- 1. Cover me! (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 08:20:48 -0600
- Hi Guys, A buddy wants to go to the later 289 HiPo water pump for his 260. Frankly, it has been so long since I fooled with a 260, I have forgotten what the difference between the 289-early 302 timin
- /html/tigers/2002-01/msg00351.html (6,778 bytes)
- 2. ww1 a/c (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:02:45 -0500
- Actually, most WW1 aircraft used water cooled engines such as the Liberty. The Rhone rotary, which you mention, was a rather weird exception, not having a throttle at all, merely a "blip switch". The
- /html/tigers/2001-09/msg00072.html (7,620 bytes)
- 3. Re: ww1 a/c (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:14:35 -0500
- Nice try. The Smithsonian records indicate that the Liberty was the most produced WW 1 engine...water cooled. So many were produced that they were common after the war used in everything from autos t
- /html/tigers/2001-09/msg00078.html (7,962 bytes)
- 4. Re: ww1 a/c (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:54:01 -0500
- I agree, a most entertaining engine. I flew an old aircraft with one of the units......tough to land! No wonder so many of those guys bought it! At least the planes landed at a lower speed then. Best
- /html/tigers/2001-09/msg00084.html (7,936 bytes)
- 5. Re: ww1 a/c (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:54:33 -0500
- One more aside...the "rotary" engines we are discussing are not Wankel type rotary engines, merely a radial-of-sorts air cooled engine whose crankshaft was bolted to the airframe, and crankcase was b
- /html/tigers/2001-09/msg00085.html (8,232 bytes)
- 6. Re: ww1 a/c (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:07:16 -0500
- Liberty engines saw only very limited Wartime use, and most of the production actually occurred after the Armistice. *I think you better check again. See production figures before 1918. During the Wa
- /html/tigers/2001-09/msg00086.html (9,146 bytes)
- 7. Re: ww1 a/c (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:55:09 -0500
- data, I have no "chat room" knowledge at all -- never been on one. *Another quibble. Change "chat room" to "list". Sorry to disappoint your prurient tastes, Ray. *I cannot imagine what you think the
- /html/tigers/2001-09/msg00089.html (7,957 bytes)
- 8. Re: ww1 a/c Nobel Prize (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:38:08 -0500
- <The inventor of that design should be posthumously awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping W.W. I more quickly by killing pilots making war, irrespective of side. Second place to the inventor of
- /html/tigers/2001-09/msg00094.html (7,486 bytes)
- 9. Re: ww1 a/c Nobel Prize (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:36:35 -0500
- Ok, would someone please bring this arcane discussion back to Tigerdom by explaining how to convert an Alpine to a Tiger by using one or more of these rotary engines. The early Alpines had wings, did
- /html/tigers/2001-09/msg00099.html (7,887 bytes)
- 10. Re: ww1 a/c Nobel Prize (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 19:43:23 -0500
- It's in my merkin box.... Ray McCrary "Speed is Life; of course Luck and Altitude are helpful, too."
- /html/tigers/2001-09/msg00110.html (7,208 bytes)
- 11. Original shifter (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:54:07 -0500
- There is an original Tiger shifter, complete, less stick, on eBay.
- /html/tigers/2001-09/msg00125.html (6,105 bytes)
- 12. Lucas headlights on Ebay (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:50:16 -0500
- There is a pair of new Lucas headlights on eBay. Ray McCrary "Speed is Life; of course Luck and Altitude are helpful, too."
- /html/tigers/2001-09/msg00144.html (6,253 bytes)
- 13. Tranny (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:47:51 -0500
- Tiger transmission on eBay. Also a cool model. How rare is the dual pattern iron bellhousing? Best, Ray McCrary "Speed is Life; of course Luck and Altitude are helpful, too."
- /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00219.html (6,277 bytes)
- 14. Tiger LAT hood on ebay (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 13:00:18 -0500
- Hope I didn't send this twice, but there is a LAT fiberglass hood on Ray McCrary "Speed is Life; of course Luck and Altitude are helpful, too."
- /html/tigers/2001-07/msg00001.html (6,234 bytes)
- 15. Tremy question (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 08:21:51 -0500
- Who supplies a kit to install the Tremec tranny in the Tiger? Ray McCrary "Speed is Life; of course Luck and Altitude are helpful, too."
- /html/tigers/2001-07/msg00359.html (6,611 bytes)
- 16. Crate engines (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 16:39:12 -0500
- A friend of mine is considering a crate engine from Summit (late 5.0) for his Tiger. Do any of you know what he has to change to make it work, just off-hand? He can't do a lot of fabbing, and I am ou
- /html/tigers/2001-06/msg00163.html (6,401 bytes)
- 17. heat and other things....... (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 20:22:56 -0500
- what
- /html/tigers/2001-04/msg00299.html (6,685 bytes)
- 18. Go Silicone! (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 20:09:10 -0600
- Ref silicone brake fluid: I noticed that someone had posted a study on why GM doesn't use silicone in its ABS SYSTEMS......well, I don't use the darn stuff in my Tigers' ABS, either. AND there is a V
- /html/tigers/2000-12/msg00009.html (7,238 bytes)
- 19. 18 PSI grenade (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:24:58 -0600
- I doubt that this guy is running 18 PSI in a street motor with pump gas. Sounds like Miata dreams. I drove one of the "Monster Miata" cars; it actually works. A/C, no overheating, etc. Not a bad ride
- /html/tigers/2000-12/msg00098.html (6,724 bytes)
- 20. Book of Norman on Ebay (score: 1)
- Author: "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 16:10:23 -0600
- B.O.N on eBay item 508650825, if anyone is interested. Ray McCrary
- /html/tigers/2000-11/msg00153.html (6,157 bytes)
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