1994-09/msg00040.html (7,955 bytes)
- 14. Party and bodge (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Sep 94 11:52:25 PDT
- Item 2, bodge While I've enjoyed the bodge theme, I've not posted any of my various bodges but a recent posting by Ken was too close to pass up. So here goes: In the early 1960s my wife and I were p
- /html/british-cars/1994-09/msg00146.html (10,781 bytes)
- 15. Re: British Cars Digest #1370 Tue Sep 20 11:27:47 MDT 1994 (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 94 18:08:42 PDT
- I think you might be close to right. I remember that back in the 50s the trick setup for a Chevy 6 sedan was to swap in a GMC 6. I think the Jimmy was sort of a bolt in but had better ports and much
- /html/british-cars/1994-09/msg00497.html (7,190 bytes)
- 16. Spak Plugs & DiffRe: Spark Plugs & Diff (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 11:57:39 PDT
- Spicer Diffs are made in England by Salisbury and in the US by Dana Salisbury-Spicers are uses in Triumphs, Jags and Volvos etc. Dana-Spicers are uses in big trucks, many muscle cars, jeeps and Cush
- /html/british-cars/1994-08/msg00027.html (7,311 bytes)
- 17. Racing lbcs (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 94 9:04:35 PDT
- Gerry wrote "So what happened to all the lbcs at the national level?" Gerry It gets harder and harder to be a front runner with a 25 year old car with a cast iorn engine that was designed maybe 45 or
- /html/british-cars/1994-08/msg00051.html (6,974 bytes)
- 18. Re: shaving head on TR6 Paul (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 94 10:24:54 PDT
- It's normal if you are making significant changes to cam lift or combustion chamber size to assemble the engine with a lumpof clay (or some such) on top of the piston and crank the engine over by ha
- /html/british-cars/1994-08/msg00105.html (8,203 bytes)
- 19. Cam degreeing (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 94 15:32:28 PDT
- I don't generally hear of people degreeing a cam with a file and shims. If you don't want to invest in a variable sprocket pick up a few offset keys from your friendly speed shop. They will allow you
- /html/british-cars/1994-08/msg00264.html (6,545 bytes)
- 20. TR4 alternator?? (score: 1)
- Author: Dick Nyquist <dickn@hpspdbc.vid.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 94 17:40:13 PDT
- Not only have I never seen a TR4 with an alternator as original equiptment, early GT6s, still used a generator rather then an alternator and they were made after the tr4 was discontinued, . At least
- /html/british-cars/1994-08/msg00531.html (6,335 bytes)
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