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1. optimum ignition timing. (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Tue, 5 Apr 94 16:31:16 PDT; Was very interesting to read the formula for maximum ignition advance for the wedge shaped combustion chamber... I guess that's why my Chevy big block has 52 degrees of total advance... larger bore!; /html/british-cars/1994-04/msg00090.html (6,433 bytes)
2. MGB V8 conversion. (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Sat, 9 Apr 94 22:07:22 PDT; In california, the laws are getting tougher and it sounds like they are going to institute some sort of random state inspection for smog in the future. I wouldn't modify any post-65 car. Similar thin; /html/british-cars/1994-04/msg00211.html (6,642 bytes)
3. Torque wrenches & extensions. (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 14:08:31 PDT; On a theoretical level, the socket extension can act as a torsion bar, reducing the torque getting through to the head of the nut or bolt. I don't think this makes much of a difference for a normal s; /html/british-cars/1994-04/msg00332.html (7,300 bytes)
4. Re: Roots Superchargers (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Sun, 20 Mar 94 06:46:26 PST; A pressurized SU or Stromberg would require the area above the diaphragm to be pressurized as well as the float bowls...; /html/british-cars/1994-03/msg00495.html (7,066 bytes)
5. Re: Roots Superchargers (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 16:43:51 PST; Whoops... Randy, you are quite right. Been too long since I've thought about turbocharging a Jensen-Healey, I guess... :-) Blow-through on a SU or ZS would be quite easy...; /html/british-cars/1994-03/msg00506.html (7,062 bytes)
6. Re: more misfiring (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 16:47:24 PST; Don't disconnect vacuum advance... It improves your mileage. Race cars run without the vacuum advance, but it is not a good idea for the street, unless you are almost always at full throttle & at ver; /html/british-cars/1994-03/msg00507.html (7,005 bytes)
7. forwarded mail... (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Sun, 27 Mar 94 19:19:30 PST; First, I'll give my w2w comrades a shot at my old MGB junk...er performance parts. I have for the last ten years been harbouring the makings of a racing MGB motor in my basement. I however, am comple; /html/british-cars/1994-03/msg00624.html (7,608 bytes)
8. Re: forwarded mail (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Mon, 28 Mar 94 10:59:55 PST; If interested in the MGB motor & performance parts I posted here, please contact sesquive@mailbox.syr.edu. Seems that I forgot to include his addr. (sigh).; /html/british-cars/1994-03/msg00643.html (6,285 bytes)
9. Re: Smoke Gets In Your Ears (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 15:40:03 PST; Uh... being rapid enveloped in a misty blue haze is not "a little" blow-by in my book... Sounds like big clearances somewhere... given that you have at least 10 hours on the engine, it should be pre; /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00158.html (6,733 bytes)
10. Re: More on do-it-yourself fire protection. (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Wed, 9 Feb 94 09:48:03 PST; I'd like to encourage people to use CO2 extinguishers instead of Halon when possible because Halon is ozone damaging... and dumping 5 - 10 pounds of the stuff into the air is, well, not nice. Uh... n; /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00288.html (6,801 bytes)
11. Re: GT6 Engine Questions (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 12:24:54 PST; As I recall, the TR6 uses a double roller timing chain and the GT6 uses a wimpy little single roller. Seems that there must have been a reason for the factory to spend more money on the timing chain; /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00051.html (6,584 bytes)
12. Re: GT6s (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Wed, 5 Jan 94 11:19:55 PST; Given that the GT6 has a lower A arm and fixed length upper arm (spring), putting a U-joint in there instead of a rotoflex would cause binding in the U-joints. The rotoflex is there to provide plung; /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00085.html (6,713 bytes)
13. Re: Feeling Guilty in Beantown (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Wed, 12 Jan 94 12:14:12 PST; I've broken a couple of craftsman pieces in the many years I've owned them. However, a lifetime guarantee isn't gonna do one bit of good when you break your socket after dinner on a Sunday. Get impac; /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00241.html (7,126 bytes)
14. Re: Jensen-Healey Question (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 12:05:25 PST; My green light was always on. I think it just gives additional lighting to the oil pressure gauge. There is no oil level sender like on an RX-7. Heh... though the car should probably have had one --; /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00293.html (6,689 bytes)
15. Re: Bleeding the Cooling System? (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 16:51:28 PST; Seems to me that if the thermostat has a bypass or otherwise doesn't seal completely, then gravity will cause the water to seek its own level. If the head is higher than the water filler, then the he; /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00356.html (7,124 bytes)
16. Re: inflating flat tires (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 19:27:49 PST; A few years back I bought a tire repair kit at a chain store with some rubber plugs, cement, and a T handled "needle" to repair a nail hole... Cost about $5, I think... The quality of the "needle" wa; /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00416.html (7,275 bytes)
17. Re: Radar and others. (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 16:22:46 PST; I'd rather not read a bunch of moralizing and attendant "clever" comebacks... I could go to rec.autos for that. Oh... I have a question... Were TR6s available with limited slip as standard or extra; /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00496.html (7,166 bytes)
18. Re: Chrome plating (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 11:45:59 PST; It's expensive to plate anything in CA because of the toxic waste disposal fees. Probably best to ship interstate. You want triple-plating (copper, nickle, then chrome) for your jag... otherwise the; /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00557.html (6,923 bytes)
19. Re: British Cars Digest #1024 Fri Dec 10 01:15:00 MST 1993 (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 10:50:14 PST; Jensen Healey info. A colloboration between Jensen and Healey (no surprise there, eh?). Built from 1973 to 1975 or 1976. Most were convertible, but in the last year or two about 300 GTs were built, m; /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00192.html (8,283 bytes)
20. Commercialism... (score: 1): Author: toms@sharebase.com (Tom Sabo); Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 09:48:46 PST; My vote... I'm not interested in seeing traditional ads on this group. I don't mind something like someone saying my symptoms are X and then a tech at a commercial shop saying "oh, this is your probl; /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00314.html (6,720 bytes)

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