- 61. Spit Trip (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 22:43:42 +0100
- Hi Aviators I'm going on a 240 mile round trip to Hay-on-Wye this weekend in the Spitfire to meet an old friend from Llanidloes (I think this is where the TSSC was last week end). At 120 miles a jour
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00200.html (7,721 bytes)
- 62. Re: Vanishing Water. (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 23:51:43 +0100
- Is your water dissapering into the expansion bottle, or just dissapering It it's goes in to the bottle and dosent return there might be a leak in your cooling system which only shows it's self when y
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00234.html (10,371 bytes)
- 63. Re: What is joy (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 23:13:41 +0100
- Two things, First I won't here a word said againsed the 1493 Spitfire engin, it's the best one of the lot. Although the MkIII had 4 more bhp it also had 2 more seconds on the 0-60. The stock UK 1500
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00235.html (9,090 bytes)
- 64. Back from the trip (long sort of car indurence report thing) (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 23:50:20 +0100
- Hi just to say I am back from the Trip, I ended up doing 338 miles, averageing 34.8 MPG over the weekend. Considering the mountinus region, single track roads, how many welsh drivers you need to over
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00324.html (10,302 bytes)
- 65. Re: clutch bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:59:19 +0100
- Also, how much fluid does it normally take to bleed a clutch? I would recon on about 2L of clutch fluid should do you. You can lessen this by taking the pinch bolt out and temporeraly sliding the who
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00325.html (7,504 bytes)
- 66. Re: clutch bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 23:28:35 +0100
- I have torqued the clutch up on my car and didn't get any clutch slippage, so I suspect you will need to investigate this. Might be a problem with the the diaphram spring. Mabe thats half stuck not
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00366.html (7,827 bytes)
- 67. Re: Late Spit Dash Plaque (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 23:15:24 +0100
- Whell I have searched my whole font catolog for that name, cant find it. And thats 2500 fonts, so I would say that it's like hens teath. Is the font for making up the sticker? This sticker was not o
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00367.html (7,170 bytes)
- 68. Oil Chainge (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:39:25 +0100
- Hi there, Just to say monday I did my 3000 mile after engin rebuild, thats 2500 miles and the oil was black. Kind of expected that, I also had a leaking sump gasket, which was getting worse. So I des
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00406.html (7,590 bytes)
- 69. Re: Back from the trip (long sort of car endurence report thing) (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 22:24:49 +0100
- oh, and as far as the radiator and over heating problems go, i should have wrote this earlier, i did a project for my heat and mass transfer class while in university on the effectiveness of the spit
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00407.html (9,760 bytes)
- 70. Re: Pertronix dwell spec needed! (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:28:56 +0100
- I'm planning to make my own electronic ingition for the Spit. So from what you are saying, I could quite easly chainge it from having a dwell angle to having a dwell time, always fixed dwell period o
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00449.html (7,255 bytes)
- 71. Re: Easiest Engine To Fit (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:21:15 +0100
- First off, I have noproblem with cutting out the 1500 motor and putting in somthing more potant than you can tune the 1500 to. I have looked into this myself. I would say that fitting any other moto
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00450.html (11,498 bytes)
- 72. Re: [resend] Re: my turn to ask for help (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 23:38:35 +0100
- Not dificult to do when I type in Spitlist for the spitfire list my mailer program always trys to mail Joe as first choise and the actual list as second. Mabe Joe should chaing his email address, Sp
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00464.html (7,558 bytes)
- 73. Re: Plasma Ignition (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 22:39:58 +0100
- I assume other people would be wondering what this is so: Plasma ignition is where instead of a single spike of HT voltage you get a train (serise) of smaller spikes. So you strike a spark, then you
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00521.html (7,801 bytes)
- 74. Mig Welders Again (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 18:56:32 +0100
- Hi Just to say, I've done it, I have got myself a MIG. Descided to pay for the car insurance in 10 installment, £509 quid for me a 12K miles a year. PS tubular manifold makes no difference to the c
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00522.html (7,921 bytes)
- 75. Gas Flowing (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:13:48 +0100
- Any good books on tuning, and gas flowing of cars. I want to know how they grind away the metal in the cylinder heads James.
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00548.html (6,352 bytes)
- 76. New Book (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:38:19 +0100
- Hi there, Just to say, I've got a realy good book from Amazon, Chassis Engineering, by Herb Adams. Sort of explains a lot about the Spitfires handleing, how it hugs the road until the rear starts to
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00620.html (7,104 bytes)
- 77. Re: Triumph Spitfire Conversions (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 23:04:27 +0100
- Ok, all Spitfires need an overdrive, because they are so much cooler than 5 speed. I have only just got it, but my confidence in the car for long trips has gone up. I would not be with out it! For e
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00621.html (8,766 bytes)
- 78. Re: Electrical Loom question (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:54:05 +0100
- Having been there my self, rebuilding the harness will be realy dificult, you have to get the correct angles of bends in 3D, plus all the correct mesurements. A new wiring loom is a complete waste of
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00622.html (8,179 bytes)
- 79. Re: Ground Clearance (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:42:14 +0100
- The low point of the exhaust, just Don't know, depends if it's standard or not. Take out the DPO bodges from the exhaust system. Although the ground clearence of the spitfire is suposed to be 4 inche
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00623.html (6,903 bytes)
- 80. Re: ROBSON - page 10, August 99 Triumph World (score: 1)
- Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 22:18:42 +0100
- As a younger reader, I don't read those parts of the Mag unless I am suffering from insomnia. I read the main glossy articles, the news, all the running reports, and maybe the final page and down und
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00663.html (8,901 bytes)
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