- 1. Re: Balance pipes (score: 1)
- Author: muller@sunrise.Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 92 11:00:14 EST
- lye_j asks us: Sorry, I'm neither Brian nor Scott. But that never stopped me. :-) My books on the subject are at home so I'll have to do this from memory. I think the problem has to do with the compa
- /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00045.html (9,043 bytes)
- 2. Re: It's Spring! (score: 1)
- Author: muller@sunrise.alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 92 10:17:30 EST
- Nice story about it being spring and the 250 was ready to go... We had about 1/2 inch of white stuff on the ground to remind us just how much spring it really was. Jim
- /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00053.html (6,654 bytes)
- 3. balance pipes etc. (score: 1)
- Author: muller@sunrise.alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 92 13:27:53 EST
- A quick followup on the balance pipe question. I did some digging last night just to be sure of this. This comes from several books I have on sports car design, and one particular book on intake and
- /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00097.html (11,123 bytes)
- 4. Re: Further thoughts on the list (score: 1)
- Author: muller@sunrise.alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 92 23:41:07 EST
- mjb, you miserable slut, what's all this about too much animosity on SNL? I think a bit of Miata bashing and Jane Curtain bashing is a goo.. Uh, what's that? This is SOL, not SNL? Side-curtain, not J
- /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00101.html (7,137 bytes)
- 5. Re: Gas Additives, the List (score: 1)
- Author: muller@sunrise.alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 92 10:15:26 EST
- Speaking of gasohol, I thunk there was s'posed to be soem problem with it eating away rubber parts, hoses, etc. No? Jim Muller
- /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00238.html (6,644 bytes)
- 6. Re: leaky clutch cylinder (score: 1)
- Author: muller@sunrise.alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 91 11:09:16 EST
- Tim Drabik asks about the Spitfire clutch cylinder. Does it know it is in a Spitfire? Maybe, from the frequency with which you depress it. I suppose it just gets depressed, then quits. What it needs
- /html/british-cars/1991-12/msg00041.html (8,214 bytes)
- 7. adjusting valves... (score: 1)
- Author: muller@sunrise.alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 91 10:22:12 EST
- I remember watching someone long ago adjust the valves on an Uhmurricin straight six engine while it was running. The rocker arms were twiddling away at a few rpm's, or so it seemed. We tried spinnin
- /html/british-cars/1991-12/msg00123.html (6,551 bytes)
- 8. Re: GT6/Spitfire conversion (score: 1)
- Author: muller@sunrise.alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 24 Dec 91 12:06:47 EST
- Woodruff@caen.engin.umich.edu asks us: It sounds like you should have that frame straightened. A good, unrusty frame is worth keeping (at least to anyone who wants a good Spitfire). The misfit betwee
- /html/british-cars/1991-12/msg00531.html (11,384 bytes)
- 9. Re: Interesting Tire Question (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Muller <muller@sunrise.alliant.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 91 11:59:21 EDT
- I'm disinclined to back down from a challenge like that! :-) It's nice to feel needed again so soon. Also several more :-)'s. We're talking 80-series (what used to be called 78-series), no? Perhaps a
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00141.html (11,656 bytes)
- 10. Re: Engine and gearbox vibration/noise (score: 1)
- Author: muller@sunrise.alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 91 12:13:07 EDT
- If you have a broken clutch disk or a badly out-of-balance flywheel, it will vibrate at appropriate or enough rpms, even when in neutral. You said this happens when you accelerate. Did you mean *only
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00146.html (9,152 bytes)
- 11. Re: Engine and gearbox vibration/noise (score: 1)
- Author: muller@sunrise.alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 91 17:01:25 EDT
- Flimsy cardboard in a Triumph? Firstly, I though we were talking about a Spitfire 1500, not a Midget. If it's a Midget 1500, just forget I said anything... I don't know about on the bigger TR's, but
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00152.html (8,465 bytes)
- 12. previous owner bashing (score: 1)
- Author: muller@sunrise.alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 18:15:45 EDT
- This qualifies as a previous-owner's-garage bash. Early members of this list will remember this story. When I bought my Spitfire, I asked about the extra switch under the dashboard. Seems the origina
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00279.html (11,081 bytes)
- 13. plastic windows (score: 1)
- Author: muller@sunrise.alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 91 14:57:39 EDT
- What is the recommended procedure for cleaning up the plastic rear window of a convertible top? Over time, mine has been getting scratched, and slightly hazy from microscratches. Concourse cars have
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00327.html (7,444 bytes)
- 14. A great Percy weekend... (score: 1)
- Author: muller@sunrise.alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 91 11:02:11 EDT
- I sent this out yesterday, but to the address b-c@hoosier.utah.com. I guess Internet doesn't think Univ. of Utah is a commercial company. :-} -- there was a beautiful orange TR-7 sitting there, still
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00411.html (7,781 bytes)
- 15. pushing compression (score: 1)
- Author: muller@sunrise.alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 91 13:54:17 EDT
- On this business of pushing compression to get more ooomph, I'll toss my $0.02 into the ring(*). My Spitfire has the 1976 9.5:1 compression ratio instead of the more common 7.0:1, and when it was re
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00413.html (8,891 bytes)
- 16. more on compression (score: 1)
- Author: muller@sunrise.alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 91 12:07:14 EDT
- First, a Victoria-British bashing session. Their package came yesterday, fastest delivery they've ever done for me. But then, their record with me (from our very limited dealings) has not been a hard
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00436.html (9,159 bytes)
- 17. deer? moose! (score: 1)
- Author: muller@sunrise.alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 91 14:43:19 EDT
- Woodruff tells us about hitting a deer. Sorry to hear that. New Hampshire has been having an upsurgence in moose (and Maine has had a good supply for a long time). There are signs on the interstate h
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00456.html (6,495 bytes)
- 18. why the ballast resistor (score: 1)
- Author: muller@sunrise.alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 91 12:03:15 EDT
- Some time ago, maybe a year?, I saw an explanation of why there is a ballast resistor in the coil circit. I thought the explanation was here in SOL. I am just curious, no other reason, but I remember
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00472.html (6,909 bytes)
- 19. Re: SU carb solution but MORE PROBLEMS (MGB) (score: 1)
- Author: muller@sunrise.alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 91 10:51:47 EST
- The subject line says "SU carb", but this is really about Coke and Tang. John Wr. tells us about "spilled Coca-Cola, [and] a lurking jar of Tang Breakfast Drink, which will undergo some kind of remar
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00588.html (9,022 bytes)
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