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1. re:Daily Drivers (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 16:19:20 -0800 (PST)
I've used my Spitfire as a daily driver for the past 2-3 years after my "modern" car broke down. And I don't mind driving my car everywhere, but when I think of all of the times I've had a problem, i
/html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00051.html (11,474 bytes)

2. Cylinder Compression Tests (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 09:47:28 -0800 (PST)
I know that for a compression test, you're supposed to make sure that the cylinders are within a 10% differential of one another, to determine if one or more cylinders is wearing worse than the other
/html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00134.html (7,212 bytes)

3. Re: Is Triumph coming Back??? (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:18:43 -0800 (PST)
Not to start any rumors but, the trademark says it is granted for "Parts for vehicles". It might just be a legal stipulation for BMW to import or sell "triumph" brand replacement parts. Or it might e
/html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00223.html (10,572 bytes)

4. Triumph Redeux - my opinion (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:27:28 -0800 (PST)
I took a test drive in a Z3 3.0i last weekend with a friend, and when he asked me what I thought of it, I told him "it's certainly a tight car. good torque. but if I were to define it in a word, it w
/html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00316.html (9,220 bytes)

5. Re: Spitfire & GT6 magazine (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:31:46 -0800 (PST)
Hey Jeff! You have an article published in SPIT/GT6 Magazine this month!! Feel better now? (JK) -Terry Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online!
/html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00317.html (8,571 bytes)

6. RE: Pulsing and surging (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:01:26 -0800 (PST)
I have a problem with a pulsing/loss of power but it's only in the range of 3k to 3500 rpms. I get a sputter and power loss..Like the engine is going to die (and it probably will) from flooding. If
/html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00353.html (8,790 bytes)

7. Re: 79 spit starter meltdown..? (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:23:40 -0800 (PST)
Gauge wire works backwards from screw sizes (#4 screws are tiny...#12's are large). In wiring, the largest gauges are zero (0) or what is referred to as a Aught gauge. The smallest wires (phone cords
/html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00385.html (14,815 bytes)

8. Amperage/Gauge list (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:55:39 -0800 (PST)
I don't know if I made it clear, but that list is for DIRECT CURRENT only and is a very short (6 foot run). For household (AC) currents, you have current traveling at greater distances (you must calc
/html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00388.html (7,167 bytes)

9. Re: Not Car related but if you heard about Jamie Bulger please (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:53:08 -0800 (PST)
It's not much better here in the U.S. In the local baltimore news Saturday; http://www.sunspot.net/content/archive/story?section=archive&pagename=story&storyid=1150540207909 Just as a short synapsis;
/html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00456.html (7,795 bytes)

10. re:Spit carb part & an unrelated story (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:09:04 -0800 (PST)
Zenith Strombergs can be tuned? By your statement that ZS's are harder to tune than SU's you're implying that you can tune a ZS. (Just jibing you) The only advantage to the ZS over a set of SU's or a
/html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00498.html (10,096 bytes)

11. Dashboard layout (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:15:00 -0800 (PST)
I'm looking at making a custom dashboard for my Spit 1500 to accept the new gauges (oil press & ammeter) and toggle switches. I don't want to go drilling holes in my solid black walnut dash, so I've
/html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00514.html (7,600 bytes)

12. Re: "Spiders" (and not arachnids :-) (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:37:31 -0800 (PST)
I recently read somewhere that in the 1950's Italian auto designers reinvoked the term "Spyder" which had it's bassis in the days of horse and carriages. Specifically a light-weight British two-seat
/html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00549.html (8,404 bytes)

13. Re: Re: "Spiders" (and not arachnids :-) Or Italian "ragni"? (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:21:39 -0800 (PST)
Probably because "i" in Italian is pronounced like Oh! So, what you're saying Laura is that a Fiat Spider is actually a "SPEEDER". Sort of like a Porsche Speedster? I'm staring to wonder if the Itali
/html/spitfires/2001-01/msg00556.html (8,219 bytes)

14. Re: Color of Exhaust Manifold (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 20:28:40 -0800 (PST)
Yeah. I used some 1500 deg. paint that you bake on (stick it in an oven to cure it). Looked great, until the engine ran for about 3 minutes. By the end of the month, it had completely burnt and peele
/html/spitfires/2000-12/msg00149.html (8,349 bytes)

15. Re: Spit 1500 fuel tank capacity? (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:28:42 -0800 (PST)
I've run my car dry when I first bought it, and didn't realize that E wasn't vapors...it really meant Empty. (the car died down hill from a gas station 3 blocks away, while I was waiting for a 10 min
/html/spitfires/2000-12/msg00224.html (8,972 bytes)

16. Re: Junkyard Wars. (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:42:05 -0800 (PST)
Well, some of the earlier episodes were less than inspiring when contestants spent literally HOURS pulling parts from vehicles only to not have them work at all. Remember that no matter what they're
/html/spitfires/2000-12/msg00270.html (11,641 bytes)

17. Spitfires in the movies (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:41:17 -0800 (PST)
While we're on the subject of our cameo-cars. There's a small list of movies by the model that appeared and in some cases a description of scene the car was in, at the www.team.net/www/triumph/ web p
/html/spitfires/2000-12/msg00273.html (7,619 bytes)

18. Re: "The Triumph Marque" on Speedvision (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 18:27:21 -0800 (PST)
Speedvision is a cable and satellite TV station (atleast in major markets in the U.S.). The Triumph Marque is a half hour long episode of a show called "LEGENDS OF MOTORSPORT". Speedvision has a web
/html/spitfires/2000-12/msg00396.html (10,233 bytes)

19. More on Speedvision (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:18:30 -0800 (PST)
Thanks for the update. It was really bugging me that the Spitfire drivers were showing such dominance of the course, and when I tuned back in to see the Fiats come in first and second. Also, I said
/html/spitfires/2000-12/msg00401.html (8,231 bytes)

20. Re: ALternator gone south (score: 1)
Author: Terry Thompson <epharisto@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 18:27:59 -0800 (PST)
Sounds like you've got a pretty messed-up wiring On the late model spitfires, there are two brown-yellow wires. One is for an indicator light and the other feeds the battery through the starter solen
/html/spitfires/2000-12/msg00431.html (9,016 bytes)


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