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201. Car alarms and vehicle lights (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 02:59:12 +0000; Since we have threads going on fused headlights and car alarms, I thought I'd merge them for a second. If you install a car alarm that flashes the parking lights, make sure you put a fuse in the lead; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01095.html (7,349 bytes)
202. MG gas mileage (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 02:59:12 +0000; Todd, 25-28 mpg with mostly freeway driving? That's about what mine gets, and I guess it's not terrible, but for a 1.8L, fairly low-performance four-banger, it ain't nothing to write home about. My; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01096.html (8,299 bytes)
203. product liability (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 02:59:12 +0000; Here's a little story to renew your faith in trial lawyers--yeah, I flew into a little airport in Jackson, MS last week, and asked the attendant at the FBO about buying 100 octane low-lead for use in; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01097.html (7,286 bytes)
204. Re: mgs@autox.team.net digest #10 Thu Jun 19 09:51:54 MDT 1997 (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 02:59:12 +0000; MDT 1997 r Chris, Bob at Brit-Tek has been very good to me, so I would take his advice as being reliable. As for the advance, my distributer loosened up on me once, and was a good 35 or 40 degrees ad; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01098.html (8,102 bytes)
205. Paint choices (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 02:59:11 +0000; Aron, I'm glad somebody else noticed this about white cars. What's the attraction? White shows dirt and pollution staining terribly, and even if you buff and wax it to within an inch of it's life, y; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01099.html (8,196 bytes)
206. Re: mgs@autox.team.net digest #13 Sun Jun 22 12:12:25 MDT 1997 (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 02:59:11 +0000; I agree that blaring car alarms have become pretty much ubiquitous these days, but I still think that given the choice between breaking into a car with an alarm and one without one, a thied will tak; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01100.html (8,154 bytes)
207. Joining wires. (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 02:59:12 +0000; Here's a handy hint when you want to tap a new wire into an existing length of wire. Rather than cut the existing wire and pig-tailing the three ends together, remove about a 1/2 inch from the exist; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01101.html (8,212 bytes)
208. Insurance (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 03:21:23 +0000; Rick, Absolutely correct about the documentation. When my wife's car ws broken into a month or so back, about $2300 of stereo equipment was stolen. State Farm had never seen the parts actually insta; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01307.html (7,615 bytes)
209. car alarms (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 03:21:23 +0000; Dan is absolutely right, though. Just make your car less attractive than the other cars, don't leave anything valuable in plain sight in the car, and hope for the best. The difference in protection b; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01308.html (7,021 bytes)
210. Lean = hot? (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 03:21:23 +0000; Bill, Just going to throw my W.A.G in here, but could it be that extra air in the mixture leads to more complete combustion, thus drawing more heat energy from the fuel? This might also explain why; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01309.html (7,191 bytes)
211. Spark and idle? (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 03:21:23 +0000; I have no clue as to how timing would affect idle, but even so, I would think that if the weak spark was simulating a retarded timing setting, that the new, hotter spark would RAISE the idle. At lea; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01310.html (7,470 bytes)
212. Brakes (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 03:21:23 +0000; Aron, Good point. I also read somewhere that you can spend thousands of dollars on brake upgrades and not really get the car to stop much faster from any given speed. What you're buying is protectio; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01311.html (7,924 bytes)
213. Blowing a piston (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 03:21:23 +0000; Aron, Maybe you can help clear up a fuzzy picture in my mind. When you hear of somebody missing a shift and "airmailing a piston through the hood", is this just a figure of speech? What is the physi; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01312.html (7,687 bytes)
214. hp/liter advances? (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 03:21:23 +0000; Can anyone tell me what the changes have been in the last hundred years that allow a constantly increasing output from a given-size engine? I'm not interested in turbocharging or supercharging in thi; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01313.html (7,975 bytes)
215. Brakes and speed (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 03:21:23 +0000; I don't know who wrote this part of the thread, but I'm curious now. How can any engine produce twice the stock power and have a lower top speed? I guess it's possible that if the powerband distribu; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01314.html (7,852 bytes)
216. Pink (and other) colors (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 03:21:24 +0000; Maybe there's a rarely-ordered "Porsche Pink" we've just never heard of! ;) An "exotic dancer" at a club in Arlington, Texas had (has)? a Porsche 928 painted in approximately "Mary Kay" Pink with a; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01315.html (7,528 bytes)
217. failure-prone tires? (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 03:21:24 +0000; This isn't really related to Cooper tires, but funny nonetheless. My parents bought a Cadillac Fleetwood Broughm new in 1985. Not quite a limousine, but it's the model they made the limousines out o; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01316.html (7,333 bytes)
218. MGB reliability (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 03:21:24 +0000; David, David! You were the one that argued with me IN FAVOR of the MGB's reliability! What happened? Seriously, though, I've amended my previous attitude, partly because of the discussion we had ear; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01317.html (7,412 bytes)
219. double-gasketing? (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 03:21:24 +0000; I know this practice is fairly common with American V-8's but don't know of any examples with MGBs that supposedly leak just fine with one gasket. I would stick the two together with a spray adhesiv; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01318.html (7,546 bytes)
220. gas mileage (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 03:21:24 +0000; Jay, I get about 23-25 in city. Part of this may be that the carb is older than the car and may need replacing. Also, my compression ratio is really low and I think the engine was overcammed for the; /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01319.html (7,420 bytes)

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