Same goes here, my spit runs fine with minor mods, if I wanted more
power Id
buy a old muscle car and probably still have bucks to spare
Gerry
if it ain't broke don't fix it!
80 spit
"D.T.Gebhard" wrote:
> <snip>So my feeling is enjoy the car for what it is,
> improve the stock engine if you want more acceleration
> and don't waste your time messing with bastardizing a
> great little car.
>
> clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap
>
> Dave Gebhard
> 1977 Not bastardized *yet!!!*
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <trunnell@mindspring.com>
> To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 7:33 AM
> Subject: Re: Engine Swapping..longish
>
> Hi,
> Just wanted to put in my two cents here. Grassroots
> did an article a few years ago about a Spitfire that
> they set up for autocrossing at the national level.
> When they were done they had a good running reliable
> car that would do 0-60 in about 8 seconds. This is
> without doing any internal engine mods. the engine was
> rebuilt and balanced, but used a stock cam, pistons
> etc. Externally they were running dual DCOE 40 or 45
> carbs, hotter ign. etc. Basically all the standard
> mods. I don't know what the top speed was, but I'm
> sure it was faster than 100 mph. In my opinion 0-60
> time is what most people refer to when they talk about
> high performance on the street, how often do you drive
> your spit more than 85 or 90? My car will do 96 mph
> top end, with a single stromberg and all the emissions,
> but with a hotter cam, higher compression, better ign.
> etc.but it is still fairly slow 0-60, this is where I'd
> like to see more power. I may eventually follow GRMs
> example and improve my ca!
> !
> !
> r so that it performs at that level, if I can get
> around the emissions.
> While I think the Spit is a good looking car and would
> certainly like to see it have more power, I don't think
> that it is so beautiful that it is worth investing a
> ton of time and effort in installing a different
> engine, except maybe in the case of the GT6 engine as
> this eems to be the easiest and to me the most
> desirable swap. The Spit is a great little classic car
> that performs reasonably well and if you compare it to
> it's main competition of the day it was technologically
> superior in many ways. For example, tube versus lever
> shocks, independent suspension, 8 port heads on the
> later engines (versus an MGBs siameesed exhaust even on
> the last cars), ever look under a Lotus Elan, the rear
> end is very similar to a rotoflex GT6. So my feeling is
> enjoy the car for what it is, improve the stock engine
> if you want more acceleration and don't waste your time
> messing with bastardizing a great little car.
>
> Glenn
> '76 Spitfire
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