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1. Re: colour of the inside bit of original triumph wheels? (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 20:28:20 -0500; I do not know the timeline of the hubcap colors, but I've got three different colors as original. Black plastic(with several different center stickers), grey plastic (only one type of center sticker); /html/spitfires/2001-12/msg00340.html (8,067 bytes)
2. Re: Installed Pacesetter & Monza...'70 Mk3 now runs rough! (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 20:39:15 -0500; I suspect you're going to find that the intake manifold isn't seating squarely against the head, but it instead fouling the header somewhere. It's an easy problem to have with a Spitfire, doubly so c; /html/spitfires/2001-12/msg00417.html (7,760 bytes)
3. Re: [spitfire-enthusiast] car nearing drive time (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 22:40:49 -0500; Somewhere, a few years ago, I read something along those lines. I have no recollection of who wrote it, or where I read it. The gist of it, as I recall, was that the 1500 suffered from lots of weight; /html/spitfires/2001-12/msg00420.html (8,451 bytes)
4. Re: On the 2nd day before Christmas... (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 22:49:04 -0500; It still could be wired up right, but the contact dirty so it doesn't work. /// spitfires@autox.team.net mailing list /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool; /html/spitfires/2001-12/msg00438.html (7,309 bytes)
5. Re: no reverse (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 20:33:49 -0500; Chuckle, don't feel too bad. I was in your exact predicament with my first Spitfire a few years ago. I'm sure a whole lot of us were in fact. :-) /// spitfires@autox.team.net mailing list /// or try; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00219.html (7,551 bytes)
6. Re: gassprings for a Spit bonnet - update - delete if (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 21:53:11 -0500; It's been followed through with, several times Paul. Engineers here in spitfires@autox.team.net group have also discussed the stress and resulting distortion from using high pressure cylinders. At le; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00247.html (8,472 bytes)
7. Re: Key blanks (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 21:05:53 -0500; You go to a locksmith, not the hardware store that happens to also cut keys, but a genuine locksmith, and you have him pull one off the shelf and cut it for you. /// spitfires@autox.team.net mailing; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00343.html (6,706 bytes)
8. Re: How important are the brass manifold nuts? (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:53:10 -0500; I cannot speak as to originality of using brass or copper nuts. But, from a working stand point, they are grrrrrrrreat, with a G! They don't rust themselves in place, making it possible to unbolt com; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00354.html (7,809 bytes)
9. Re: Steering Wheel Alignment Question (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:53:34 -0500; Actually, you want the car aligned *with the rack centered* first. Then check and see where the steering wheel is. Many times cheap monkeys pretending to be mechanics will do a front end alignment by; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00374.html (8,873 bytes)
10. Re: How are cam timing specs measured? (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:59:22 -0500; Welcome to the fun of camshaft specifications and marketing claims. There is no industry standard as to how and where lift measurements are to come from. While many of them do in fact use .005 lift a; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00375.html (9,136 bytes)
11. GT6 engines anyone? (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:12:41 -0500; For various sundry reasons, I'm now in possession of a couple of GT6 engines that I am selling. Those of you who have been contemplating doing the GT6 engine transplant, especially if you're in the M; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00376.html (7,021 bytes)
12. Re: [spitfire-enthusiast] GT6 engines anyone? (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 17:52:42 -0500; I just got inside from examining this engine. The engine turns over freely and smoothly, no frightening sounds inside as I spun it over by hand through several rotations. Thrust washers feel fine, as; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00395.html (10,306 bytes)
13. Re: Overdrive (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:53:36 -0500; The overdrive itself was fitted to many different cars. From Volvo to AMC, MG Healey. The laycock unit is identical, in that J type is a J type, a P type is a P type, etc. But, the adapter plate to j; /html/spitfires/2001-11/msg00468.html (7,419 bytes)
14. Re: Hardtop Fit Question - 78 Spit (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 19:48:53 -0400; Perhaps that is the case with yours, but none of my Spitfires have the flapping in the breeze, and none of them have the frame pulled back by the soft top. This includes one that has a well rotted wi; /html/spitfires/2001-10/msg00201.html (9,534 bytes)
15. Re: Spitfire rear spring plans (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 19:55:55 -0400; Man, we better get our camber compensators while we still can! :-) /// spitfires@autox.team.net mailing list /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool; /html/spitfires/2001-10/msg00298.html (7,898 bytes)
16. Re: Triumph trailer hitches (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 21:58:24 -0400; I've made trailer hitches for motorcycles before. It's quite easy to do. bit of square stock, a touch of welding, and you'll have a very solid lightweight hitch (or heavyweight if you should chose it; /html/spitfires/2001-10/msg00502.html (8,111 bytes)
17. Re: Lower A-Arm (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:01:00 -0400; If the upper and lower arm do not describe perfectly parallel arcs, you will experience this type of fatigue failure in the suspension because of the trunion only having two axis of freedom, not thre; /html/spitfires/2001-10/msg00503.html (7,938 bytes)
18. Re: [spitfire-enthusiast] Re: strange vibrations - resolution - (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:06:34 -0400; I have a head that was pulled from a wrecked engine (threw a rod through the block). If you find yours is truly cracked, you're welcome to this one, as long as I can get your cracked one. I'd like to; /html/spitfires/2001-10/msg00504.html (7,395 bytes)
19. custom adjustable swaybars (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 19:43:33 -0400; The subject of having a swaybar made for I think a GT6 rotoflex rear came up a little while ago. Finally found something I knew I'd seen. It's a company that makes custom swaybars, any dimensions, fo; /html/spitfires/2001-10/msg00578.html (7,060 bytes)
20. Re: carb conversions (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 21:01:27 -0400; Yep. Which leads me to suspect the ZS's bad rap has more to do with it's lousy manifold design then anything else. Especially the later ones that had the narrowed down manifold runners.; /html/spitfires/2001-09/msg00037.html (8,213 bytes)

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