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61. Re: More arcane brake fittings stuff (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:48:19 -0400; Blatantly copied from the Dimeband Garage web site: "The SAE 45 degree double flare usually has a male-threaded tube nut that bears directly on the OD of the flared tube- so you need a double flare t; /html/vintage-race/2001-07/msg00431.html (10,731 bytes)
62. Re: Weber question, Sprite cam (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:15:42 -0400; Exactly. The vacuum signal is "routed" to the idle ports only when the throttles are closed. Try going to the original chokes, see if anything is blocked by the new chokes (unlikely, but...), try lea; /html/vintage-race/2001-06/msg00028.html (9,326 bytes)
63. vintage spirit, from RMVR page... (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:13:37 -0400; http://pub3.ezboard.com/brmvr, which I just found and am having fun browsing, yielded this gem, which I decided to share with you all. Brian HEPCAT posted....on RMVR board, the following missive: Dig; /html/vintage-race/2001-06/msg00033.html (8,592 bytes)
64. Re: Yet another brake question (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 08:29:27 -0400; There's a whole big difference between "you can screw the Girling fittings into a AN-3 fitting and if you crank down hard they don't leak" and "You can mate Girling and AN-3 and they work really well; /html/vintage-race/2001-06/msg00073.html (8,788 bytes)
65. Re: EGT measurements (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 16:29:15 -0400; I can see how an O2 sensor could help you find a theoretical best mixture, but how would an EGT be used? I'm think back to dynoing my Martin engine, when due to inefficient combustion we ended up ove; /html/vintage-race/2001-05/msg00175.html (10,838 bytes)
66. Re: Hard brake pedal (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 09:16:57 -0400; Think of this as a leverage problem - the lever is your foot pressing against the caliper pistons, with a bunch of stuff in between. The problems could be, in order of what I think is the probability; /html/vintage-race/2001-05/msg00199.html (8,284 bytes)
67. RE: Broken Stub Axle (Spindle) on Austin-Healey 3000 (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:01:24 -0400; The problem with Magnafluxing is that it only tells you that the part's not cracked *now*. If it's past it's fatigue life, or installed wrong, or being over-stressed (like big sticky tires on suspens; /html/vintage-race/2001-05/msg00217.html (14,644 bytes)
68. Re: 13/13 and 7/10, etc (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 09:14:15 -0400; What I love about NASCAR, and some other racing series (mostly broadcast on Speedvision) is when the car is totally lost, perhaps airborne but certainly sideways, backwards, spinning more than once,; /html/vintage-race/2001-04/msg00023.html (7,734 bytes)
69. Re: Period correct - definition (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:27:35 -0400; For VARAC, per the rules, the year of manufacture applies for vintage production cars, but in practice the cars are prepared to fit within the eligibility period, which is up to 1961 for vintage, 196; /html/vintage-race/2001-04/msg00083.html (9,189 bytes)
70. Re: Girls in racing (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:39:53 -0400; I didn't reply before, as I have no daughters (or son's) and no prospects for any - don't really like children until they're old enough to move away from home (big :) ). My idea of commitment to a d; /html/vintage-race/2001-04/msg00085.html (8,133 bytes)
71. with reference to old age and treachery... (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:54:42 -0400; Got a chuckle from this, from a news group... You have to learn to use leverage and how to substitute brains for brawn. Then it doesn't get worse -- different, but not worse. Which reminds me of the; /html/vintage-race/2001-04/msg00095.html (8,068 bytes)
72. Re: Engine Trivia (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 12:11:30 -0400; I'd say that the Lotus Twin Cam was a variant on the Ford 109E stock block, so doesn't qualify, as don't the various Cosworth variants. How about the V6 used in the rear engine Metro rally car? Was i; /html/vintage-race/2001-04/msg00109.html (8,701 bytes)
73. Re: Engine Trivia (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:18:23 -0400; I thought the rules were that the engine had to have seen the first light of day, in any form related to basic design of the block, etc, in a racing car, then get used for mundane applications...Cove; /html/vintage-race/2001-04/msg00115.html (9,450 bytes)
74. RE: tire choices (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 09:25:35 -0400; in my personal experience, bias ply tires are a lot more fun to drive on, once you get used to sliding the car a bit. Easier to get the correct camber, too, bias ply tires usually like about 1 - 1.5; /html/vintage-race/2001-04/msg00140.html (8,329 bytes)
75. Re: Engine limits? (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 09:31:28 -0400; I'm pretty sure that Ollie Clibine, at Britain West, used to race these and can advise on rev limits from experience. 519 756 1610. Brian Brian Evans Director, Canada MCI Wholesale Internet Services; /html/vintage-race/2001-04/msg00202.html (8,956 bytes)
76. Re: Engine limits? (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 10:28:31 -0400; Most guys with small-block A-series find that the rods (998 Mini rods, in most cases - same as full floating 1100 rods) are the weak limit, with the limit being 7500 - 8000 rpm. At that, I'd limit th; /html/vintage-race/2001-04/msg00206.html (11,875 bytes)
77. Re: Fwd: Spriget Question (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:12:41 -0400; The stock springs are about 250 lbs/in., while race springs seem to start at about 500 or so. I think that with the right shocks, the 400 lbs springs would be on the stiff side for streetable, but no; /html/vintage-race/2001-04/msg00226.html (8,183 bytes)
78. Re: 5-Port Aluminum Head wanted for MGB (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:02:13 -0400; The guys who make the aluminium Formula Ford head do one for the MGB, or so I recall from their web page. Of course, as a new head it may have eligibility repercussions (would in VARAC, anyway) but t; /html/vintage-race/2001-04/msg00257.html (7,308 bytes)
79. RE: Lecture from Uncle Don (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 16:28:30 -0500; Canadians are just as jingoistically, pig-headedly, irrationally proud of being Canadian as Americans are proud of being American. At least I am :) Anyone who calls me American 'cause I live in (the; /html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00019.html (9,409 bytes)
80. Re: pacific northwest shake down (score: 1): Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>; Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 20:38:36 -0500; We had an earthquake, about 3.5 or so, here in central Ontario (near Toronto) a week or so ago. Now I've heard that North Dakota is very safe... brian; /html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00031.html (9,225 bytes)

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