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RE: Engine and Transmission

To: "Spridgets@Autox. Team. Net (E-mail)" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Engine and Transmission
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:22:59 -0700charset="iso-8859-1"
My logic is as follows.

If you save one, you can hack one. Just chose appropriate examples for
either senario.
Has to be at a 1:1 ratio though.

69 sprite = restoration.
69 Midget = hack.



|>> -----Original Message-----
|>> From:       Trevor Boicey [SMTP:tboicey@brit.ca]
|>> Sent:       Monday, October 23, 2000 8:30 PM
|>> To: ryan marro
|>> Cc: Daniel1312@aol.com; robert@woozy.com; toyman@digitex.net;
|>> spridgets@autox.team.net
|>> Subject:    Re: Engine and Transmission
|>> 
|>> ryan marro wrote:
|>> >  Never having known
|>> > any of the Healeys personnally, I can't speak with 
|>authority, but I
|>> doubt
|>> > that they would still be building their cars with a 948cc 
|>engine these
|>> days.
|>> 
|>>   I think that's the fundamental "discontuity" in the logic.
|>> 
|>>   The Healey is not a car of today. It's a car of yesteryear,
|>> and that's what's wonderful about it, and they "ain't making
|>> any more".
|>> 
|>>   To try to put a modern engine into it because "Donald would
|>> do it today" would imply that you are trying to modernize
|>> the car. If you want a new car, you are likely better off to
|>> just buy one, because after the engine and tranny swap
|>> the braking and suspension is going to be horribly out
|>> of place.
|>> 
|>>   90% of these projects die. Strangely, a lot of them are
|>> completed until they are driveable and even usable, but that's
|>> about the time reality strikes and the illusion of the
|>> dream is shattered by the reality.
|>> 
|>>   Eventually, it all ends up in a stack of boxes as another
|>> unfinished project.
|>> 
|>> -- 
|>> Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
|>> Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
|>> ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
|>> "Wanna see me comb my hair really fast?" - Johnny Bravo
|>

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