- 121. Re: Non LBC - Ford Capri wanted (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 17:26:28 EDT
- If anyone has a line on a V6 Ford Capri in virtually any condition, would you pass the contact info along to me? The car is going to be used as a street car, not turned into a racer. I might even con
- /html/mgs/2004-04/msg00139.html (6,892 bytes)
- 122. Sticky Clutch Discs (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:41:15 EDT
- I woke the MGC up this weekend to start driving it over the summer, and damn it if the clutch disc hadn't welded itself to the flywheel. I tried to get it into gear, but the mere pressure of the sync
- /html/mgs/2004-04/msg00191.html (8,090 bytes)
- 123. You too can blow the ass off your MG...... (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 17:18:54 EDT
- _http://www.hotrodsetc.net/menu.html_ (http://www.hotrodsetc.net/menu.html) Look at the demo mpg's - I suppose it would discourage 'bumper sniffers' Bill
- /html/mgs/2004-04/msg00195.html (6,430 bytes)
- 124. RE: Cat & car video NOT FOR CAT LOVERS (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:02:49 EDT
- Yeah, but then you have to clean all the cat heads out of your car! :-) And if you had velour seat covers that would certainly be a cat-astrophe...... Bill
- /html/mgs/2004-04/msg00380.html (7,697 bytes)
- 125. Re: Cam Recommendation for MGB (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:16:40 EDT
- I will be installing this cam into a MGB engine with a +.020 overbore and a ported cylinder head with 1.625 inlet valves, peco exhaust, K&N filters and HIF carbs (but I have a Weber 45 DCOE and canno
- /html/mgs/2004-04/msg00440.html (8,512 bytes)
- 126. Re: Cam Recommendation for MGB (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:36:27 EDT
- Regarding compression ratio, you have to measure the volume of the swept cylinder and the combustion chamber when the engine is apart. I also have the slighlty dished h/c pistons which have a dish vo
- /html/mgs/2004-04/msg00556.html (8,148 bytes)
- 127. Re: Baking paint or paint baking, whatever. . . (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:45:53 EDT
- I'm looking for info/help on baking small painted parts in the kitchen oven. Temp., duration, etc. My best advice is to be sure she-who-must-be-obeyed is away when you try it. Bill
- /html/mgs/2004-04/msg00629.html (6,592 bytes)
- 128. Race Car for Sale (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:47:09 EST
- Spring is here and my 1963 TVR Grantura is going on the block. All safety mods, vintage eligible, needs minimal maintainance to be ready to race. $18K If you want a PDF document with details, let me
- /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00176.html (6,254 bytes)
- 129. Re: SU Carb identification (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:55:05 EST
- LOL - I'd have said the equivalent of a pair of fuzzy dice dangling from the mirror. I was trying to explain just yesterday to someone with stars in his eyes, obviously much taken with the bragging r
- /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00215.html (9,522 bytes)
- 130. Re: SU Carb identification (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:53:45 EST
- I see the Sixpack set-up that came on some Chryslers (I have one on one of my Jensens - 1200 cfm) buggered about all the time by people without a clue. The ONLY way they will work is with vacuum actu
- /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00231.html (8,426 bytes)
- 131. One of those Weeks (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:44:18 EST
- Bad week here mechanically. Was pruning something with a hand pruner using one hand but giving it some grunt. Snapped the pruners in half. Topped up the tank on the lawnmower (couldn't do any more pr
- /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00241.html (7,436 bytes)
- 132. Re: Car Alarms (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:24:31 EST
- Paul, I have to agree with you on this. Shooting somebody over a property crime is not only stupid, it's illegal. The inevitable result is that Bubba is going to make you his wife in prison. This mac
- /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00340.html (6,831 bytes)
- 133. Re: Miatas (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:09:36 EST
- (Also mentioned is a kit for putting Miata running gear in a B; but that seems counterintuitive. Isn't there already an MGB-sized roadster that uses Miata running gear? ;-) The Miata engine makes a f
- /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00367.html (6,518 bytes)
- 134. Re: making power above 3800 rpm? Webers (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:27:34 EST
- I've driven a couple of other cars with a Weber DCOE (don't recall if they were the model 45) on them and my experience is that low end power was lost and you had to rev the Hell out of them to get a
- /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00368.html (9,616 bytes)
- 135. Re: High Ratio Rockers (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:18:07 EST
- I've been reading Peter Burgess' book here and have been thinking about going for some high ratio rockers for my '70 MGB daily driver. I have a couple of questions that maybe some of the people out i
- /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00444.html (7,218 bytes)
- 136. Re:Shortened pushrods (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 02:03:38 EST
- On another thread, mention was made of shortening pushrods when the head is shaved. I would imagine that just taking a few thousandths off of the head to true it wouldn't be a problem. At what point
- /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00471.html (7,118 bytes)
- 137. Re: From wires to bolt-on (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:12:31 EST
- "I just wanted to be sure Dan had worked through all the economics of his inexpensive MiniLites." Please - there is no such thing as "inexpensive MiniLites". Minilite is a brand of expensive alloy wh
- /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00526.html (7,445 bytes)
- 138. Re: Splines (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:44:28 EST
- Well, look here, Paul, the only maintenance one can pull on the splines is to lubricate and inspect them them at regular intervals. Obviously, the wheel rotates on the hub a fraction of an inch each
- /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00582.html (7,402 bytes)
- 139. Re: Splines (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:40:17 EST
- "Uuuuusually that's held to be from the wheel trying to wobble on the splines rather than the fore and aft motion" Paul - why did you quote my post? I said nothing about that. You were commenting on
- /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00586.html (6,637 bytes)
- 140. Re: Wires (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:45:07 EST
- The hubs are interchangeable: I've done it many times Fronts only, are interchangeable between early and late, as I recall. They now have special hub adaptors to change steel to wire as well. Bill
- /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00600.html (6,392 bytes)
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