- 101. FOT Nomination (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@AOL.COM
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 17:02:17 EST
- Hi FOT, I have been in touch with Bill Emery, WEmery7451@AOL.com , for some time. He may well be the last person still racing a TR3A (red) in scca e production. At my suggestion, he wishes to join th
- /html/fot/1999-11/msg00083.html (6,596 bytes)
- 102. Re: Bombing of Coventry (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@AOL.COM
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 17:05:30 EST
- Jolly good thing that the Allies did not have a second place finish!
- /html/fot/1999-11/msg00084.html (6,814 bytes)
- 103. Re: TR compression vs. HP, etc (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@AOL.COM
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 23:07:21 EDT
- << The issue of pop-up pistons has come to the fore several times over the years and the information never seems to be saved or passed. >> <snip> Once the good heads were gone, it became clear to me
- /html/fot/1999-10/msg00072.html (7,549 bytes)
- 104. Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@AOL.COM
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:45:14 EDT
- << if all vintage race events were limited to cars that had actually been raced at a given time period, there would be SMALL fields and 1 or 2 car classes. >> <snip> Is this really true? Often more o
- /html/fot/1999-09/msg00168.html (8,556 bytes)
- 105. Laguna (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@AOL.COM
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:57:17 EDT
- Hi FOT, Anyone plan to be at Laguan Seca this weekend? I plan to crew for a Windfield Special driver who has crewed for me. Hardy (My TR3 is still resting)
- /html/fot/1999-08/msg00165.html (6,268 bytes)
- 106. Re: TR6 pinion failure/ part house bearings (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@AOL.COM
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 02:44:16 EDT
- << On a related note, disassembled two TR6 diffs over the weekend. Both have the same failure mode, both appear to have had cracks in the pinion gear that come from a stress riser from the original m
- /html/fot/1999-07/msg00056.html (8,495 bytes)
- 107. Re: rear diff. axel flange (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 18:56:03 EDT
- << EP TR-6 out on the track. After only 5 hot laps I came in with a clunking sound. What I found was both the rear axle flanges broken. I had taken the rear diff in for new seals & bearings and hate
- /html/fot/1999-06/msg00021.html (7,824 bytes)
- 108. Re: john kelly memorial trophy (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:10:10 EDT
- << susanne miller (john's fiance) is giving a trophy as a memorial to john. this is one of john's old trophies that she had mounted on a new base and inscribed. susanne, lanky foushee, bill warner an
- /html/fot/1999-06/msg00099.html (6,935 bytes)
- 109. Spacers for wire wheel hubs (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@AOL.COM
- Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 01:55:36 EDT
- When I started racing my TR3, I had to switch between wire and disc wheels, so I had a machine shop make spacers the exact thickness required by the two stud lengths. The spacers were a close fit on
- /html/fot/1999-06/msg00120.html (7,447 bytes)
- 110. Re: Straight cut/close ratio gears (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 01:57:18 EDT
- << I opened up the tranny, and found what looks like normal gears. I tried comparing gears with some old TR6 ones I had in a box, and one had the same number of teeth and another was off by one. If m
- /html/fot/1999-05/msg00100.html (7,742 bytes)
- 111. Sabrina's actual sizes (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 00:54:44 EDT
- Who has definitive information about the inlet and exhaust valve sizes for the DOHC Sabrina motor, the larger the better; and a possible total number of these motors that were built. Thank you in ad
- /html/fot/1999-04/msg00024.html (6,280 bytes)
- 112. A trick learned whilst Flying (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:47:27 EDT
- I have discovered that landing on the grass helps avoid most blown tires. Another trick that I learned, on the fly, so to speak (at Road Atlanta) is that an in-flight barrel roll can be stopped by cl
- /html/fot/1999-04/msg00196.html (6,906 bytes)
- 113. Re: Steering Question (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:51:03 EDT
- << Jack Drews noticed that my tie rod levers seemed too long, the tie rod ends seemed to be angled towards the front of the car at a significantly greater angle than the ones on his car. Last night,
- /html/fot/1999-04/msg00210.html (7,590 bytes)
- 114. Re: Diff Differences... (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 13:42:29 EST
- << I used a welded rear end in my TR-4A race car for 23 years nad never had any problems. Mine was an IRS car, and when I was first setting it up I talked with Bob Tullius >> <snip> I have always run
- /html/fot/1999-03/msg00055.html (8,242 bytes)
- 115. Fwrd. 1 attempt to save SCCA Prod (long) (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:35:10 EST
- Bob Bennett called me recently and faxed a copy of the following letter after we spent quite some time discussing the issues involved. He races an MGB, and used to race in BP and AP. I feel that thi
- /html/fot/1999-03/msg00162.html (9,630 bytes)
- 116. Re: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:01:53 EST
- For those of you that insist on flogging your TRs, a little TR3 history, and my solution. Quite a few seasons ago I had a series of races that I successfully completed with the smell of gear oil. I w
- /html/fot/1999-03/msg00172.html (8,929 bytes)
- 117. Re: GT6 INPUT SHAFT (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 01:38:14 EST
- << DOES ANYONE HAVE A USED GT6 INPUT SHAFT FOR SALE? IT NEED NOT BE FIRST RATE OR SERVICEABLE. WE WANT TO USE IT AS A CLUTCH CENTERING TOOL. BILL DENTINGER If you have a single plate clutch, you do n
- /html/fot/1999-02/msg00025.html (6,855 bytes)
- 118. Re: Clutch Disk (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:24:26 EST
- << .but isn't that the GT6 spline? >> Wishes for a quick recovery! A std. GT6 spline is 1 X 10 SAE, which is also the Dolomite SPRINT size; where the recent CR gearsets came from, with cut back lengt
- /html/fot/1999-02/msg00071.html (6,613 bytes)
- 119. Re: Synthetic Lubricants (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:06:01 EST
- FOT: I was trying to stay hidden until R.W. Kastner was on board, but Jack Wheeler just had to get me in trouble :-) << 1. What are the advantages of synthetic oils and why does it appear everyone is
- /html/fot/1999-02/msg00121.html (9,265 bytes)
- 120. Re: Spit exhaust questions (score: 1)
- Author: Catpusher@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:54:48 EST
- << a Supertrapp >> <snip> If you have the motor fully tweaked, noise restrictions would be the only reason to upset things. There are stories of motors gaining power from noise reduction devices, but
- /html/fot/1999-02/msg00123.html (7,164 bytes)
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