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101. Re: Going topless - but where do the windows go? (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:41:32 -0800 (PST); The soft top on British sports cars has always been a problem (according to period car mag articles). Depending on the direction of the wind relative to your car, speed at which you're moving and vol; /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00652.html (9,277 bytes)
102. Re: thrust washer lube (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:33:51 -0800 (PST); "So I asked my machine shop guy today and he said - he doesn't recommend doing this..." -- This is a different engine so it might be comparing apples to oranges. I can see the theoretical improvement; /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00716.html (8,499 bytes)
103. Re: Choke Cable (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:44:06 -0800 (PST); My ZS carb choke cable was too short. (it worked temporarily, the housing stretched tight as a drum, the distance from the fire-wall to the rear SU). I think my current choke cable came from a TR6. B; /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00718.html (7,515 bytes)
104. Re: Going topless - but where do the windows go? (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:12:15 -0800 (PST); After adding a piece of self-adhesive foam weatherstriping, I no longer had any issues with water coming in from the juncture of the soft-top/windshield cap plate. But I kept having a problem with a; /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00752.html (9,716 bytes)
105. Spitfire for sale (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:10:32 -0800 (PST); It's not my spitfire (not selling mine yet atleast). But there is a Spitfire on Rt.1 in Beltsville, Maryland that has a For Sale sign on it. I didn't see a contact number on it or a price. It's in fr; /html/spitfires/2002-01/msg00091.html (7,475 bytes)
106. Throw-out/clutch release bearing (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 10:02:08 -0800 (PST); In my "factory manual" to renew the clutch throw-out bearing the instruction says to remove the sleave assembly from the pivot housing (I don't remember the exact nomenclature) and to 'remove the bea; /html/spitfires/2001-12/msg00296.html (7,220 bytes)
107. Re: Crankcase Breather (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 09:14:55 -0800 (PST); My understanding of crankcase pressure is that you don't need a bottom end breather unless you remove the fuel pump and replace it with an electric pump and block-off plate. In such a case as you hav; /html/spitfires/2001-12/msg00447.html (6,779 bytes)
108. RE: Breaking down epoxy on a TR part (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 07:08:50 -0800 (PST); Epoxy Removal Kit marketed by Polysciences (cat. # 21487; $65.75; Fax: 1-800-343-3291) I've also heard that ethoxide (sodium hydroxide in ethanol) or Methylene Chloride (available as "Plastisolve" th; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00023.html (7,534 bytes)
109. Re: Fwd: Breaking down epoxy on a TR part (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:10:16 -0800 (PST); I really don't use many solvents. Acetone, goop off (citrus oil based) and paint stripper, are the extent of what I regularly use. The Aircraft stripper contains Methylene Chloride & Methanol, and sh; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00031.html (7,460 bytes)
110. Re: TTN Team Membership Drive Underway (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 16:33:17 -0800 (PST); The free sites are fine if: 1) you don't mind the space and extra time to load the banners that they put on your page. 2) You don't want a dedicated URL domain ("www.aol.com/rusticville/mainstreet/sp; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00065.html (8,246 bytes)
111. Re: spitfire quiz questions (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 06:10:37 -0800 (PST); Triumph Spitfire dot com has a trivia page, with such items as: Spitfire's "code name" when it was being built and tested for pre-production was "BOMB". (though, contrary to some DPO's, it wasn't due; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00109.html (9,381 bytes)
112. Re: spitfire quiz questions (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 06:29:40 -0800 (PST); By the way, the "Spitfire" chip by AMD is marketed under the name of Duron (not the paint company. It's the production name of the chip). Corvettes had swing springs? Whatchoo talkin' bout, Willis? -; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00112.html (8,210 bytes)
113. Another bit of spitfire trivia (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 06:37:45 -0800 (PST); The first Spitfire ever to roll off of the assembly lines in 1962 had front disc brakes. A feature not added to Jaguars costing three times the price of a Spitfire, for another 5 years! Cars like the; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00113.html (7,660 bytes)
114. Re: Another bit of spitfire trivia (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:00:41 -0800 (PST); Sorry for the misinformation. I'll try to locate where I'd copied that from. (It's got to be in one of my magazine reviews. Othwise I wouldn't have written it down as a verbatum quote.) As far as the; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00123.html (7,383 bytes)
115. It was just a joke! (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 14:00:25 -0800 (PST); Before too many more people email me and tell me I'm crazy for driving around with a 6' ladder over my head...or strapped to a car with a brand new paint job. I do use the car as a daily driver, And; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00186.html (7,422 bytes)
116. re: no reverse (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 17:02:11 -0800 (PST); I've heard that the reason Brits designed cars to have the "pull-up" motion to engage reverse is that it's the same ceps that are used to lift a pint. Maybe they figured that they (The British consum; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00237.html (7,354 bytes)
117. Re: wiring to the ignition circuit (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:16:41 -0800 (PST); I'm having a problem with that particular circuit. The fuel gauge drops by a quarter of a tank at highway speeds. It slowly comes back up when you drop the revs back to idle. Someone told me it was s; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00262.html (8,159 bytes)
118. Part identification (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:39:09 -0800 (PST); Someone with a 70's Spitfire parts catalog, I have a camshaft that I received with a 1500 engine, and assumed it was a 1500 camshaft. But looking closer it appears to have the numbers 25 and 224 on i; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00353.html (6,674 bytes)
119. Body number/Vin # (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:55:57 -0700 (PDT); There's a small 3" long by 1/2" tall number plate mounted on the driver's side bulkhead (near where the bonnet latch catch is) of my 1500. I noticed that when I removed all of my plates from my car t; /html/spitfires/2001-10/msg00096.html (7,152 bytes)
120. Spitfire Thrashing (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:46:53 -0700 (PDT); When I first started driving my spitfire I used to shift around 1000-1500 RPM (right off of idle right? Well, it idled really low back then <800). Today I still shift around 2000-2500 rpms and occasi; /html/spitfires/2001-10/msg00244.html (7,133 bytes)

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