- 1. [FOT] NOS Sheet metal offered & parts (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:20:26 -0500
- After being relegated to mid pack for the past few years and finally getting the chaos level in my life reduced (no longer working 70 hours @ week!) the need to build a new race engine for the arrivi
- /html/fot/2006-02/msg00198.html (8,124 bytes)
- 2. RE: TR3 Steering Rack (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:23:00 -0500
- The fiberglass panels would definately NOT be allowed. The rack and pinion might be able to be snuck through, but likely would cause one a "trip to the woodshed" once it was noticed. Russ Moore == un
- /html/fot/2006-01/msg00324.html (7,020 bytes)
- 3. RE: Leak down testing (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:33:57 -0500
- The only proper way to test is at operating temperature. The differences between 50 degrees and 180+ are major when looking at the engine as a complete system. Russ Moore == unsubscribe/change addres
- /html/fot/2006-01/msg00453.html (6,743 bytes)
- 4. RE: [FOT] GT6 versus TR6 differential (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:41:37 -0500
- I don't see how it would. The TR-6 diff is significantly larger than the GT-6/Spitfire diff. Russ Moore
- /html/fot/2006-03/msg00228.html (6,594 bytes)
- 5. RE: [FOT] adjusting classic Koni shocks (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 07:48:00 -0500
- Yes, there is typically a rubber "bumper" up in the top shield that you need to remove so you can fully collapse the shock. Most of the time there's a little hole on the top cover so you can poke som
- /html/fot/2006-03/msg00247.html (7,643 bytes)
- 6. RE: [FOT] Questions (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:50:37 -0500
- Corvettes have used fiberglas springs for years, I believe ever since the introduction of the C-4 in 1984. Russ
- /html/fot/2006-03/msg00316.html (6,700 bytes)
- 7. RE: [FOT] Sad news from Mosport (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:36:24 -0400
- Yes, she is the one. I've known her family for 10 years and they're nice folks. I have told Cindy in the past, she was racing for the wrong reasons. Russ --Original Message-- From: owner-fot@autox.te
- /html/fot/2006-06/msg00226.html (7,761 bytes)
- 8. RE: [FOT] Fuel Pressure (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:51:45 -0400
- running 2.0 to 2.5 should be fine. That's what I have used to feed two HS-4s on a high reving 1296 Spitfire. Russ Moore Another elementary question: What fuel pressure is the list using for the origi
- /html/fot/2006-07/msg00358.html (7,478 bytes)
- 9. RE: [FOT] New TR frames (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:03:52 -0400
- Mordy, with all due respect, having the engine stay together so you don't get to see all those fancy detailed parts is NOT a bad thing. Actually, not seeing the frame is also not a bad thing because
- /html/fot/2006-09/msg00217.html (7,735 bytes)
- 10. Re: [Fot] TR3B in Vermont-Need someone to take a peek. (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:08:04 -0500
- Larry Rossi, fellow vintage racer lives up there and before he started racing Formula Ford, was up to his neck in a TR-4. You may have his contact info from some of the reunions. I can dig through my
- /html/fot/2006-12/msg00301.html (8,045 bytes)
- 11. Re: [Fot] Summers Brothers Axle Failures? (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:08:14 -0500
- We have 4 of us up here running them; all of them the later style(they're like art work!) and no failures of any kind. Kent Bain pushes 165 hp through his and has no failures. Avoid any axle setup wi
- /html/fot/2007-01/msg00186.html (9,261 bytes)
- 12. [Fot] Assistance requested (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:35:26 -0400
- Maybe a year or so ago there were some threads on a supplier that had some thicker than normal manifold gaskets for Spitfire and I also believe TR-6 engines. This was in the context of solving the at
- /html/fot/2007-03/msg00026.html (7,054 bytes)
- 13. Re: [Fot] Assistance requested (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:53:09 -0400
- sorry for the typo, I meant aeration problem. Leaking of air through the gasket material Russ _______________________________________________ Fot mailing list Fot@autox.team.net http://autox.team.net
- /html/fot/2007-03/msg00028.html (7,412 bytes)
- 14. Re: [Fot] EGT readings (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:10:46 -0400
- I target 1350 but only at the end of a straight, Anything else I ignore. When I ran stock pistons 1400 degrees was the fear point. Your situation may be different. This was on a 1296 Spitfire comfort
- /html/fot/2007-06/msg00056.html (8,363 bytes)
- 15. Re: [Fot] Spitfire Headers (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:06:46 -0400
- Stahl is the only way to go! Anything else is a waste of money. The stock Mk2 is not bad for an 1147, but you'll never regret the Stahl once you put it on. You will need to cut out a portion of the b
- /html/fot/2007-06/msg00125.html (8,253 bytes)
- 16. Re: [Fot] Was Beaverun, now Mosport (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:06:28 -0400
- I second the motion. I would have been there but for the poor judgement of a Sprite jockeyess last year on turn eight. The car is still in progress. I hope to have it back in time to run the Septembe
- /html/fot/2007-06/msg00160.html (9,166 bytes)
- 17. Re: [Fot] Can radial and bias race tires be mixed successfully? (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 18:10:16 -0400
- Well, I watched Mike Jackson run his TR-3 at Mosport a couple of years ago on one radial and one bias on the rear axle. Seems he was lean on good rubber and reverted to whatever he had. I cannot conf
- /html/fot/2007-08/msg00098.html (10,306 bytes)
- 18. [Fot] eBay-Buyers beware! (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:06:24 -0400
- It's been my finding of late Ebay listings are more deceptive than ever before, no reference to this recent thread. I won two auctions in the recent past where the goods were paid for but never deliv
- /html/fot/2007-08/msg00280.html (7,242 bytes)
- 19. Re: [Fot] TR6 Convertible top install question (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:43:46 -0500
- Avoid any rubber product made in China. We've had rapid failures of everything from door gaskets, steering rack boots, rod end boots, etc.. Its worth the extra little bit to get the better quality pr
- /html/fot/2007-12/msg00188.html (8,608 bytes)
- 20. [Fot] Spitfire Video (score: 1)
- Author: "Russ Moore" <rem9@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:12:57 -0500
- Sigh...I still remember paying a local tow outfit $25 to bring me the free TR4 a friend was giving me. Yeah, the body was pretty rusty, but it was an almost fully-optioned car: wire wheels, Michelin
- /html/fot/2008-02/msg00287.html (9,009 bytes)
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