- 21. Re: CFR engine (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 10:57:20 -0700
- It's a single-cylinder engine on which the cylinder bore is mounted on adjustable threaded rods. Turn the rods one way, the cylinder head moves up away from the crank and the combustion chamber gets
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00789.html (8,743 bytes)
- 22. Cottage Industries (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 16:59:58 -0700
- Actually, what the Brits always did best automotively is still very much alive -- cottage industries, as the subject line indicates. There are dozens of small companies churning out a handful of spor
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00806.html (13,489 bytes)
- 23. Light Headed (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:23:02 -0700
- And the perfect segue to the story of Eddie Maher and the Engine That Never Was! In the mid-Sixties -- about the time Spridges were getting 1275s instead of 1098s -- Honda was making a first pass at
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00903.html (11,430 bytes)
- 24. Re: Light Headed (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 12:11:49 -0700
- I've chatted with Stan about this (oh, he runs FASPEC Racing, for those who don't connect the name with the catalog; neat guy, very quick early Sebring Sprite with mostly standard bodywork) informall
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01023.html (10,894 bytes)
- 25. Re: Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:42:06 -0700
- Not to sound like Oscar Wilde, but that is also the *worst* thing about autocross. :-) At least at the beginning, when you drive the wheels off your car and someone in the same kind of car is ten sec
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01112.html (10,197 bytes)
- 26. Re: Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 14:16:45 -0700
- Yes. Do the bodywork last. (Structural rust repairs not included.) Start with suspension and tires, then engine work, then gearing. You will have more fun, learn more, and eventually drive faster in
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01121.html (20,293 bytes)
- 27. Re: Loctite? (was: Lock tabs vs lock washers) (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 18:11:41 -0700
- They knew what they were doing -- for the time. But there have been some improvements in materials science and automotive engineering since 1956. I mean, they didn't use alternators on Bugeyes either
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01134.html (11,818 bytes)
- 28. Re: Dead Midget - Help! (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 17:45:07 -0700
- Then that sounds like what's wrong. :-) Of if not through the battery, then it's not getting contact through one or more of the things the battery connects to. There's a series of free and simple (we
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01237.html (10,906 bytes)
- 29. Re: Bleeding Brake failure (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 16:10:33 -0700
- Feh. For a seriously deranged set of homonyms, go here: http://www.living-history.org/lemon_seymour.html No, I don't have a program that does that, it was years of weirdness... my best guess is that
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01433.html (9,344 bytes)
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