- 161. RE: fot-digest V1 #1246 (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 07:05:05 -0700
- years <snip> So your real complaint is that your 1976 collector car will have to pass smog two or three times more ? Shouldn't be a problem at all for a restored engine. Randall
- /html/fot/2004-10/msg00146.html (6,832 bytes)
- 162. RE: 50 series tires (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:02:28 -0700
- Thanks, Kas ! I've been telling people that for years (that "too wide" tires grip better than skinny ones) but no one would believe me. Randall
- /html/fot/2004-10/msg00243.html (9,394 bytes)
- 163. RE: Interesting message (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:19:43 -0700
- He must've been paying attention during high school physics, instead of flirting with the girl next to him. Personally, I spent most of high school physics working on my car ... in the physics teach
- /html/fot/2004-10/msg00317.html (8,573 bytes)
- 164. RE: TR3 Frame work (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 21:43:57 -0700
- That would be the Technical Talk collection from Triumph Register of Southern California (TRSC). I'm pretty sure the frame gusset locations were in volume 3 (which is where most of the racing stuff i
- /html/fot/2004-09/msg00031.html (9,998 bytes)
- 165. RE: TR3 Frame (and other) work (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 20:23:03 -0700
- So is there any real improvement from the 3 deg caster ? My understanding is that it mostly just increases the centering force, which doesn't seem particularly relevant to handling as I define it. R
- /html/fot/2004-09/msg00042.html (8,261 bytes)
- 166. RE: Rev limiter revisited (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:52:49 -0700
- Those things are lousy ! That's not true, but it's likely he didn't know that. All you need to make the photo pickup you currently have work with the MSD is a Crane XR700 box. The XR700 uses the sam
- /html/fot/2004-09/msg00078.html (8,148 bytes)
- 167. RE: Rev limiter revisited - Spark Scatter (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 07:03:06 -0700
- No, I just watch the mark on the pulley dance under the timing light. I keep meaning to start watching eBay for one. I've heard they go fairly cheap and I'd like to have one. Randall
- /html/fot/2004-09/msg00083.html (6,790 bytes)
- 168. RE: Rev limiter revisited-Pertronix (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 13:10:18 -0700
- I think you're assuming that the design has been updated in the last 30 years ... Well, first you have to decide that you have a problem, then you have to decide that it's worth fixing a product wit
- /html/fot/2004-09/msg00088.html (8,613 bytes)
- 169. RE: Spark Scatter (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:29:25 -0700
- To the best of my knowledge, it encompasses both of those. And you're quite right, I was mostly looking at the first type. Of course. But changing the pickup type wouldn't have much affect on timing
- /html/fot/2004-09/msg00089.html (8,124 bytes)
- 170. RE: Rev limiter revisited (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:29:57 -0700
- Forgot to mention, the MSD instructions show how to do this. So MSD is clearly aware that it can be done ... Randall
- /html/fot/2004-09/msg00091.html (7,166 bytes)
- 171. RE: Rev limiter revisited-Pertronix (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 22:44:16 -0700
- Right. That's the piece that I'm talking about, with a power transistor inside it, mounted to the engine (via the distributor). Lots of people seem to like them, so no doubt they're nowhere near as
- /html/fot/2004-09/msg00094.html (7,636 bytes)
- 172. RE: transmission (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:49:56 -0700
- Assuming you've tried the "touch 2nd gear" trick as Don described and it hasn't helped ... this is a classic symptom of a dragging clutch or pilot bearing. For whatever reason, the engine is applyin
- /html/fot/2004-09/msg00106.html (7,763 bytes)
- 173. RE: Paging Fred Thomas... (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:35:08 -0700
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- /html/fot/2004-08/msg00015.html (6,492 bytes)
- 174. RE: speed vs hp question (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 08:55:41 -0700
- It's a cube law, so it depends on what your original top speed was and how much you try to increase it. The formula, roughly, is New Required Power = (New Speed/Old Speed)^3 * Old Power Thus, if you
- /html/fot/2004-08/msg00086.html (7,345 bytes)
- 175. RE: Speed vs hp. (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:54:45 -0700
- Aero drag increases as a square (roughly), generally rolling resistance does not but it's small enough to ignore, especially for small changes near top speed. Not quite, power is force (drag) times
- /html/fot/2004-08/msg00089.html (6,879 bytes)
- 176. RE: Engine question (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:13:32 -0700
- I'll let others talk about trying it with TRactor motors, but roller cams are a lot more than 20 years old. I can remember reading an article around 1975 about what happens when the lifter bores are
- /html/fot/2004-08/msg00142.html (7,856 bytes)
- 177. RE: Tireless in Michigan (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:25:14 -0700
- FWIW, I remember reading an article in Trailer Life (or maybe Motor Home) where they were investigating problems with abnormally short tire life. The second day out, they discovered substantially lo
- /html/fot/2004-08/msg00195.html (7,111 bytes)
- 178. RE: TR3-4 dist question (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:41:00 -0700
- One of the problems with everyone answering off-list ... never know if someone else answered or not. The one that I picked up from the parts bin seems to be about .192" ... a I make it to be about .
- /html/fot/2004-07/msg00159.html (7,499 bytes)
- 179. RE: Dot 3, 4, 5 or 5.1 (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 17:39:39 -0700
- I'm likely in the minority here ... IMO DOT 5 is the only way to go for a restored car. All of the others will eat paint if they are spilled, and are much more apt to be spilled due to their propens
- /html/fot/2004-06/msg00067.html (7,662 bytes)
- 180. RE: Dot 3, 4, 5 or 5.1 (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:17:12 -0700
- I've no personal experience, but here are the reasons I've heard : 1) DOT 5 has more of a tendency to foam when agitated in air ... that is, form tiny bubbles in the MC reservoir that are hard to bl
- /html/fot/2004-06/msg00079.html (8,422 bytes)
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