- 341. Re: sprites upside down (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 17:04:02 EDT
- << If you increase the grip between tyre and road, you increase cornering speed >>etc Hi Guy, Not necessarily what is perhaps more likely is that you will get more body roll and more understeer. With
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00462.html (7,015 bytes)
- 342. Movie Greats.... (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 17:26:20 EDT
- O Lucky Man (great easy listening sound track) featured a big Healey. The guy driving pulled along side a ford Anglia (side valve!) laughed, and then 'booted it' - he sped off into the fog and a big
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00463.html (6,512 bytes)
- 343. Re: Octane, etc. (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 17:26:07 EDT
- << Just out of curiosity, where are you guys fnding leaded fuel? >> Mostly anywhere in England - till the end of the year - though my Sprite runs on unleaded. Daniel1312
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00464.html (7,119 bytes)
- 344. RE: Commemorative Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 09:22:41 -0400
- As far as I am concerned, once the Lotus Elise is eliminated, there is only one (new) car I would spend my pennies on: Caterham Super Seven w/Zetec engine and 6-speed. As goofy to own as a Bugeye but
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00496.html (12,033 bytes)
- 345. New top (hood) installation (score: 1)
- Author: "Danny Rendleman" <dannyr@flint.umich.edu>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 10:13:22 +0000
- New Crown top arrived Saturday. Temp should be in high 70's by the end of the week--which should be good putting on weather, I've heard. Any other words to the wise (or not so wise) regarding install
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00498.html (7,246 bytes)
- 346. RE: Commemorative Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 12:15:10 -0400
- Try http://www.sevenselans.com/newpage12.htm You'll get the general idea! Daniel58612
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00515.html (9,622 bytes)
- 347. Re: Windshield replacement (score: 1)
- Author: "DANNY RENDLEMAN" <dannyr@flint.umich.edu>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 15:58:35 EDT
- This idea may be spridget blasphemy, but given the fact that replacing a windshield seems to cause so much grief, has anyone checked into if a commercial glass place can/will/does the replacement? We
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00538.html (8,170 bytes)
- 348. Windshield replacement 2 (score: 1)
- Author: "DANNY RENDLEMAN" <dannyr@flint.umich.edu>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 16:01:47 EDT
- Sorry: I guess my suggestion has been already discussed. Must have missed the...er, thread. Is it the consensus that glass places don't want anything to do with LBC's? Danny 1974 Midget Little Guy
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00539.html (6,972 bytes)
- 349. RE: Commemorative Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 09:06:23 -0400
- New Morgans ordered by Brits over in England will take 5 or 6 years to be delivered. Every country has an allocation, however, and the demand/supply equation in the U.S. is much better. An american b
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00591.html (8,914 bytes)
- 350. Windshields, etc. (score: 1)
- Author: "DANNY RENDLEMAN" <dannyr@flint.umich.edu>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 11:46:02 EDT
- In the Archives from last summer, there were a couple suggestions for polishing scratched glass, if not too deeply pitted or gouged: one suggestion was to try alcohol and xxxx steel wool; another was
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00605.html (7,955 bytes)
- 351. Re: dieseling (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:43:37 EDT
- << cooler plugs (CHAMP N9YCC) >> I would have thought that these would have been the standard plugs. Daniel1312
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00632.html (7,570 bytes)
- 352. Re: Help... Getting over my head rapidly (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 16:04:33 EDT
- I think that everyone starts off knowing very little and learning a lot of Spridget ownership. In the beginning there is an overwhelming sense of frustration, panic, even despair when something goes
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00634.html (8,016 bytes)
- 353. Re: Wheel studs (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 16:04:15 EDT
- << I think my lug nuts are tapered and kind of go down into the holes in the wheels. CORRECT and this is an important safety point when fitting alloy wheels. Daniel1312
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00635.html (7,564 bytes)
- 354. Re: octane numbers (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 16:04:41 EDT
- << The tests are carried out in a single cylinder engine >> This is a CFR engine and is antique. A couple of DVs books have very good sections on petrol/gas in them, though technology has moved on a
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00636.html (7,084 bytes)
- 355. Re: no more rattly chains (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 16:04:28 EDT
- I think you will find that belts and belt drive conversion kits are still Kent Cams (try A.P.T in the USA) have a new A-Series sprocket and chain conversion kit that is supposed to be superior to the
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00641.html (6,980 bytes)
- 356. Re: Automotive calculations for dummies (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 17:33:54 EDT
- << A really old timers trick was just prior to shut down, blip the throttle a time or two and shut off the key then. Seems that the incoming air with the engine coming down to idle speed, will cool t
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00642.html (7,967 bytes)
- 357. A tangent, but maybe an interesting one... (score: 1)
- Author: "Danny Rendleman" <dannyr@flint.umich.edu>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 23:16:43 +0000
- Interesting to see all the folks who read The Red Car. Others might include Crash Club. Others that don't come to mind immediately but that are out there. I read all the books that had anything to do
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00666.html (7,535 bytes)
- 358. Re: back from vacation (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:08:15 EDT
- << I'm still trying to find the A-pillar rainy-day leak in the midget. >> Get inside the car with a flashlight and get someone to shut the door and then spray the car with water from a garden hose pi
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00704.html (6,950 bytes)
- 359. CFR engine (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:07:57 EDT
- << Daniel, What is a CFR engine? Andy This is the single cylinder antique engine that is used for no other purpose than to work out octane ratings. I forget what the letters CFR stand for - but the e
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00705.html (7,805 bytes)
- 360. who was looking for a bodyshell? (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 11:41:45 -0400
- Whoever was looking for a bodyshell there is a '68 Midget shell for sale on the MG classifieds. Price is $500, location is Florida and condition is supposed to be good. email is VICKING1@juno.com Goo
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00766.html (6,842 bytes)
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