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81. Overdrive/tranny matching (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 14:23:39 +1100; First, thanks to all who answered my Rusty Block enquiry. Next, my Series 3 has original non-synchro-1st gearbox plus o/d. I have been offered an all-synchro 'box from a later series. Will the o/d fr; /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00057.html (7,289 bytes)
82. Rootes Racing - No Alpine Content (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 08:52:47 +1100; For those listers with a wider interest in Rootes vehicles, I have written an article on the history of rootes Racing at Bathurst (Aus). Pete Chadbund has published it on his website, follow the link; /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00072.html (7,068 bytes)
83. Re: The big question (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 14:34:31 +1100; Gee, and I always thought the big question was why Americans had left hand drive... cheers Vic; /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00078.html (7,706 bytes)
84. Re: The big question (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 08:10:22 +1100; My father was fond of telling me that when the Japanese were opening up theie nation early last century, coming out of the feudal age, they sent people all 'round the world to see how others did thin; /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00104.html (8,381 bytes)
85. Re: 1900cc??? (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 08:27:08 +1100; Of course it might still be worth getting the transmission and propshaft, because it would not be all that hard to find a stock bore 1725 (or 1600) and restore some originality Vic; /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00106.html (7,650 bytes)
86. Overdrive/Tranny (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 08:34:27 +1100; Thanks to all for the advice. I'm going to stick with the original non-sync + o/d Cheers Vic, double de-clutching 1st and cruising the highways; /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00107.html (6,337 bytes)
87. Re: Overdrive/tranny matching (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:06:48 +1100; Hi Paul and all I'd appreciate getting ideas on this enquiry too as my tranny will need rebuilding at some stage (noisy + jumps out of third). Good to see you're keeping it Paul. I saw an S3 from Sou; /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00126.html (8,138 bytes)
88. Re: celebrity Alpines (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:51:39 +1100; I think Ritchie Benaud may have owned an Alpine in the 1980s. Do you want to explain to the Americans who he is? Cheers Vic; /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00161.html (7,889 bytes)
89. Re: Cricket (was Celebrity Alpines, now almost entirely OT) (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:32:41 +1100; Yes that's true Scott, and I've yet to resolve whether the Plymouth (a younger the Sunbeam Alpine) was named after the bug or the ancient and noble English game. Cricket (the game) was devised by the; /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00234.html (7,166 bytes)
90. Re: series 3 fuel grommet (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:05:58 +1100; I was able to successfully modify a rubber grommet (produced for some other purpose) that I purchased from a Clark Rubber (Australia) store. It's not perfect but it's a neat tidy fit and will do the; /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00325.html (7,647 bytes)
91. Re: 1958 berkeley (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:57:25 +1100; That must have been a pretty radical conversion. The 1958 Berkeley had a 328 stroke Excelsior motorcycle engine with chain drive to the front wheels. http://www.pearsies.btinternet.co.uk/page4.htm Pr; /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00340.html (7,856 bytes)
92. Re: Crank (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 08:36:05 +1100; Astonishingly, this is one part that the DPO had NOT replaced/lost on my car Vic S3 (formerly wrong gas cap, wrong oil cap, wrong brake drum retainer nuts, wrong horn ring, various missing rubber bit; /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00352.html (7,772 bytes)
93. Re: Help me decide!! (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 09:27:00 +1100; I vote for chrome! I was around in the '60s and '70s and the hottest looking wheel you could put on a sports car was chrome wires. Not 'original' for sure, but a suitable improvement that is not anac; /html/alpines/2002-01/msg00011.html (8,331 bytes)
94. Re: and the winner is... (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 08:58:57 +1100; In my humble opinion there is one uglier although less well known - the Bolwell Ikara http://www.bolwellcarclub.com.au/markix.htm Oddly, Bolwell also made one of the more attractive sports cars, the; /html/alpines/2002-01/msg00073.html (7,666 bytes)
95. Re: Toyota w58 5spd Transmission (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:31:47 +1100; Hi Chuck OK, to better answer your question, the connection between Toyota transmissions, Sunbeams, Jaguars (and lots of other makes) is that lots of people like to transplant the Toyo Tranny into th; /html/alpines/2002-01/msg00133.html (8,686 bytes)
96. Index of Thermal Efficiency (ITE) (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 13:57:14 +1100; The 1961 formula for the ITE was recently on the Tiger List and having plugged it into Excel I have been playing about with numbers in it. However, I need two (of the following three) things to give; /html/alpines/2002-01/msg00181.html (7,302 bytes)
97. Rusted Block (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:19:18 +1100; Alpinists and Hillmanites Having traced a water leak to a corrosion hole in the bottom of number 1 cylinder of my series 3 Alpine, I took my block to an engine rebuilder who removed the sleeves fitte; /html/alpines/2002-01/msg00224.html (7,170 bytes)
98. Re: Index of Thermal Efficiency (ITE) (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:44:11 +1100; Thanks for this and your other post to the list. After putting some numbers into the ITE formula I think that they are talking US mpg. The reason is: The 1.2 litre Lotus Elite that won the ITE in 19; /html/alpines/2002-01/msg00243.html (7,694 bytes)
99. Re: Index of Thermal Efficiency (ITE) (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 10:37:30 +1100; So what happened between 1960 when the Lotus was eligible and 1961? Did they change the homologation numbers? Elites in both years were described as 'Mk14's so I would have thought them to pretty mu; /html/alpines/2002-01/msg00269.html (7,135 bytes)
100. Re: Stripping Paint (score: 1): Author: Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>; Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:56:42 +1100; This has come up before and it seems every lister has their own favourite method and reasons to support it. For myself, I have had 2 cars stripped to bare metal, one by sand-blasting, the other by be; /html/alpines/2001-12/msg00156.html (9,468 bytes)

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