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Re: "Bang for the buck" and MGB

To: Eric <eric@erickson.on.net>
Subject: Re: "Bang for the buck" and MGB
From: Charles & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 15:45:52 -0600
Hi Eric,

   How did they justify bumping you up a class?

   Thanks,

    CR

Eric wrote:
> kmwheeler@ualr.edu wrote:
> 
>>is there anything I could do to help the performance of the car?  
> 
> 
> Well I am too poor to do too much but I seem to have made her a tad faster.
> 
> Ported and polished the bejesus out of the head... coupled with nice
> headers to take away the bad stuff.  Some big valves and the slightly
> larger (not BIG BORE) pistons and a "fast-street" cam (if you want
> specifics we'll do it off list).
> 
> Going faster was one part of it - making it actually HANDLE was the next
> bit.  Lots of fiddling has just about got that right.
> 
> Of course this was just my way of announcing that my new presents for
> the car for this season's track work (after a full season off) includes
> disk brakes front and rear, just 1.5 degrees negative camber for the
> front end and a limited slip diff.  
> 
> I wasn't allowed any of this stuff before but seeing as they got jealous
> of my efforts in the past and bumped me up a class then I had to do
> SOMETHING to narrow the gap between me and the front runners who spend
> bucketloads on their cars!
> 
> :-)





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