Matt;
sorry to take so long, I was out of town.
My knowlage of lotus front ends is limited, but I think.....
that the front uprights , upper ball joints, lower swivels , and brakes
are the same on spits and elan series 1,2,3
The elan plus2 uses GT6 front stuff
I have no idea if any of the wishbones are the same on the elan and the
spit. They are NOT on my elan plus 2 S.
The suspension mods are listed in the CPM (avaliable from TRF)
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> From: Matthews, M D (Matt) <matthmd@texaco.com>
> To: 'DON BOYD, JOAN IKOMA' <dbji@whidbey.net>
> Subject: RE: TR6 suspension suspense
> Date: Friday, July 24, 1998 9:19 AM
>
> Would you please inform me of the modifications to your suspension. Do
> you know anything about the relationship between the Spit's front
> suspension components and the Lotus Elans?
> Thanks
>
> Matt Matthews
> Houston
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: DON BOYD, JOAN IKOMA [SMTP:dbji@whidbey.net]
> > Sent: Friday, July 24, 1998 10:44 AM
> > To: triumph list
> > Subject: Re: TR6 suspension suspense
> >
> >
> > Joe ;
> >
> > phooey! My spits got a huffaker SCCA full race suspension(circa
> > 1976) and
> > , although it went well enough to take a series 2nd place and a few
> > LTDs in
> > 1978 WOW autocross events, it still won't handle as well as a bog
> > stock
> > miata. I love my spit, and they'll have to pry it form my cold dead
> > hands
> > to get it away, but----
> > On second thought , there is something that the spit(after the
> > mods) did
> > better than any other car Ive driven. It was so sensitive and nimble.
> > You
> > could feel what each wheel was up to in a way that Ive never felt in
> > another car. That way, it would warn you before it was about to do
> > something EVIL! (which was it's normal attitude twoard life. Theres a
> > reason why my collage sweetheart named it "le marinade" or, "the
> > pickle".
> > She hated it.)
> >
> > Lets just keep this between ourselves; I don't want "le marinade" to
> > hear....
> > Don Boyd
> > ----------
> > > From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
> > > To: DON BOYD, JOAN IKOMA <dbji@whidbey.net>
> > > Subject: Re: TR6 suspension suspense
> > > Date: Thursday, July 23, 1998 12:01 AM
> > >
> > > DON BOYD, JOAN IKOMA wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > spitfire owners can poke fun without getting in too much trouble
> > can't
> > > > they?
> > >
> > > Don,
> > > Only if tyey realize how much that 1 rating goes up with the
> > addition of
> > > a Swing Spring!!!
> > >
> > > Joe Curry 63 Swing-Sprung SPit
> > > --
> > > "If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."
> > >
> > > -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer
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