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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I still miss Speed Channel with the lawn mower races.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Mike MacLean<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, August 14, 2019, 8:20:43 PM PDT, Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Tonight I caught the season premier of 'Goblin Works' on Motortrend <br></div><div dir="ltr">Channel. If you haven't seen it, this is an English version of the <br></div><div dir="ltr">ubiquitous American show about car modders. In contrast to the American <br></div><div dir="ltr">shows, which feature an endless stream of muscle cars and trucks being <br></div><div dir="ltr">slammed, chopped, airbagged, fitted with monstrous and hideous chrome <br></div><div dir="ltr">wheels, rubber-band tires, LS engines and garish paint jobs*, this show <br></div><div dir="ltr">features some British cars and an occasional American or other 'foreign' <br></div><div dir="ltr">car (and eschews the constant silly games and grab-assing common on the <br></div><div dir="ltr">American shows). Anyway, tonight they thoroughly and, I think <br></div><div dir="ltr">tastefully, modded a 1275 Austin Mini. They pulled the stock engine for <br></div><div dir="ltr">a core for a 'built' engine and I'm thinking: "Here we go, EFI or at <br></div><div dir="ltr">least a couple Webers" but, no, the built engine came with what appeared <br></div><div dir="ltr">to be a pair of SU carbs! They were pretty large, not quite HD8-size, <br></div><div dir="ltr">and had longer 'necks' on the vacuum/piston chambers; anyone know what <br></div><div dir="ltr">kind/size SUs these might have been? I've seen photos of similar carbs <br></div><div dir="ltr">on other Brit cars. Oh, yeah, the Mini engine dyno'd at 115 BHP--stock <br></div><div dir="ltr">was around 50--so who says SUs don't make power (I'm still pissed at Ant <br></div><div dir="ltr">Anstead for calling them 'garbage')?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">* I watch these shows for the 5 minutes of interesting and informative <br></div><div dir="ltr">fabrication, welding and engine building in 55 minutes of grabassery, <br></div><div dir="ltr">silly games and outright corniness.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Bob<br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">Support Team.Net <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Suggested annual donation $12.75<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys " target="_blank">http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys </a><a href="http://autox.team.net/archive" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/archive</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a ymailto="mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net" href="mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net">Healeys@autox.team.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/rrengineer.mike@att.net" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/rrengineer.mike@att.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div>
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