Keith, Dale--
probably shouldn't have mentioned the old Mog; Miss Maddie says it's actually an
Albatross. It's one of those "back-burner" projects that you're "going to get
around to next year"-- you know? Only I bought mine in 1967, and I've never had
it in drivable condition. It just shares a $150/mo storage bill with my
rusted-out CJ-5 (which I actually drove daily for over 13 years).
My Morgan is a 1956 +4 Drop-Head Coupe-- the kind with the full doors (not the
cut-aways), non-folding windshield, ventilated disk wheels (instead of wires)
and not enough louvres in the hood. Can you detect that I would have preferred
the (racier) little roadster? Mine comes from the days when Morgan yielded to
over-demand, and sold some cars un-assembled. The air-force officer who bought
it must have learned his welding in a base hobby-shop, because there is a lot
that I need to re-do.
Right now it's about third on my automotive priority list-- but at least I'm
making progress, now that the kids are grown and I don't have to act like the
grown-up anymore.
O.K., now that you are through snickering (1967?!!)-- tell me about YOUR
back-burner projects.
Russ
Morgan? You have a Morgan ... fill us in.
Dale C.
Keith Turk wrote:
> Russ... this really does have everything to do with our age... we recognize
> the minor advantages of 6 sparks per firing... and little stuff like control
> of the timing past setting it at the correct mark on the crank... When you
> want to do silly stuff like pull 8 degrees out at the exact time you turn
> the Nitrous on.... or have a high speed retard that isn't mechanical or
> maybe even something simple like oh say.... an Rpm activated switch....or a
> throttle associated switch based on Throttle position.... what are we
> thinking running all this Electronic junk.... we should stick to that Kiss
> Concept and get back to racing the " Easy way" We can pitch our data
> acquisition stuff too.... it's just going to tell us what Happened when we
> blew up our motors... or maybe even prevent it from one of those silly
> lights we run... Yep.... we shouldn't have a piece of wire in the car....
> just jump that starter off with the push truck and call it a day.... you
> know what... we don't even need a starter... we could hand crank it or maybe
> even use the push truck if we get the compression up in the double digit
> range.... whew.... LOL.... OKAY I'm having to much fun with this....
>
> Now about that Morgan.... ( being a british car freak... Morgans are still
> one of my favorites... not a Healey... but still the only truly hand build
> car avalible to the semi general public )( hey have you tried a Pertronix
> yet in the Morgan.... dang electronic ignitions for them are just so dang
> easy )
>
> Keith
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