- 1. engines (score: 1)
- Author: "Zust, Fred" <FZust@admin.clemsonsc.NCR.COM>
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 93 08:20:00 PST
- I am going to buy a Lotus Seven or clone in the next year or so. I have been contemplating engines. I know very little about the british engines like the Opal 2000cc(GM?) but I know a fair bit about
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00408.html (7,149 bytes)
- 2. Re: engines (score: 1)
- Author: linus!xait!pyrthoth.pyramid.com!robbp@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Rob Pryor)
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 89 17:51:06 PST
- Actually, the engine for the A90, a 2.6L 4 cylinder motor, traces its design origins to a British Jeep built during WW II. When Donald Healey came along, Austin had a considerable excess of the units
- /html/british-cars/1989-11/msg00006.html (8,027 bytes)
- 3. Engines (score: 1)
- Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 89 15:46:25 PST
- Well, you *could* be confusing things from a very unflattering reporter's comments about the revised C-type engine that was used in the MGC. He said that it "appeared to have been designed for an ag
- /html/british-cars/1989-11/msg00016.html (12,164 bytes)
- 4. Re: Engines (score: 1)
- Author: linus!xait!pyrthoth.pyramid.com!robbp@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Rob Pryor)
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 89 02:11:43 PST
- What I meant was that there was no *design* work on the engine. Changing the timing, compression and carburetion, to me, are changes in tuning. These are the kind of changes made for competition, ru
- /html/british-cars/1989-11/msg00022.html (8,560 bytes)
- 5. Re: Engines (score: 1)
- Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 89 10:27:43 PST
- What I meant was that there was no *design* work on the engine. Changing the timing, compression and carburetion, to me, are changes in tuning. These are the kind of changes made for competition, rul
- /html/british-cars/1989-11/msg00027.html (10,550 bytes)
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