Tom,
Hi. Thanks for your reply.
There is/was ( I'm told by the quickest Alpine racer in Oz, who spent enough
$'s to get one several years ago from the U.K.) a 3.77 diff ratio.
Availability today is probably only legend, & then has to be made into an
LSD, but he's got one in his race car. It's so effective he's thrown out the
o/drive, has a good c/ratio box & can run with the MGB's. It was built here
at GREAT cost by a very respected name in top level competition rear ends
out here: do you want contact details to go through the Alpine owner?
A few of us here have built a oil pump & high lift roller rocker, etc mods
for racing which we thought we should make known to Alpine racers, so I'll
list them on the Alpine web in the next few days or so to (possibly) help
fellow racers. And streeters.
Re 10 tooth on 35, I'll ask around the "knowing ones" here.
Re bits I'm looking for, I'm desperate for 42mm Webers x 2.
Cheers
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Wiencek <wiencek@anl.gov>
To: R. BOULTER <boultsoz@bigpond.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 2:37 AM
Subject: Re: Documentation wanted (fwd)
Good luck on your search. I'm sorry I can not help but I was just wondering
what Rootes car had a 3.77 rear end? Does the gear set bolt into a stock
Alpine differential?
I am looking for a 3.70 gear set for my Sunbeam Alpine. Do you know of any
for sale? Do you know if you can put a 10 tooth pinion on the standard 35
tooth Alpine ring? If you know any differential experts, I would appreciate
their e-mail addresses. Also, I parted out many Alpines and two 69-70
Alpine GT's and have a
box of parts. Is there anything you are looking for? Thank you.
Tom
On 1/15/01, R. BOULTER <boultsoz@bigpond.com> wrote:
Hello all,
As a racer of an Alpine in Australia I'm very interested in John Boyd's plea
for help re 14 inch wheels.
Here, as everywhere else in the world, our scourge is not the Porsches /
TVR's / Alfas / Healeys / Morgans / Ginettas / Datsun 2000's & 240's / Jags
/ Fiats / etc but the hordes of never historically competitive but now weber
sprouting (Alpines can't in Australia), carbon fibre pushrodded, over
square, detroit locker wearing, (bloody) MGB's that have 14 inch wheels, but
worse still are about to be allowed 15 inch wheels because Yokohama is about
to stop production of 14 inch R series tyres!
Us Antipodean Alpiners need you to find this info to keep these Johnny Come
Lately's at bay.
HELP!! Please.
If we can get 14 inch wheels we can stop looking for J type overdrives or
3.77 diffs, we can match them in a straight line at less than 8000 revs, &
we can get 15'' wheels (with 4.1 diffs!). We really need that top end boogy.
A bottle of REALLY good Aussie red wine to the winner of this competition,
plus tickets to one of our big Historic race meetings (about
350competitors). John will tell you that the Kiwis make great white wine -
& he's right. So maybe its worth an Anzac 2 pack!
Cheers
Bob Boulter
----- Original Message -----
From: T.J. Higgins <tjhiggin@chris.iss.ingr.com>
To: Alpines <alpines@autox.team.net>; Tigers <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 7:49 AM
Subject: Documentation wanted (fwd)
> assitance required for proof that 14"x7" wheels were avaliable in
> 1965, which could fit sunbeam alpine/tiger. we are currently racing a
> car with such wheels but to be legal we must have some documentation
> that they could have been purchased in 1965.
>
> please contact me on hytc@voyager.co.nz
>
> John Boyd
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