- 21. Re: Commission plate location. (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Davies <daviesw@ecid.cig.mot.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 08:48:00 +0100
- I've never actually seen a Spitfire with the Commission Plate in the door frame area, all of my Spits have had it rivetted to the left hand side of the bulkhead. Is this one of those anomalies for th
- /html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00965.html (12,949 bytes)
- 22. Re: Commission plate location. (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Davies <daviesw@ecid.cig.mot.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:09:38 +0100
- Hi Joe, I'm pretty sure of what I'll find with the UK cars, but I'll take a look at the European LHD cars at the rallies this summer - it'll make a change to crawling over every early Herald I can fi
- /html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00974.html (9,422 bytes)
- 23. Re: Gearbox interchangability (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Davies <daviesw@ecid.cig.mot.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:04:48 +0100
- I'm sure this is wrong. I have previously rebuilt 3 rail Spitfire boxes from non-O/D to O/D, and I am currently doing the groundwork to convert a single rail 1500 box to O/D using components from a
- /html/spitfires/1999-06/msg01157.html (9,717 bytes)
- 24. Re: Gearbox interchangability (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Davies <daviesw@ecid.cig.mot.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:04:20 +0100
- The overdrive and Non-overdrive propshafts (driveshafts) ARE different lengths on the single rail box. I don't remember the specifics, but there is a table in the John Kipping catalogue which gives
- /html/spitfires/1999-06/msg01162.html (9,391 bytes)
- 25. Re: Gearbox OD or not OD, that is the question (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Davies <daviesw@ecid.cig.mot.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 16:46:50 +0100
- The final drive retains the same ratio, the overdrive steps down the gearbox output by around 20% (depending on the spec of the overdrive fitted), so 1:1 non o/d becomes 0.8:1 in overdrive. Cheers,
- /html/spitfires/1999-06/msg01171.html (9,842 bytes)
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