- 181. Re: Jahns piston (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 17:08:12 EST
- No big surprise with Jahns. The one thing they did usually do was make a fairly thick crown (and also heavy) piston. You could machine the other pistons to suit and then adjust deck height by shaving
- /html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00114.html (7,405 bytes)
- 182. Re: Elva brake drums (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:55:31 EST
- My best guess is Lockheed as fitted to Triumph TR3 before they went discs and switcjed to Girling. The shoes should be 10" x 2 1/4". Anything else I can think of (Riley, Austin) would be 9 x 2 or 2.5
- /html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00146.html (7,133 bytes)
- 183. Re: Fiat 124 vs MGB (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:52:33 EST
- Yeah, yeah - and the trains run on time too.....but they're so booooring (fun to beat, though, with our sloppy British engineered cars!). Bill ("it's too soon since the war to own a German car") Spoh
- /html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00269.html (8,373 bytes)
- 184. Re: VSCDA rule on Nylock nuts (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 10:57:51 EST
- Or like Laguna - one year it was one thing, the next year something else - it got so I was l almost tempted to phone before going to see what they were obsessing about that particular year so I could
- /html/vintage-race/2001-02/msg00137.html (8,331 bytes)
- 185. Re: Honesty (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:15:39 EST
- How many of them would have a clue who he _was_ (I have zero interest in that sort of racing, so he was only a vaguely familiar name even to me). Guess it's a matter of where you are and what sort of
- /html/vintage-race/2001-02/msg00176.html (7,810 bytes)
- 186. Re: How safe are we? (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 19:05:34 EST
- Discriminatory? Why? Insurance is a contract. The insurer can sell insurance for anything the customer will pay for, within reason. Obviously coverage for racing would have been more expensive than y
- /html/vintage-race/2001-02/msg00201.html (7,085 bytes)
- 187. Re: Honesty (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:54:05 EST
- Someone said that racing accidents shouldn't be discussed at home. I'd have to disagree - my wife and I have discussed it over the years - she was my pit crew before she was my wife, so has experienc
- /html/vintage-race/2001-02/msg00236.html (8,717 bytes)
- 188. Re: Honesty (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:29:31 EST
- Hey, does that mean that I shouldn't know that Nuvolare isn't a model of Plymouth, just because I wasn't around before the war? Bill S.
- /html/vintage-race/2001-02/msg00297.html (8,452 bytes)
- 189. Re: Helmets (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:17:19 EST
- Another interesting issue. When I was running tech back in the 70s, there was some thought that painting the helmets might weaken the shell, due to the solvents in the paint reacting with the shell m
- /html/vintage-race/2001-02/msg00305.html (8,253 bytes)
- 190. Re: Lecture from Uncle Don (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:25:53 EST
- What - a question of "I love ewe?" Bill (sorry for the baaaaad humour and for taking sheep shots - I deserve to be lambasted!)
- /html/vintage-race/2001-02/msg00308.html (8,364 bytes)
- 191. Re: Helmets (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:58:54 EST
- My first helmet, when I started racing in 1973, was Snell 196? something. Bill
- /html/vintage-race/2001-02/msg00322.html (8,142 bytes)
- 192. Re: Greatest Events!!!!! (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:48:03 EST
- Back in the 70s, racing at SIR, we used to camp at the track (barely able to whump up an entry fee, much less motel in those days), and watched the evening drags. Next morning, I used to go out on th
- /html/vintage-race/2001-02/msg00329.html (7,970 bytes)
- 193. Re: Lotus (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 14:51:27 EST
- I thought he'd been sighted recently in Buenos Aires with a young blonde on each arm. Bill
- /html/vintage-race/2001-02/msg00353.html (6,505 bytes)
- 194. Re: Greatest Events!!!!! (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 14:51:36 EST
- The title refers to the automotive part, not the membership or editorial staff, one assumes? Bill
- /html/vintage-race/2001-02/msg00354.html (7,132 bytes)
- 195. Re: Looking for Arnolt-Bristol....a "Wacky" idea! (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:52:19 EST
- I have a picture on my office wall, of my MGA having just passed an AC with Bristol engine at Portland, and believe me, they can be a pretty fast combination, and hard to beat, albeit somewhat lighte
- /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00076.html (8,288 bytes)
- 196. Re: AMB system (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 13:21:28 EST
- And you can do such fun things with them - one in the rear and one in the front, switchable, will add that needed fraction of a second, and then there's the one mounted on the electric antenna under
- /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00122.html (7,087 bytes)
- 197. Re: Brake line advice (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 12:19:12 EST
- Mark - I wouldn't trust flex hose for the whole car. ANY flex is too much, and I have a hard time believing that there isn't SOME - every foot you have adds up to a bit of loss. The other factor is c
- /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00131.html (8,018 bytes)
- 198. Re: Brake Line wrap-up (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:13:19 EST
- Well, the fact that you have to replace them much more often than steel lines (every 2-5 years) means that they are a LOT more expensive! Bill
- /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00155.html (7,314 bytes)
- 199. Re: Brake Line wrap-up (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:01:14 EST
- I have - after a few years they chafe internally and can spring leaks from the Teflon lining rubbing against the braided shell - probably NOT a good idea to use them on the street where people typica
- /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00176.html (7,351 bytes)
- 200. Re: MGB Brake Pads (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:36:42 EST
- OK, Malcolm, we have established (through Mark) that you race an MGA. It would be of some use to know what calipers you are using on it, as the B and C are not interchangeable, nor are the pads. In f
- /html/vintage-race/2001-01/msg00178.html (9,882 bytes)
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