Re: Retorquing head gaskets

[Brett Johnson <356drb@indy.net>]

on 2/11/03 3:02 PM, Bill Babcock at BillB@bnj.com wrote:


> 
> I heard somewhere that Colin Chapman fired a mechanic for using washers on
> their Lotus 7's or 11's because of the added weight.
> 
Don et al,

Len Pritchard, partner in Williams & Pritchards, who built the bodies for
the Lotus Eleven, once told me that Chapman requested that he use fewer
rivets in the body construction to reduce weight!

Brett Johnson