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161. Re: Cam Bearings (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 20:50:24 +0100; I personaly use the old chipfat from the local fryer. Why pay for oil when you can get it for free :-); /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00574.html (7,048 bytes)
162. Re: ZS carb question! - long-winded response, part 2 (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:11:14 +0100; One thing I would say, the car does not do to well with no oil in the dampner. Take it out then try and keep a constent speed, try to maintain 3000 rpm in 2nd. I can garintee people with think your a; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00575.html (8,564 bytes)
163. Re: pistons (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:59:26 +0100; If you can feel a lip arround the top of the bour after a decoke you need a rebour. If so you then need new pistons. Oversized rings are a big mistake, these dont make the scirt on the piston bigger; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00576.html (8,317 bytes)
164. Re: Engine Swaps Again (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:24:50 +0100; If your after an off road Spit, don't I have a much better idea. You get an offroad car and produce a Spit body kit for it. You then make and sell this. Afther that you buy and island and retire. Saf; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00577.html (9,310 bytes)
165. Re: Gear box tunnel padding (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:11:10 +0100; Joe is the stuff you are refiring to foam space filler? The stuff recomended on that VW site. Got from DIY stores. If so cool I know what you meen by it :-) My one consern with all of these heat insu; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00578.html (9,256 bytes)
166. Re: Yugo (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 20:18:40 +0100; One of the more excentic people I know from work as number 103 of a 110 car line developed by Scoda for ralying. 2L straight six, I think one choke per cylinder. RWD 5 speed redlines in every gear. B; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00656.html (8,475 bytes)
167. Re: [Fwd: RE: Tunnel padding] (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 20:01:16 +0100; Is you manifold painted black, white or rust red. White is probebly the best colour of exhaust insulation because it does not radiate inferred. Next to insulation this is the best method of keeping; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00657.html (9,097 bytes)
168. Re: Engine Swaps (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:16:24 +0100; Unfortunatly they never put a 2.5PI engin in a GT6. UK was stuck with more or less the same car as the USA. 2.0 carbed. Generating 110 ish BHP. I believe the recomended maximum for a stock Spitfire; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00658.html (9,824 bytes)
169. Re: Unleaded Update (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 20:38:29 +0100; My unleaded conversion is running well, although since changing the points I have got some pinking again. Need to get out there with the strobe again. Probably running about 15 BTDC. Or the quality o; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00678.html (7,713 bytes)
170. Re: Electrical questions/problem (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 20:18:33 +0100; The quickes test of your altinators condition is to start the engin, turn on the lights, rev the engin to > 1500 rpm. At which point it's safe to assume the altinator is giving out enough current, th; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00679.html (8,550 bytes)
171. Re: What Relay for Adding a Fan (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 02:06:33 +0100; I have thrown away my engine driven fan and replaced it with an electric one. My one was purchased for the sum of Ł3 from my local scrap yard. It was originally from an Austin Maestro, a worthy sac; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00733.html (10,213 bytes)
172. Super Spitfire (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:03:20 +0100; Anyway of supercharging a Spitfire cheaply. I am looking at this for a future upgrade! Thanks James; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00734.html (6,312 bytes)
173. Tub repair (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:23:07 +0100; Here's a question for all of you who have done a complete overhaull. How much work is there in stripping most of the tub to bear metal. Replaceing the sills if nessecery at least taking them apart an; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00742.html (8,260 bytes)
174. Re: Thermostat Differences and dumb things (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:26 +0100; For triumphs you can get these thermostats. 82 degrees in two degree steps to 70 degrees. There are arguments to weather it makes cooling better or worse with our without the thermostat. I reckon the; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00743.html (9,533 bytes)
175. Re: emblems (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:04:10 +0100; Whilest in Noway last year, I mucked up my unusual tourist routine and actualy went into one of thoes tacky shops. Where I purchased a famly of Mooses (what is the collective nown and plural for moos; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00744.html (7,792 bytes)
176. Re: Tub repair (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:34:03 +0100; Thanks for all the responces. All I would like to add to this is that for the most part the pannels have surface rust. But the DPO did a bodge job of the respray and under almost all the surfaces the; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00777.html (6,834 bytes)
177. Re: Spit wiper motor ?? (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 00:07:11 +0100; One trick if connections are OK, run it. Lift the wipers off the screen, flip them up. Put a ceap non automatic battery charger on the wiring loom to supply power, and turn on the wipers for half an; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00815.html (7,938 bytes)
178. Page restyle (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:11:45 +0100; Just to say I have restyled my page, and put some more content up. Not use proof read but I'll get round to it at somepoint. :-) http://www.crosswinds.net/oxford/~jcarpenter; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00816.html (6,500 bytes)
179. Re: Electrical problems Still! (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 19:21:45 +0100; Before you compleatly rip your harness apart, remove the insulation tape, but immediatly you come to a branch get some tape and wrap it arround. You don't want to loose the shape. Curves in the harne; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00822.html (7,054 bytes)
180. Ignition Advance (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>; Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 23:22:33 +0100; Hi all, Questions probebly more suted to the racers among you! My current dizzy is a contact braker system, which has seen better days. So a while ago I got a Lucas 62DM4 distributer from a scrap yar; /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00823.html (7,930 bytes)

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