- 1. Re: Question re: '60 Bugeye (score: 1)
- Author: miq@teleport.com
- Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 10:48:45 -0700 (PDT)
- Having immediate access to a '61 bugeye, a '63 MK II, a '66 MK III and a '70 MG MK III, I'll point out that there are actually three cockpit sizes. The Bugeyes end 2" behind the seats, the MK II exte
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00058.html (9,795 bytes)
- 2. Re: Rear Disk Brakes (score: 1)
- Author: miq@teleport.com
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:20:03 -0700 (PDT)
- I have one of these on Frankensprite. Axle is from a 1984 RX7 GSL-SE hub to hub it cost me $75 at a wrecker, I had a tranny/driveline shop narrow it for $400. Just had to weld the perches from the BM
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00777.html (9,227 bytes)
- 3. Re: Rear Disk Brakes (score: 1)
- Author: miq@teleport.com
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:56:48 -0700 (PDT)
- Blasting the answer to the list, there seems to be an interest.... The GSL-SE (1984-1985) was the only model of the first gen rx7 to have LSD and rear disc's. Later models (1986+) went to a 5 bolt pa
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00780.html (8,053 bytes)
- 4. Re: Drilled rotors (score: 1)
- Author: miq@teleport.com
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 14:11:52 -0700 (PDT)
- And if youare experiencing enough fade and heat to warrant "cross drilled" rotors, you will likely also be experiencing enough heat and stress to snap the rotor from the hub like a cheap straw hat. Y
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01086.html (9,544 bytes)
- 5. Re: Value of CB Midget (score: 1)
- Author: miq@teleport.com
- Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 23:42:35 -0700 (PDT)
- You guys must not have been on the original britcars list. Scott is an old timer (like me, and Bob Bownes, and TeriAnn Wakeman, and Phil Ethier, and about a half dozen others that are still out there
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00283.html (8,185 bytes)
- 6. Re: Mini Cobra (score: 1)
- Author: miq@teleport.com
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:51:51 -0700 (PDT)
- The miata stripe machine by Keith Tanner: http://www.eunos.com/keith/stripes/machine/index.html -- __ Miq Millman miq@teleport.com Tualatin, OR
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01239.html (7,661 bytes)
- 7. Re: need honest response.....please (score: 1)
- Author: miq@teleport.com
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 13:16:08 -0800 (PST)
- Calm down a notch Jay, what you're talking about already exists. It's called the Monster List of Vendors and it is on www.team.net under the sol section and maintained by Chris Kentarjiev. -- __ Miq
- /html/spridgets/1999-03/msg00091.html (9,380 bytes)
- 8. Re: Sway bar mounting bolts (score: 1)
- Author: miq@teleport.com
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 10:09:30 -0700 (PDT)
- Actually, Grade 8 tends to shear with a clean snap at it s limit, where as Grade 5 will stretch first. I'd go with Grade 5. -- __ Miq Millman miq@teleport.com Tualatin, OR
- /html/spridgets/1998-09/msg00948.html (9,124 bytes)
- 9. Re: Fiberglass bonnets (score: 1)
- Author: Miq Millman <miq@teleport.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 20:58:54 -0700 (PDT)
- I have a bonnet just as Frank describes in my shop right now. He's 100% accurate as far as I can tell. Frank have you been snooping around my shop? I bought it in 1990 from Winner's Circle. It needs
- /html/spridgets/1998-08/msg00564.html (8,611 bytes)
- 10. Re: Looking for hammertone (score: 1)
- Author: Miq Millman <miq@teleport.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 02:27:02 -0700 (PDT)
- <bunch of rather poor descriptions deleted> Geez guys, as the name implies, it leaves a finish that looks like hammered metal. Hammerite paint sells it in a variety of colors and you can get it in br
- /html/spridgets/1998-07/msg00713.html (9,094 bytes)
- 11. Re: Looking for hammertone (score: 1)
- Author: Miq Millman <miq@teleport.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 02:30:03 -0700 (PDT)
- In case it wasn't clear, Hammerite is a brand, like Krylon or Plasticoat. -- __ Miq Millman miq@teleport.com Tualatin, OR
- /html/spridgets/1998-07/msg00714.html (8,291 bytes)
- 12. Re: Gas pedal (score: 1)
- Author: Miq Millman <miq@teleport.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 10:42:43 -0700 (PDT)
- Or, if you don't want to fab something, and want to stay in the family, look for a big healey brake pedal, it bolts to the top rod that the accel uses, and makes for a really nice heel+toe position.
- /html/spridgets/1998-05/msg00177.html (8,017 bytes)
- 13. Re: Napa fuel pumps (score: 1)
- Author: Miq Millman <miq@teleport.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:34:48 -0800 (PST)
- A point to ponder here: From my personal experience, getting the pump that puts out 5-7 psi and using a regulator to get it down to the 3.5 psi that webers, or the 2.5 psi that Su's seem to be fond o
- /html/spridgets/1998-03/msg00453.html (8,541 bytes)
- 14. Re: Napa fuel pumps (score: 1)
- Author: Miq Millman <miq@teleport.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 17:26:18 -0800 (PST)
- Errk. fignerz typin fasser den brainz. Yes. the higher output pump is better to get with a regulator, the pump is the same price, but then you add a $15 regulator on it (and a replacable insert, in-l
- /html/spridgets/1998-03/msg00459.html (8,520 bytes)
- 15. Re: Left Lane Cruiser! (score: 1)
- Author: Miq Millman <miq@teleport.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 00:11:24 -0800 (PST)
- This thread pulls me out of lurker status to tell the story of one of my first rides in my '61 Bugeye. I had driven the car up from Gilroy to Sunnyvale the day before, but my wife hadn't riden in the
- /html/spridgets/1998-02/msg00272.html (11,173 bytes)
- 16. Re: FS: Bugeye and Spridget parts (score: 1)
- Author: Miq Millman <miq@teleport.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 13:23:07 -0800 (PST)
- If you have no use for them, why on earth would you go through the trouble of picking them up in the first place? And furthermore, what possessed you do do this two more times? Where are you located?
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00412.html (7,834 bytes)
- 17. looking for engine (score: 1)
- Author: Miq Millman <miq@teleport.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 10:31:45 -0800 (PST)
- I've finally decided that I'd rather make Frankensprite into a BMC powered vehicle rather than a rotary monster. I sold the ported 12.5B rotary recently to a fellow that wants to drop it into a Porsc
- /html/spridgets/1997-11/msg00281.html (7,707 bytes)
- 18. Re: hood bag (score: 1)
- Author: Miq Millman <miq@teleport.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 00:08:56 -0800 (PST)
- I ordered the 5 speed kit from the flyer, they charged me 599 for it, but I called and then it was changed to 549. -- __ Miq Millman miq@teleport.com Tualatin, OR
- /html/spridgets/1997-11/msg00363.html (7,253 bytes)
- 19. Re: Fwd: bugeye tilt forward hood (score: 1)
- Author: Miq Millman <miq@teleport.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:32:54 -0800 (PST)
- Mini Mania (800) 94MANIA Has a kit in their monthly special until December 15th for $120. Haven't tried it, no connections to MM other than a customer. -- __ Miq Millman miq@teleport.com Tualatin, OR
- /html/spridgets/1997-11/msg00711.html (8,114 bytes)
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