Bill and all,
The through bolts with washers and nuts is the same set up on my
Targa Florio/factory ralley car. On my car the bolts went through from the
top and the washer and nylock nut were on the bottom which makes starting
the nut through the hole in the crossmember a little tricky.
Dave McDermott
At 09:10 AM 2/11/98 -0800, Bill Martin wrote:
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> Frank and All,
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> I have been hunting down longer xmember to frame bolts for a while now
>and I think I might have found a supplier. As you probably know you can
>buy longer bolts at any hardware store but the grip length is increased
>not the threaded length. I will let you know in a few days how I do. I
>also have looked at Dave Duncanson's factory ralley car and Tony Eckford's
>LeMans coupe and both have through bolts with washers and Nuts for the
>crossmember. If the factory did it on race cars then they must have seen
>a reason.
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> To all on this list or who are interested,
> I was at Norms last night going through the last of his books and he is
>down to the last 90 copies of The Book of Norman, he printed 1000 and is
>not going to reprint so if your copy is like mine (greasy fingerprints
>throughout) you might want to pick up a copy from Rick at Sunbeam
>Specialties if you want to have a nice copy in your collection.
>Bill
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