- 341. Really Neat Engine Guts! (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:35:53 EDT
- Dont' know if I sent this link before, but: Anyone that thinks the 4, 6, or even 8 cylinder engines we use in our cars can put out a fair bit of power, take a look at this page: http://www.playerviol
- /html/mgs/2002-06/msg00719.html (7,049 bytes)
- 342. Re: Really Neat Engine Guts! (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:46:28 EDT
- <In a word: WOW! Engine warming charts, for sooth!> Yes, Fred is an over the top fan. His main page merits a look too: http://www.geocities.com/lamboguy/400GT_Website.html I hasten to add that my car
- /html/mgs/2002-06/msg00732.html (7,010 bytes)
- 343. Re: I've had enough (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:10:37 EDT
- The way some other groups handle this is to tolerate a post "I have an off-topic problem - if anyone out there can help me, please respond privately" Does the same thing and doesn't annoy the gang wi
- /html/mgs/2002-06/msg00775.html (6,945 bytes)
- 344. Re: overdrive vs 5-speed conversion (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:21:50 EDT
- I'd have to agree. I race with OD, and as long as you lift off to allow complete engagement, and use clean oil (and no synthetic) the units are pretty much fool-proof, and last a long time. Sadly, mo
- /html/mgs/2002-06/msg00821.html (7,379 bytes)
- 345. Re: Sump pan removal (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 11:38:33 EDT
- The intermediate mains and centre are no problem, but the end caps are a pain. They are secured with bolts through the timing cover on the front, and both front and rear are a bitch to get out withou
- /html/mgs/2002-06/msg00859.html (7,834 bytes)
- 346. Re: Two-tone MGB (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 16:47:06 EDT
- Bad. Potentially really bad! (IMHO, of course) Bill /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive
- /html/mgs/2002-05/msg00442.html (7,470 bytes)
- 347. Re: Sigline (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 16:19:35 EDT
- Love the signature block! Think I should do something similar. What do you think of: 88 Turbo Fiero Because I need a fast entertaining but reliable every day street sports car 94 Chrysler minivan - b
- /html/mgs/2002-05/msg00523.html (8,786 bytes)
- 348. Re: Sigline (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 17:17:31 EDT
- Kelvin - I'd seek treatment in regard for your unfortunate penchant for accumulating orphan Rovers, but some of the others make sense (well maybe not the late MGBs...). Nice to see someone worse off
- /html/mgs/2002-05/msg00527.html (7,621 bytes)
- 349. Re: twin 1 3/4" SUs on my B (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 14:55:59 EDT
- <Sigh> The HS6s won't do you any good without other engine mods - look what the guy was comparing them to when saying they made a big improvement - a downdraft Weber <gack!> fer Crisake. Your car alr
- /html/mgs/2002-05/msg00581.html (8,465 bytes)
- 350. Re: Sigline (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 15:03:32 EDT
- <Ahem> indeed, not bad for something with only 2/3 the correct number of cylinders (as a fellow bi-partisan Anglo-Italian owner I get to make cracks) Now that proves you are one sick puppy! I had a T
- /html/mgs/2002-05/msg00582.html (8,902 bytes)
- 351. Re: twin 1 3/4" SUs on my B (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 16:09:12 EDT
- Yeah right. I sometimes think I could sell soda straws stuck through corks as performance items if I just stencilled the word 'Weber' or 'Special Tuning' on them. Think of me as Pavlov in mechanics o
- /html/mgs/2002-05/msg00584.html (8,297 bytes)
- 352. Re: Van Dusen (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 09:52:12 EDT
- If any of you are going to the Van Dusen All British Field Meet tomorrow in Vancouver, drop on by and say hey. I'll be somewhere in the vicinity of the blue Jensen Interceptor, probably with a glass
- /html/mgs/2002-05/msg00617.html (6,511 bytes)
- 353. Re: VanDusen British Car Meet (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 19:54:17 EDT
- That would be me. Odd that we haven't more members up in BC! Bill Spohn /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive
- /html/mgs/2002-05/msg00705.html (6,770 bytes)
- 354. Re: Argh! Lost my MGA keys (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 08:54:10 EDT
- As others have said, any competent lock shop should be able to cut a key from the ignition number. Dead simple compared to finding people with stock of the oddball key that is used in Jensen and Lamb
- /html/mgs/2002-05/msg00884.html (8,237 bytes)
- 355. Re: Cams (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 14:40:04 EDT
- Apples and oranges. Let's talk old style - the 280 is a good suggestion for a max for street use, with either head (it isn't really as simple as generalising from a duration figure - far from it). An
- /html/mgs/2002-05/msg00915.html (8,042 bytes)
- 356. Re: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:19:19 EDT
- Good idea - it will fit right in when she yells out to the garage "Are you coming in to dinner, or are you going to work on that Fokker all night?" Bill /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorco
- /html/mgs/2002-04/msg00211.html (8,782 bytes)
- 357. Re: OD in MGAs (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:26:31 EDT
- Barney - you are correct, there were no mainshafts from MGAs to suit the Laycock OD unit. You are also correct in saying that the easiest way to do the conversion is to buy a used 1963-1968 MGB OD tr
- /html/mgs/2002-04/msg00392.html (10,292 bytes)
- 358. Re: MGC pushrods (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:42:13 EDT
- I don't think I have any lying around, but in a pinch, take one of yours in to a performance shop - any number of manufacturers have high performance pushrods available in various lengths - a few min
- /html/mgs/2002-04/msg00534.html (7,186 bytes)
- 359. Value Trivia (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:51:58 EDT
- A question I posed to another group might find interest here. In the old car game, the convertible version of a car usually brings more than the coupe. Can you think of any cars in which the coupe ve
- /html/mgs/2002-04/msg00694.html (7,683 bytes)
- 360. Re: Value Trivia (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:48:37 EDT
- Nope - different engine (hey, my rules!) No, I was looking for models that are essentially the same except for body style, so that the difference in value wasn't attributable to some rare engine or s
- /html/mgs/2002-04/msg00716.html (8,648 bytes)
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