- 41. waving at other MGs, MkII (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 08:22:09 -0400
- Fellow fiends: The question has been brought forth: I'll get flamed by Jay T. for this, but we Miata owners used to wave too. Now, they are so common it isn't cool to own one anymore, so folks don't
- /html/mgs/1996-07/msg01021.html (8,499 bytes)
- 42. B/GT "special" (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 08:42:22 -0400
- Fellow fiends: In my never ending search for the perfect '67 B/GT (hey, Denise, are you listening?), I've come across a curiosity, if not a perfect '67 B/GT. The CO of a '67 GT sez his car is a "spec
- /html/mgs/1996-07/msg01026.html (8,347 bytes)
- 43. lotus list? (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 08:35:13 -0400
- Sorry for the bomb, but can someone tell me what the address is for the lotus list? I tried lotus-cars@ix.netcom.com and it bounced (?). Thanks, Will
- /html/mgs/1996-07/msg01091.html (6,189 bytes)
- 44. Re: +4 Motor Rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 15:51:19 -0400
- Just to make sure everyone understands what I mean: I have not used any lubricant to assemble rings on pistons. I have done that "dry." OTOH, I have wetted the cylinder walls with motor oil when I ta
- /html/mgs/1996-06/msg00050.html (6,990 bytes)
- 45. Voltmeter/Ampmeter (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 08:47:43 -0400
- Phil and others: I've contemplated the same additions. Where on the dash did you install these gauges? Where did you purchase the gauges you installed? I suppose you put them where the radio speaker
- /html/mgs/1996-06/msg00070.html (6,902 bytes)
- 46. Fram oil filters (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 08:55:33 -0400
- Fellow fiends: A quick question regarding the fram oil filters: I assume the two postings yesterday regarding them were in cars where the filter is mounted "upside down" (i.e. threaded end down)?? I
- /html/mgs/1996-06/msg00120.html (7,486 bytes)
- 47. oil flow paths (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 09:00:53 -0400
- Fellow fiends: As long as we're on the subject of oil filters and such, can someone tell me the pathway that oil takes in the engine? I have the Bentley manual and it has a drawing of the oil passage
- /html/mgs/1996-06/msg00122.html (6,785 bytes)
- 48. pardon my ignorance... (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 10:47:27 -0400
- Fellow fiends: I am catching up on the digests (I've been out of town) and read the posting regarding fluctuating oil preasure and have grown confused. --How can the gauge be reading 90lbs if the eng
- /html/mgs/1996-06/msg00288.html (7,650 bytes)
- 49. MG news in Car and Driver? (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 12:55:36 -0400
- Fellow fiends: A friend, who isn't a car guy (so he's not a really goooood friend), says he saw something in the current/latest issue of "Car and Driver" about marketing MGs in the USA (he probably s
- /html/mgs/1996-06/msg00319.html (6,821 bytes)
- 50. Mid-Ohio vintage races (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 08:18:57 -0400
- Fellow fiends and mog-o-philes: I just noted the dates for the June Mid-Ohio vintage races. They are coming up quicker than I thought: June 21-23. It appears that some sort of Ohio Morgan club is hav
- /html/mgs/1996-06/msg00341.html (7,233 bytes)
- 51. hp and torque maximums (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:25:31 -0400
- Fellow fiends: Can someone out there settle a discussion I'm having with some members of my local car-guy support group? --What are the rpm values for maximum horse power and torque on the three main
- /html/mgs/1996-06/msg00493.html (6,795 bytes)
- 52. more on oil, MkII (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 13:09:17 -0400
- Many of you will realize that most often I don't know what I'm talking about, but... aren't these conditions Bill describes just about the worst when it comes to engine stress? If so, and if oil has
- /html/mgs/1996-06/msg00677.html (7,932 bytes)
- 53. back from Mid-Ohio (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 07:51:32 -0400
- Fellow fiends: Well, several cigars later, I'm back home from Mid-Ohio and the June Vintage races. I wanted to report on the presence of MG cars in the races. This will be a (mercifully) short report
- /html/mgs/1996-06/msg00798.html (7,060 bytes)
- 54. MGA Carbs available (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 08:12:55 -0400
- Fellow fiends: I have a pair of MG HS carbs I lifted from a '61 parts car some years ago, and I don't want them now. They are complete with pancake air filters, manifold and those odd brass linkages.
- /html/mgs/1996-06/msg00799.html (6,543 bytes)
- 55. rubber GTs (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 15:48:04 -0400
- If I had to add my two cents worth, and it seems that I do, I would suggest that the GT was discontinued because it didn't meet higher rollover requirements. That begs the issue of how the roadster s
- /html/mgs/1996-06/msg00916.html (7,511 bytes)
- 56. topless GTs (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 16:03:28 -0400
- Fellow fiends: To the fellow who contemplates a chop job on his GT: for all the reasons that have already been given, don't do it. OTOH, I can offer personal testimony that even a moderately priced a
- /html/mgs/1996-06/msg00917.html (6,639 bytes)
- 57. rubber GTs/rubber logic, too (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 12:59:38 -0400
- You haven't heard anything yet. Have I discussed my 'line bore and oil leaks in three-mains' theory with you lately? Ah ha! But you see? You forgot to ignore the man behind the curtain. I've already
- /html/mgs/1996-06/msg00971.html (7,994 bytes)
- 58. crossflow heads (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 09:26:06 -0400
- Todd M. et al.: I can, if you really want it, theorize for hours on the virtues and vices of a crossflow head. None of it would be based upon experience or knowldege, so I'll pass. OTOH, it is my und
- /html/mgs/1996-06/msg00994.html (8,320 bytes)
- 59. danger: philosophical redline (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 08:11:03 -0400
- Fellow fiends: Well, after many interesting responses to my deep philosophical questions regarding restorations and upkeep, our very own Jay Tilton writes (in reference to the paradox of Xeno's arrow
- /html/mgs/1996-05/msg00128.html (8,098 bytes)
- 60. thanks, Miq (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 08:43:21 -0400
- Don't Thanks, Miq. I knew those loudmouths (Jay, I'm ashamed of you!) were just trying to goad us free-thinkers into making some comments and you handled it fine. I guess PC has hit MGS, with these p
- /html/mgs/1996-05/msg00131.html (7,692 bytes)
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