- 21. RE: Condensor-speak (score: 1)
- Author: I got my education from Interstate U. <tobin@neagp.enet.dec.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 91 10:17:55 PDT
- First year electronics students used to get this trick played on them all the time. We'd charge a few up, leave them on the bench with some other parts. Working on some project, we'd ask one to get
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00010.html (7,003 bytes)
- 22. Re: Stecz and the Bugeye (score: 1)
- Author: I got my education from Interstate U. <tobin@neagp.enet.dec.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 91 06:39:50 PDT
- A *supercharged* Bugeye?????!!!!!! I can't imagine it running over 2lbs of boost without having a *very* short half-life! This made my morning! Greg
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00084.html (7,451 bytes)
- 23. RE: Has anyone been receiving the exotic-cars mailing list? (score: 1)
- Author: Great Plains <tobin@neagp.enet.dec.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 91 06:59:07 PDT
- Same goes for the muscle cars list. Someone posted the list of all the groups a few weeks back, and I haven't received anything. Disclaimer: This isn't me actually making the request- it's my evil tw
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00117.html (7,335 bytes)
- 24. Re: Puzzle from Joe Lucas (score: 1)
- Author: I'll be lookin for eight when they pull that gate <tobin@neagp.enet.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 91 10:35:25 PDT
- A similar problem happened to my Spitfire. Sometimes they would blink knda slow, sometimes normal, sometimes not at all. But the brake lights also did the same thing. I tore the assemblies all apart,
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00164.html (7,911 bytes)
- 25. Previous owner bashing: the saga continues (score: 1)
- Author: I'll be lookin for eight when they pull that gate <tobin@neagp.enet.dec.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 91 11:15:21 PDT
- When I got the Spitfire, and before I found the bolted through harness, I had to do a lot of debugging on the front harness. Naturally, I had to see the rear of the fuse block, poked my head under th
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00203.html (7,208 bytes)
- 26. Re: previous owner bashing (score: 1)
- Author: Set the Transmorgifier to 'Gila Monster'!!! <tobin@neagp.enet.dec.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 91 11:41:45 PDT
- Superglue is great stuff! My starter in the spit has a good amount of it inside. For some unexplicable reason, two of the brushes were twice as worn as the other two, so I put some rigid foam on top
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00288.html (8,466 bytes)
- 27. Sterlings- (score: 1)
- Author: I need a jukebox & a Country song... <tobin@neagp.enet.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 91 11:32:12 PST
- Maybe my source was wrong, but I thought the method of making a Sterling was kind of odd. The drivetrain was Japanese. Check. Bodywork Japanese. Check. Leatherwork Japanese. Odd, but ok. Electrics Br
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00508.html (6,977 bytes)
- 28. RE: More MGB Questions (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Tobin NEA SPS @ DEC" <tobin@neagp.enet.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 91 09:45:35 PST
- Hi Bob About the Weber carb: There should be a mixture adjustment screw for the idle circuit, which providing the rest of the carb is set up for your car very nicely, can get it just right. But if yo
- /html/british-cars/1991-02/msg00063.html (7,525 bytes)
- 29. Re: Cold starting a Spitfire, how long does it take? (score: 1)
- Author: Greg Tobin NEA SPS DEC <tobin@neagp.enet.dec.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 91 16:40:52 EST
- Well, my 79 Spitfire takes a *while* to start after a cold nights sleep. Then again, it has no choke- so the right foot gets its exercise by pumping furiously for 20 seconds to make up for the fact t
- /html/british-cars/1991-01/msg00148.html (7,399 bytes)
- 30. Re: MGB Help- (score: 1)
- Author: Greg Tobin NEA SPS DEC <tobin@neagp.enet.dec.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 91 06:10:52 PST
- I would repeat a tip that Mark already alluded to: Check the wiring for hacks. If nothing else- this really shows what kind of owner had it before. Take a peek behind the fuse block, in the trunk, s
- /html/british-cars/1991-01/msg00243.html (7,230 bytes)
- 31. Re: More MPG of LBC's (score: 1)
- Author: "Where the old men rock and the tumbleweeds roll..." <tobin@neagp.enet.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 90 13:31:36 PST
- Another mpg response: On my 79 spit 1500, with the Allison ignition and a Weber, I get around 22-25. -Though there was that time when I tuned it *way* to lean, got close to 35, but you had to put up
- /html/british-cars/1990-12/msg00037.html (6,664 bytes)
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