- 321. Re: Autobahn / new noise / aesthetics (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 18:16:54 EDT
- Nice to hear first hand experience from someone that tossed that piece of c__p. Every time I see a DGV on an MG I think that there's another gullible owner that was mystified and enticed by the name
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00457.html (7,491 bytes)
- 322. Re: Legal Matters (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:38:22 EDT
- What's arbitrary about giving offenders tickets? You know the law is always subject to enforcement, you take your chances by having no front plate, then why kick when what you knew could happen, does
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00657.html (8,160 bytes)
- 323. Re: DCOE carb jetting (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:36:11 EDT
- How would YOU jet these carbs to This is a totally meaningless question and anyone that tries to answer it will be offering information with zero value. It is IMPOSSIBLE to compare two engines of dif
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00790.html (8,232 bytes)
- 324. Re: DCOE carb jetting (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:57:12 EDT
- You mean siamesed. And we were talking about twin-throat Webers - MGs use only one (unless they have a special head), not 2 carbs like your BMW. That means that each throat on your Bimmer feeds 400 c
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00798.html (9,768 bytes)
- 325. Re: MGA Coupe Racer (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:53:42 EDT
- Larry - the only problem with coupes is that they are heavier (and therefor slower) and you can't take all that much out of them. Otherwise they do look nice, and were the car of choice for long dist
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00925.html (8,693 bytes)
- 326. Re: Websites (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:06:59 EDT
- 80% of websites are trying to sell you something or otherwise part you from your money - what they say is always suspect. Another 10% are trying to convert you to their way of thinking (political, re
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00927.html (7,517 bytes)
- 327. Re: Lights (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:09:01 EDT
- You can beat any red light ticket if you can prove that a car heading for the intersection at the speed limit would not be able to stop (using an average reaction time), before the light went red. Do
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00928.html (6,903 bytes)
- 328. Re: MGA Coupe Racer (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 00:27:33 EDT
- Very little, if any. A lot more frontal area, if you remove the windshield on the convertible (a roadster has sidecurtains, a convertible, which the MGB is, has wind-up windows.) Bill /// or try http
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00954.html (8,135 bytes)
- 329. Re:MGA Coupe Racer (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 00:44:38 EDT
- An MGA 1600 roadster weighs about 2050 on the street with fluids. A Twincam is a good hundred pounds more. A coupe weighs about half way in between - it has all the extra glass and steel for the roof
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg00955.html (8,754 bytes)
- 330. Re: Driving philosophies (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:19:22 EDT
- In BC, when you see a yellow light, you are to stop "unless the stop can not be made in safety". In other words, if you'd end up stopped in the middle of the intersection, you don't do that, you cont
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg01069.html (7,712 bytes)
- 331. Re: Driving Philosophies (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:21:43 EDT
- Not everywhere. Our statute defines it as 'yellow'. I guess you can call it whatever you like, although why something the colour of ossified tree pitch should be more appropriate escapes me just now.
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg01071.html (7,711 bytes)
- 332. Re: What's the Diff? (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:31:00 EDT
- A live axle MG can handle very well indeed, if the motion of said axle is properly controlled (in everything but the up-down plane). In fact on a smooth track, having the live axle is very little, if
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg01072.html (7,464 bytes)
- 333. Re: What would you drive? (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:22:39 EDT
- Uh - Blake - the car used in the Morse series is of the Mk2 type. There was no Mk3 I can recall, and the Mk4 was a coachbuilt version of the Mk5 postwar saloon. Bill (who has also owned Mk2 and Mk9 J
- /html/mgs/2002-08/msg01250.html (8,854 bytes)
- 334. Re: Wheels (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:44:17 EDT
- Barney, Barney - some of us still buy new issues on vinyl - get with the program! And you are absolutely correct about the wheels. Steel wheels flex all over the place, as do wire wheels. The place I
- /html/mgs/2002-06/msg00344.html (7,961 bytes)
- 335. Re: Wheels (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:29:56 EDT
- Yep - the wire wheel plus the splined hub plus the spinner weighs more than a steel wheel hub and wheel. Have it written down somewhere, but I expect someone can come up with the figures and save me
- /html/mgs/2002-06/msg00348.html (7,018 bytes)
- 336. Re: Dry Sump (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:12:42 EDT
- Kai - the article doesn't mention it because it ain't necessarily so! Traditional dry sump systems utilize either belt or gear driven pumps that like any other require a certain (usually quite short)
- /html/mgs/2002-06/msg00426.html (8,641 bytes)
- 337. Re: Dry Sump (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:39:01 EDT
- I use an Accusump on the MGA. If you are racing, you NEED one - the small tubing of the oil pressure line will NOT show you that you may be starving the engine in corners. If you do not compete with
- /html/mgs/2002-06/msg00440.html (8,521 bytes)
- 338. Re: Dry Sump (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:48:55 EDT
- BTW, Kai notwithstanding, dry sump systems typically consist of 3 or 4 stage mechanically driven pumps. I am not aware of any electrically driven ones (and didn't see any on APT's site) suitable for
- /html/mgs/2002-06/msg00441.html (7,570 bytes)
- 339. Re: Snotty Pinafarina owners (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:50:37 EDT
- Aw geez - can we put this one to bed? So someone waved and the other guy didn't wave back. Maybe he wasn't into old cars and wondered why the heck he was being waved at? Probably thought the guy wavi
- /html/mgs/2002-06/msg00656.html (8,584 bytes)
- 340. Re: Damn it Jerry! (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:53:16 EDT
- Maybe the guy was just pissed off that people couldn't spell 'Alfa' - thought you were a stupid NG owner....;-) Bill /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.n
- /html/mgs/2002-06/msg00657.html (6,847 bytes)
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