- 121. YeeeeeeeeeeeHAAAAAA! (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 94 20:35:55 PST
- Well, in case you couldn't tell... It WORKS! Earlier today, Chris Kantarjiev came by to help me get the new starter into my '71 MGB. For anyone who's just joining the list, this is my MGB that made u
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00238.html (9,747 bytes)
- 122. Tuning Your SU Carburetors (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 13:05:32 PST
- I know that Roger Garnett has an acclaimed write-up on tuning SU carbs, but here's the distillation of my experience on the subject. I just wrote it up for a couple of other lists, and it certainly a
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00265.html (19,165 bytes)
- 123. Small World (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 13:54:32 PST
- I don't think I've mentioned this yet. This will mainly be of interest to John Ross, who owns my old race car, but it points out what a small and connected community the owners of old British sports
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00267.html (7,805 bytes)
- 124. RE: PCV valves and MGB's (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 15:06:19 PST
- Don't worry, it doesn't come across that way. You'd have to call someone a nanosexual melonhumping cheeseball (or something *really* unpleasant) for it to be taken as a flame... :-) Ah. Right, I've
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00268.html (9,792 bytes)
- 125. RE: PCV valves and MGB's (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 94 09:58:36 PST
- I did the unthinkable last night... I Read The Factory Manual (how about *that* for a last-minute cleanup?). Marcus is in luck, because the actual pictures in the Bentley manual for the MGB show a m
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00291.html (8,658 bytes)
- 126. RE: PCV valves and MGB's (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 94 10:11:28 PST
- Sticking floats or badly ovaled holes will do that, as will dirt in the needle valves between the valve and the seat. (Um... remembering some damn stupid thing I did ten years or so ago, so will hoo
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00292.html (8,957 bytes)
- 127. RE: PCV valves and MGB's (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 94 13:50:03 PST
- Okay, look at your canister. It's got three tubes in the top and one tube in the bottom, sticking out the side. On top it's got one 1/2" hose in the middle that goes to the valve cover, right? That'
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00299.html (10,761 bytes)
- 128. Re: Wade, yellow & Deja-Vu (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@Megatest.COM (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 10:04:44 PST
- Yeah, right, and it's not denial either. :-) I had exactly the opposite problem this last fall as I reassembled the M.G. with the new motor in it. I used new hardware to replace most of the 5/16-24
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00309.html (8,381 bytes)
- 129. Re: rec.autos.british-cars (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 94 15:30:49 PST
- Quite a bit. This is what went on with the racers mailing list, started in the mid-Eighties by Rich Welty. The charter of the list was to provide a clearinghouse of information for people involved in
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00024.html (8,611 bytes)
- 130. Re: Stupid Starting Tricks (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 94 13:10:56 PST
- Yup. The ground is new when I converted to 12V. The rest --well, make that "the other" now -- is clean. They don't. Aha! I'll check that connection (see DQ#2). Yes, that's in solid. Dumb question #1
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00101.html (8,187 bytes)
- 131. Re: front Spring Compressor for MGB (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 94 13:42:20 PST
- First: PhileE, where was that disclaimer you included about how if you get killed, it's your own damn fault? I need to borrow it... :-) I bought a spring compressor to do my MGB (tourer but same susp
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00102.html (10,079 bytes)
- 132. Re: A-Series Engines (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 94 12:02:39 PST
- There are three years of Midget that I'd consider buying if I were going to get back into A Series sports cars: 72, 73, and 67. (74 would come a close fourth, as my first Midget -- my first M.G. --
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00158.html (12,639 bytes)
- 133. Re: STARTER PROBLEMS (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 10:45:52 PST
- Well, there's good and bad news. The bad news is that I still don't know why the car wouldn't start. The good news is that that's because both the starter and the solenoid are bad. :-) I tried, oh,
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00188.html (9,014 bytes)
- 134. Re: Round arch Spridgets (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 10:55:07 PST
- DOn't cut the bonnet, just replace the whole thing with glassfibre. IMHO, the prettiest of the aftermarket Spridget bonnets was that produced by Speedwell, a tuning firm that made race bits for Spri
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00192.html (9,169 bytes)
- 135. The List's Collective MGB (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 15:50:05 PST
- Well, if you can get $1500 for that shell, let me know the number of the buyer, as I've got a complete MGB that he could have for, oh, I guess I could let it go for $10,000. But the price will go up
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00222.html (9,678 bytes)
- 136. Re: 67 MGB transmission request (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 94 09:33:14 PST
- Also due to the fact that -- at least in the ball-bearing replacements that I have pulled off the odd clutch fork -- the face of the bearing surface was made of *plastic* with steel balls inside it.
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00264.html (7,755 bytes)
- 137. Re: Midgets (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 11:24:04 PST
- HS2s, actually; the HS4s are on MGBs. You can put HS4s on a Midget with the proper manifold, but they're not stock. The tricky bit with the fuel lines on post-68 Spridgets is the return for the vapo
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00296.html (9,081 bytes)
- 138. Re: New MG? (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 15:48:02 PST
- Well, of course, there almost *was* an MGD nearly 20 years ago, also a mid-engined car with transverse 1.8L four. But I'll accept the name. And in '95, I'll get my royalties from '94 sales of the bo
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00304.html (8,310 bytes)
- 139. Re: LBC Mods vs. Calif. Emmissions. (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 94 13:33:58 PST
- Well, with a '73 you miss the $500 out-of-state registration fee that California enforces on post-75 cars not initially registered in CA. So the outlook isn't entirely black. Yes, then no to your tw
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00318.html (9,602 bytes)
- 140. Re: Lotus noise cancellation, etc. (score: 1)
- Author: sfisher@megatest.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 94 17:25:07 PST
- Jeeez. When my two-year-old, Bronwen, was learning what noises things make ("What does a cow say?" "Mooo!" etc.), one thing I insisted on was "What does an M.G. say?" "Vrooom!" She got to find out f
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00321.html (8,566 bytes)
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