- 221. Re: Shucks. (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 21:49:00 EDT
- Your situation hits rather close to home for yours truly. On the plus side, I now have a nice "thick-flange" alloy bellhousing for the Hardly Boys RaceSpit 4, so I can write off another 22 pounds (ab
- /html/fot/2000-09/msg00088.html (7,099 bytes)
- 222. Re: Spitfire overdrive gearbox questions (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:08:45 EDT
- Susan, if I read my John Kipping Triumph Spares catalogue correctly, the WH prefix indicates a Dolomite 1850 application. Glancing at the VTR Web site's table of "small car gear ratio sets" <http://w
- /html/fot/2000-09/msg00170.html (7,963 bytes)
- 223. Take it; it's free.... (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 20:25:07 EDT
- Sorry, this has virtually no real Triumph content, but I had to share it with someone. Earlier this spring, I retrieved a Triumph Mayflower parts car from about 200 miles away. In order to get it rol
- /html/fot/2000-08/msg00132.html (7,929 bytes)
- 224. Re: racing Vitesses (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:19:12 EDT
- I admit that I've always been curious as to WHY this all happened when it did. Presumably the Vitesse 2L was the only Triumph product that might even have come close to fitting neatly into a Trams-Am
- /html/fot/2000-08/msg00263.html (8,129 bytes)
- 225. Re: 4.3 ltr. Triumph (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:22:11 EDT
- sure Which, considering some of Triumph's postwar history, would truly bring things full circle. At various times there were discussions about such proposals as Standard-Triumph engines powering what
- /html/fot/2000-08/msg00348.html (8,559 bytes)
- 226. Re: Technical Question-TR3A Axle Conversion to TR4 (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:37:36 EDT
- under It just so happens that I have a smallish pile of TR3 and TR4 rear axles in my barn. From some very quick measurements, it appears that the actual increase in width is about 3", or 1.5" on each
- /html/fot/2000-08/msg00394.html (8,921 bytes)
- 227. Re: Technical Question-TR3A Axle Conversion to TR4 (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:58:11 EDT
- Uh, Freudian slip. That should have read "...Brad's TR3B, which I am storing for him...." --Andy
- /html/fot/2000-08/msg00396.html (8,569 bytes)
- 228. Re: Chassis Numbers for Spitfires (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 19:20:57 EDT
- to Cary, information I have indicates that FC22665L was the first Spitfire to be built in Calendar Year 1964. So it would appear that 22241 would've been built VERY LATE in Calendar Year 1963 and sol
- /html/fot/2000-07/msg00004.html (7,425 bytes)
- 229. Re: Photo Needed (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 21:39:45 EDT
- <bristol@megalink.net> Again, if you can help Jared, please reply directly to him. He is seeking a photo of a British Racing Green TR3A with a white top, black interior, and steel wheels w/ hubcaps.
- /html/fot/2000-07/msg00010.html (6,670 bytes)
- 230. Re: TR4A plugs (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:48:29 EDT
- beatin'. John Lye notes: working Then perhaps I shouldn't even mention that, for a number of years, the best plugs I could find in my bone-stock, autocrossing terror :-) of a GT6+ were AC plugs! And
- /html/fot/2000-07/msg00116.html (8,886 bytes)
- 231. Re: Preference research - FOT caps/Jackets - (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:04:04 EDT
- making keep Cary, FWIW, we already have someone on the list (Ted S.) whose business it is (well, one of his businesses) to produce such items. He's already done screen-printed shirts and might be per
- /html/fot/2000-07/msg00219.html (7,680 bytes)
- 232. Re: CHRIS BURKEY (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:13:20 EDT
- I'd second, but I'd like to hear more about Bill Clark and the Fairthorpe Electron. Is it a Minor? Is it Triumph 10/Herald/Spitfire engine power, as the Electron Minors usually are? Should we be cons
- /html/fot/2000-07/msg00229.html (6,890 bytes)
- 233. Re: Quick thought from weather wimp (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 11:49:47 EDT
- they a And so long as I live, I will never forget a quote we (ATA, the host club, members) heard from one attendee. As Dave Barry is so fond of saying, I swear I'm not making this up; the quote was r
- /html/fot/2000-06/msg00248.html (7,407 bytes)
- 234. Re: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:20:46 EST
- It's really easy to make buttons--I turn them from teflon. I hear delrin works also. I don't know why I haven't used them in a Triumph motor. I always use them in motorcycle engines. ==AM== I found s
- /html/fot/2006-03/msg00163.html (9,366 bytes)
- 235. Re: [FOT] Sabrina twin-cam (score: 1)
- Author: herald948@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:09:28 -0500
- Bill Dentin asked: ".......from recollection it had same dimensions as normal TR3 which it was, I know when I bought it it came on the Standard Vanguard saloon wheels, horrible steel things very narr
- /html/fot/2006-03/msg00213.html (9,438 bytes)
- 236. Re: [FOT] adjusting classic Koni shocks (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 08:21:35 EST
- Can some one give me an English explanation of how to tighten the classic Koni shock. The pictures without words supplied with the shocks leave a bit to the imagination. I can get the part about remo
- /html/fot/2006-03/msg00242.html (8,113 bytes)
- 237. Re: [FOT] RE: (FOT) Nomination; Jerry Barker (score: 1)
- Author: herald948@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:37:47 -0400
- I would like to nominate Jerry Barker for membership to the FOT. Jerry is a two time SCCA National Champion in Triumph Spitfires (1975 and 1980) a winner of the SCCA Kimberley Cup in 1980 and SCCA Ca
- /html/fot/2006-04/msg00050.html (7,854 bytes)
- 238. Re: [FOT] Re: 10 in Alfin Brake Drums (score: 1)
- Author: herald948@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 09:34:50 -0400
- They look more like Datsun 240Z drums, which are readily available. Alfin drums have more finning, are rarer, and are generally a whole lot more expensive. ==AM== Which leads to my question (having n
- /html/fot/2006-05/msg00027.html (8,222 bytes)
- 239. Re: [FOT] Grills for "Works" style TR4s on Ebay (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 08:24:38 EDT
- Don't get excited..... these aren't FROM a "works" car, they're just the appropriate grills from a Spitfire.... So if you're looking to make those little vents in your TR4/4A to look like the "works"
- /html/fot/2006-05/msg00058.html (8,049 bytes)
- 240. Re: [FOT] Expensive Spitfire thick flange aluminum bell housing (score: 1)
- Author: herald948@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 12:18:43 -0400
- I'm dealing with a gent out in west Arkansas that has an early Spitfire 3 synchro gearbox with aluminum bell housing on it.... That raises 2 questions. 1) What's an aluminum bell housing really worth
- /html/fot/2006-05/msg00084.html (7,488 bytes)
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