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41. Re: News! (score: 1)
Author: "Mike and Kerry Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 07:21:53 +1000
Thanks to everyone for the best wishes! Mike
/html/team-thicko/2000-10/msg00053.html (6,454 bytes)

42. Re: Sprite shock offer (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Kerry Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 07:36:54 +1000
Hi Peter, I'll take a set of front and a set of rears. If we send them on the slow boat, hopefully the shipping costs won't be so high this time! Let me know how much the total bill inc. shipping wil
/html/team-thicko/2000-07/msg00075.html (7,797 bytes)

43. Spridgetech online? (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Kerry Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:21:51 +1000
Does Spridgetech have a web site or email address? Mike
/html/team-thicko/2000-04/msg00031.html (6,248 bytes)

44. Double Bearing hubs for Spridgets - anyone using them? (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Kerry Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 16:31:39 +1100
I recently fitted a set of DB hubs I bought from Mini Mania back in '96 (I know - I'm so slack). I fitted them to my new racecar just before Bathurst last year. At the 2nd meeting with these hubs on,
/html/team-thicko/2000-02/msg00025.html (8,383 bytes)

45. Re: in the spirit of Irv the perv (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Kerry Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 16:33:31 +1100
Hey, I'm still waiting for my nickname. I'm off for a rally this weekend new race/rally car. Wish me luck! cheers, Mike
/html/team-thicko/2000-02/msg00026.html (7,838 bytes)

46. Re: crank shaft (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Kerry Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:27:32 +1100
The EN40 crank was used in the thin-flange 1275 blocks. EN16 cranks were used in the rest of the spridget motors. Many racecars are built with EN16 cranks. They will last a *long* time if the motor i
/html/team-thicko/2000-01/msg00020.html (8,384 bytes)

47. Re: Panasport Wheels (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Kerry Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 23:01:07 +1100
I use an Australian made 13x5.5 minilite lookalike. The company is Peformance Wheels in South Australia. Wheels with steel insets cost me $A170 ea (that is about US$110 before shipping etc). I'm not
/html/team-thicko/2000-01/msg00028.html (7,860 bytes)

48. Re: Rain tire question (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 09:25:28 +1100
I used some Yokohama A-032R tyres as wet weather (DOT legal) tyres. I'd forget street radials, there are much better solutions. They are ostensibly tarmac rally competition tyres, but are good on the
/html/team-thicko/1999-11/msg00051.html (7,583 bytes)

49. What I've been up to... (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 10:49:28 +1000
I've been pretty quiet lately, I've very briefly scanned the list but I read most messages and have sent a couple of private replies. I've been prepping two cars, the bugeye has been rebuilt after th
/html/team-thicko/1999-10/msg00025.html (15,439 bytes)

50. Re: What I've been up to... (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:24:58 +1000
Well, all I can report is that I got the same story from everyone, including one race engine builder in Sydney who said that he has had a car on the rolling road and it dropped > 5HP just by pulling
/html/team-thicko/1999-10/msg00035.html (10,121 bytes)

51. Re: more nicknames needed (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 08:59:49 +1000
OK, I have been known as 'Gigantor' in my youth. Also, Pancho because of the bugeye (It did the La Carerra 5 times in the hands of its previous owner Daren Stone and has the Mexican and British flags
/html/team-thicko/1999-10/msg00053.html (11,634 bytes)

52. Re: more nicknames needed (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 13:01:57 +1000
Not sure about some of the variations!!! Mike meeting. and
/html/team-thicko/1999-10/msg00057.html (8,163 bytes)

53. Brakes - rear wheel cylinders on Spridgets (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 19:22:25 +1000
You may know this already, but you need to check your wheel cylinders for signs that the seals have not been overheated. Today, I had total brake failure at the end of the fast (7200 rpm, 3.9 diff) f
/html/team-thicko/1999-10/msg00153.html (8,465 bytes)

54. Re: Brakes - rear wheel cylinders on Spridgets (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 19:39:59 +1000
The adjustment was OK - I tighten the adjuster up until I can first feel it drag and then back it off 2 flats. I've done this for years without overheating the rear brakes before. I do the adjustmen
/html/team-thicko/1999-10/msg00155.html (9,061 bytes)

55. Re: Block (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:39:24 +1000
There was a "cheatin' dog" trick pulled by someone who will remain nameless (except he was from NSW) Build up a false '948' on the side of an 1100 block with coat hanger wire and epoxy. Paint over th
/html/team-thicko/1999-10/msg00157.html (7,841 bytes)

56. Re: Sprite hubs and axles (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 10:51:43 +1000
A trick around here for "we tight" competitors is to use a wire wheel banjo on 1/2 elliptic cars and use cut-off wire wheel half shafts. these are much stronger than standard axles and are cheap. An
/html/team-thicko/1999-07/msg00025.html (11,570 bytes)

57. Re: Thicko demographics (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 08:46:07 +1000
Well, what I do depends on when you ask! I have formal quals in Aero Eng and Comp Sci. I have been an aeronautical structures engineer specialising in composite structures and FEM thereof. I have bee
/html/team-thicko/1999-07/msg00065.html (11,423 bytes)

58. spridgets - exhaust down the tunnel (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 09:24:31 +1100
Any thickos using exhaust down the transmission tunnel? WC sells one I believe. Now I just don't think buying the WC one is a practical proposition from Australia, so I'm looking at getting such a se
/html/team-thicko/1999-03/msg00004.html (6,665 bytes)

59. fuel (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 07:08:55 +1100
We had an interesting briefing from our national motorsport body the other day. They are planning to phase out avgas by 2002 and limit all racing categories to 100 octane. They will test all placeget
/html/team-thicko/1999-02/msg00008.html (6,855 bytes)

60. whoops (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:40:55 +1100
I crunched my rally bugeye "Redcar" over the weekend on a bitumen special stage rally in Tasmania. Tried pace notes for the first time and somehow I thought we were heading for a LEFT hand hairpin (a
/html/team-thicko/1999-02/msg00025.html (8,578 bytes)

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