- 61. Re: Dual Porker (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:47:29 EST
- No, but I had 4 SUs running on a Triumph once, as well as a couple of DU6 double barrelled SUs. But as far as synchronisation headaches go, I'd have to nominate my old Lamborghini with 6 - 40 DCOE si
- /html/vintage-race/2003-04/msg00002.html (7,647 bytes)
- 62. Re: Question about HSR (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:49:32 EST
- The 'new race director' in the example given was foolish. It sounds to me like typical officiousness in petty officials - you see it all the time when you give some people authority (if you don't bel
- /html/vintage-race/2003-03/msg00088.html (10,134 bytes)
- 63. Re: Question about HSR (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:24:51 EST
- One particular D type Jaguar with a 427 Chev comes to mind, locally, as does a Bugeye Sprite with a 215 Buick..... Bill /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try ///
- /html/vintage-race/2003-03/msg00092.html (8,986 bytes)
- 64. Re: Question about HSR (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:37:29 EST
- Of course! Even if the competitor had been on borrowed time, if he had been accepted for the race and the car was the same as it had been when he'd run it before, IMHO the time to give him the boot (
- /html/vintage-race/2003-03/msg00093.html (9,528 bytes)
- 65. Re: Question about HSR (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:26:27 EST
- I fiat, but I don't believe it! I think you are out to lunchia You should be Lambo-asted for taking such liberties with the language of Catullus.....;-) Bill /// unsubscribe/change address requests t
- /html/vintage-race/2003-03/msg00097.html (8,959 bytes)
- 66. Trivia (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:35:54 EST
- I have it on good authority that only one imported sedan ever won a Nascar Can anyone name the year and the car? Bill /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// ht
- /html/vintage-race/2003-03/msg00099.html (6,959 bytes)
- 67. Re: Trivia (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:12:37 EST
- Off by a few decades (and a continent or two) /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo /// Archives at http://www.team.net/a
- /html/vintage-race/2003-03/msg00102.html (7,373 bytes)
- 68. Re: Trivia (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:48:10 EST
- You got it (as did a few others, slightly later). Well done! I'd love to have seen that race! Bill /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/m
- /html/vintage-race/2003-03/msg00105.html (7,190 bytes)
- 69. Re: Trivia (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:48:51 EST
- I had been told it was a Mark 7 saloon. Bill /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo /// Archives at http://www.team.net/ar
- /html/vintage-race/2003-03/msg00107.html (7,134 bytes)
- 70. Re: Another answer on Trivia (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:14:01 EST
- Thanks for the info - the chap who told me thought it was a Mk7. Bill /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo /// Archives
- /html/vintage-race/2003-03/msg00125.html (7,056 bytes)
- 71. Re: Who Has Their Original Race Car? (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:02:58 EST
- It occurred to me that I started racing in 1973 at Westwood BC, and that I still have my first (though not only) race car, a 1958 MGA. I've owned it since 1970 (a few months less than I've had my gir
- /html/vintage-race/2003-03/msg00127.html (7,781 bytes)
- 72. Re: Who Has Their Original Race Car? (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:02:32 EST
- Not something to brag about - if you'd been driving hard enough, you'd have had to change those years ago..... We probably ran at Westwood and Seattle together in the good old days (my white MGA). Bi
- /html/vintage-race/2003-03/msg00132.html (7,286 bytes)
- 73. Re: Calling all gearbox gurus... (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 21:17:00 EST
- The factory close ratio gears are quite rare - you can tell them by the bronze coloured edges of the gear teeth, I wonder what the ratios are on the ones for sale - if they just got a set out of a sa
- /html/vintage-race/2003-03/msg00147.html (8,322 bytes)
- 74. Re: Calling all gearbox gurus... (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:44:58 EST
- The ratios are listed in the spec page for 1972 SCCA. Mine isn't handy or I'd quote them for you). I think they were 1.88/1.42/1.24/1.00, the same as the sets Kas Kastner had made up for SCCA in the
- /html/vintage-race/2003-03/msg00149.html (7,591 bytes)
- 75. Re: Use of Weight Scales in Vintage Racing Events Techs - What (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:58:53 EST
- Beware - different organisations use different weights. When I raced my MGA in ICSCC racing, it was too light even though I hadn't done any lightening aside from removing windscreen etc. I had to add
- /html/vintage-race/2003-03/msg00169.html (9,028 bytes)
- 76. Dual Porker (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:42:17 EST
- Reading an old SCG, I noticed a 1967 Indy entrant with dual 911 engines, front and back. It didn't qualify, but I'll bet there is an interesting story behind it - anyone know? Bill /// unsubscribe/ch
- /html/vintage-race/2003-03/msg00232.html (7,210 bytes)
- 77. Re: Dual Porker (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:51:09 EST
- Twin engined race cars always make me think we are dealing with a creative (or maybe diseased) mind. Remember the Deep Sandersons with Mini engines at each end? I should think that throttle synchroni
- /html/vintage-race/2003-03/msg00237.html (8,102 bytes)
- 78. Re: Dual Porker (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:28:05 EST
- Odd sorts of "push-me-pull-you" - always thought the Fiat 500 Multipla would have been a good candidate for not knowing which way it was going. We had one guy that did this sort of thing to a Volkswa
- /html/vintage-race/2003-03/msg00241.html (7,849 bytes)
- 79. Re: Guess the BHP of a Lotus Seven America. (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 18:56:41 EST
- At the wheels? Probably about 40 bhp? Good thing your car only weighs 800 lbs. ;-) Bill /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman/list
- /html/vintage-race/2003-02/msg00015.html (7,081 bytes)
- 80. Cars For Sale - contact seller, not me! (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:53:40 EST
- b 68 NSU TT 1200 with destroyed floor pan and right rear quarter panel otherwise complete and drivable now available for parts. Plus additional body panels, complete doors, glass, trim, electrical /b
- /html/vintage-race/2003-02/msg00017.html (7,197 bytes)
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