I have found that my spit ('77 1500) feels a lot more skittish since I
have taken the hard top off and put the soft top on. I drove on the
motorway last weekend with the top down, and that was a bit hairy,
although last time I drove on the motorway (with hardtop) the car felt
a
lot more solid and much less likely to take off or change direction
when
I hit a bump in the road. I guess that a fair bit of road-holding
ability comes from the chassis rigidity, of which the hardtop
contributes
to a fair bit I'd say...
I'm not sure what speed I drive at because I don't think my speedo is
that accurate when going at 70+, seems ok lower down the range though. I
have done quite a few motorway journeys and I have done them in a similar
sort of time that I would a modern car, so I would guess that I must be
doing at least 80mph, I have an OD and usually cruise at 3500rpm for a
bit and then back off to give the engine a rest, anyone know roughly what
speed I would be doing in OD top?
In this months TSSC courier magazine there was an article about making
an air dam for the front of the spit, I wonder how much this would
improve
the handling? Have any of you made an air dam for your Spit?
On the local news last night there was a feature about a kit car that
some bloke built that could do 0-60 in 2.7 seconds, and go faster than
a formula 1 car! They didn't give any details about the car, although it
looked a bit like a Caterham 7, talking of which I saw one the other
day.
I think I'll buy one when I'm rich and famous...
oh yeah I saw a lime green rag-top TR7 too...
cheers
John
http://www.spit1500.co.uk/
> >
> > Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 08:00:39 -0500
> > From: Chuck Pedretti <chuckp@magenic.com>
> > Subject: RE: Highway driving
> >
> > My wifes car is by no means a daily driver, but I took it to work a
> > couple
> > times on the highway. The fastest I got going was about 75 MPH. It
> > seemed
> > fine as long as the road was smooth. Any little bump though made it
> > feel
> > like the car was going to leave the road. The thing that really
> > bothered me
> > on the highway was the size of the car. I live in MN, and it seems
> > like 90%
> > of the vehicles here are fullsized Pickups or Sport Utes.
> >
> > ___________________________________________
> > Chuck Pedretti
> >
> >
> > - -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andre Rousseau [mailto:andrer@mac.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 7:44 AM
> > To: spitfires@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Highway driving
> >
> >
> >
> > Do many of you take your cars on the highway?
> >
> > Last night I was going down a back road, I hit 80KM/H and felt that
> was
> >
> > fast enough.
> >
> > It was great and scary all at the same time.
> >
> > But I dont think I want to push the car beyond those speeds or can
> the
> > car handle them?
> >
> > A.
> >
> > Andre Rousseau
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