- 41. RE: Simple Question: Bump Stops (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 07:22:20 -0500
- Hi, I'm preparing for another phase of "lowering", and I've become perplexed with the issue of bump stops on the front suspension of my TR6. The short version of the question is: are the bumps stops
- /html/fot/2000-03/msg00004.html (8,995 bytes)
- 42. RE: A/H 100-4 Crankshaft (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 07:42:46 -0500
- Healy Surgeons (301) 270-8811 has been very helpful with a lot of parts. I am doing some work on a friend's 1954 A/H 100, and have used them often. Amici, A local mechanic/friend is looking for an Au
- /html/fot/2000-03/msg00005.html (6,754 bytes)
- 43. RE: Early High Port Heads & Figure 8's (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:50:07 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BF8759.BE821B20 Henry, check the Kastner book again. The early heads (TR-2 & very early TR-3 - think they were changed at about chassis number 9000) were 'LOW port heads'. I know
- /html/fot/2000-03/msg00059.html (14,746 bytes)
- 44. RE: Early High Port Heads & Figure 8's (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 13:16:08 -0500
- As I grow older I find that my mind sometimes plays tricks on me. Hope that doesn't happen to anyone else on the list! When I read the note to which I was responding below, for some reason I assumed
- /html/fot/2000-03/msg00065.html (9,541 bytes)
- 45. TRA Annual Meet? (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:29:36 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BF8E69.5E567D60 Does anyone on the list have any information about a TRA (Triumph Register of America) Annual Meet this year? Specifically, are they going to have one, and if so,
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- 46. RE: Fwd: Spitfire homologation (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:07:01 -0500
- I have GCR's back to 1974. I'm sure someone on the list will have them back before that. If so, perhaps we can get them archived by year and make copies available to those who need them. What do othe
- /html/fot/2000-03/msg00223.html (9,716 bytes)
- 47. RE: Oil temp and sender location (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 07:11:07 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BF9304.A276A520 I always measured my oil temperature in the sump, because I figured that is where the temperature would be at it's highest. I ran a sizeable oil cooler and always
- /html/fot/2000-03/msg00288.html (11,374 bytes)
- 48. RE: A couple questions (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:49:37 -0500
- To the dirty fingernail crowd, Question 1: Upon tearing down the engine in my race car, I found one of the connecting rod bolts was finger tight. My machine shop gave the rod a clean bill of health a
- /html/fot/2000-03/msg00296.html (11,671 bytes)
- 49. RE: Autopower roll bar tests (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:11:16 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BF94C9.48E70420 Don, I used the same bar you are talking about when I first started racing (1974). After the first year, I cut it down, welded it to the frame and gradually added
- /html/fot/2000-03/msg00320.html (12,322 bytes)
- 50. RE: Roll Bars and suspension stiffening?? (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 07:04:25 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BF955F.32F964A0 Bill, I don't have a lot of experience with Vintage racing, but I did build a TR-3B for Vintage racing a number of years ago, which I eventually sold to Phil Bradb
- /html/fot/2000-03/msg00332.html (15,828 bytes)
- 51. RE: Race mechanic's wages (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 08:25:48 -0500
- The name Fred Opert does sound familiar. I grew up just 14 miles from Watkins Glen, and started going to races there in the early 60's. I'll bet that's where I heard his name. I'll have to dig out so
- /html/fot/2000-02/msg00018.html (8,185 bytes)
- 52. RE: South of the Border...was Re: 'M80's' (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 09:49:11 -0500
- Bill, the item below sounds like Buddy Palumbo talking to Miss Julie Finzio. Have you spoken with Burt Levy about copyright infringement? I was into girls. I didn't say that right. I was interested i
- /html/fot/2000-02/msg00061.html (8,434 bytes)
- 53. RE: Gearbox Oil - Overdrives (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:57:40 -0500
- I used 50 Wt Valvoline Racing Oil in my race car transmission for nearly 20 years without a problem (both overdrive and non-overdrive). In my street cars I use EP80/90 Valvoline gear oil, again, with
- /html/fot/2000-02/msg00143.html (10,288 bytes)
- 54. RE: Free club membership (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:44:29 -0500
- This is a good idea, which Harley Davidson figured out years ago. With each new Harley I have bought, I receive a free one year membership to the Harley Owners Group (H.O.G.). This way, Harley can br
- /html/fot/2000-02/msg00155.html (8,466 bytes)
- 55. RE: The Hub of the Issue (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:48:16 -0500
- As I have mentioned before on the list, I have plans that were provided to me in 1976 by Group 44 (sorry, Kas) for rear hubs for the TR-4A through TR-6. I won't bore the whole list with the details,
- /html/fot/2000-02/msg00212.html (15,857 bytes)
- 56. RE: Racetorations Hubs (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 06:57:14 -0500
- If the $1800 sounds high, compare that to the cost to replace/rebuild your car when you break a stock stub axle during a race and roll your car up into a little ball! Hi Paul... brochure The pictures
- /html/fot/2000-02/msg00239.html (8,585 bytes)
- 57. RE: Front disc brakes (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 07:08:15 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BF79DE.EF6D94E0 I ran vented rotors on my TR-4A race car. The conversion is fairly simple. I purchased aluminum hubs from Tilton. These are designed for this conversion and use st
- /html/fot/2000-02/msg00240.html (12,242 bytes)
- 58. RE: Front disc brakes (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 08:28:30 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BF79EA.2517FB20 Joe, the Tilton hubs were designed specifically to adapt the Jaguar brakes to the TR-6. This was done for Group 44 in the early 70's when SCCA first allowed the la
- /html/fot/2000-02/msg00243.html (15,589 bytes)
- 59. RE: Who's guilty? (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 07:29:55 -0500
- If they changed the rear seal in 4 laps, I can guarantee it wasn't a Triumph Daytona 500 -- Jeff Gordon delayed 4 laps because of leaking rear crank seal -- Okay, you guys, who slipped the Triumph en
- /html/fot/2000-02/msg00287.html (7,027 bytes)
- 60. RE: TR3-Overdrive (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:58:03 -0500
- Pat, do you know what model overdrive units were used by Volvo? I have always been told that they did not use the A-Type, like were fitted to TR-3's and TR-4's. I have a source for Volvo overdrives (
- /html/fot/2000-02/msg00329.html (7,213 bytes)
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