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101. Re: storage garages (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 20:25:54 -0500; Consider fabricating your own. You can build one a whole lot bigger, for a whole lot less money. I've got a 12'x20' greenhouse type shed that cost about $20 to make. It's a greenhouse like structure.; /html/spitfires/2000-12/msg00370.html (8,908 bytes)
102. Re: 1975-1980 Ebay Spit (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 19:31:10 -0500; The car probably is actually a 1980, faked as a 1975 from a parts car title and vin tag to get around emissions. My 1980 is listed to the MVA as a 1980 only because I'm running historical tags. If I; /html/spitfires/2000-12/msg00412.html (8,099 bytes)
103. Re: 1975-1980 Ebay Spit (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 12:56:59 -0500; Almost everything we do with our Spitfires is gloriously illegal. From how we drive them, to how we maintain or modify them. I'm just not going to worry that "Big Brother" could see my message about; /html/spitfires/2000-12/msg00426.html (7,376 bytes)
104. Re: Removing front pulley (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:34:19 -0500; Rope trick works wonders. You lock the engine up with some rope stuffed into a cylinder that has the piston at the bottom of the stroke, and the valves closed. Easiest to do it with all the spark plu; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00317.html (7,524 bytes)
105. Re: O/D knob (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:45:30 -0500; I've seen that shifter Paul has, and the web pictures don't do it justice. It's really a nice execution.; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00436.html (10,300 bytes)
106. Re: warning light and alternator (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:42:47 -0500; Off hand, I'd suspect your voltage regulator.; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00459.html (8,807 bytes)
107. Re: Chrome or black trim ?? comment? Parkerized (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 22:28:08 -0500; Na, parkerization is flat and rather ugly. Lots of my guns are parkerized, and they aren't pretty like the black on my Spitfire trim. Having had that trim off, I noticed that the coating is *not* on; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00527.html (7,344 bytes)
108. Re: Engine Rebuild (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 22:56:25 -0500; There's an old saying "speed costs money, how fast can you afford to go?" It's as valid today, with you, as it was then. If you've got the money, you can get 10,000 horsepower out of that engine. Gon; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00528.html (9,296 bytes)
109. Re: Engine Rebuild (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:31:18 -0500; It decreaases gas flow. Roughly like putting to big a pipe on.; /html/spitfires/2000-11/msg00545.html (16,739 bytes)
110. Re: clutch seizure (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 22:24:20 -0400; Considering how cheap a replacement master cylinder is, I'd question the cost of going the sleeve and rebuild route.; /html/spitfires/2000-10/msg00107.html (7,270 bytes)
111. Re: Drive Shaft compatibility (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 22:27:50 -0400; I think it will. I believe Rimmer's shows these two replacement driveshafts as having the same part number. You're not going to have the correct type of joints for the 72, but what the heck.; /html/spitfires/2000-10/msg00108.html (7,049 bytes)
112. Re: whining noise (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 21:12:00 -0400; Are you sure it's coming from the left side of the car, and not the center? If you're positive it's from the left, that's axle bearing territory. If you're not sure, then it's more likely it's the di; /html/spitfires/2000-10/msg00586.html (8,878 bytes)
113. Re: [spitfire-enthusiast] Re: Door handle seals and # of spacers on (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 19:05:25 -0400; I'd be *very* cautious about trying to tweak caster by using uneven numbers of mounting the lower control arm. That's a dandy way to break a trunion. The unparallel arcs that would result in the uppe; /html/spitfires/2000-10/msg00639.html (7,207 bytes)
114. Re: Door handle seals and # of spacers on A-arms (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:09:20 -0400; Paul, what you've learned applies to suspensions with double ball joints, as I described, not to trunion suspensions. A trunion can pivot about two axis only. Without the third axis of rotation, it b; /html/spitfires/2000-10/msg00680.html (11,569 bytes)
115. Re: 1500 Cylinder head (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:20:45 -0400; 125-135 hp naturally aspired should still be quite streetable. 150+ would be progressively less streetable. But go with a turbo or supercharger, and you can get power like that and keep it quite stre; /html/spitfires/2000-10/msg00681.html (10,192 bytes)
116. Re: Drain Plug Location (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:24:35 -0400; Once again, Motorhead is wrong. What a shock. (Dripping with sarcasm, based on previous experiences with Motorhead); /html/spitfires/2000-10/msg00682.html (8,460 bytes)
117. Re: Door handle seals and # of spacers on A-arms (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 20:46:07 -0500; Eh? They've all got a ball joint at the bottom, not a trunion.; /html/spitfires/2000-10/msg00695.html (7,484 bytes)
118. Making an ignition box (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 20:55:42 -0500; My 1980 Spitfire is equipped with a lucas electronic ignition. The one with the little black box that sits on the firewall. Mine is happily corroding itself into nothingness. Being somewhat a skinfli; /html/spitfires/2000-10/msg00696.html (8,414 bytes)
119. Re: [spitfire-enthusiast] Re: Door handle seals and # of spacers on (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 00:16:10 -0400; Calm down Paul, it'll be better in the morning. :-); /html/spitfires/2000-10/msg00699.html (7,451 bytes)
120. Re: Altenator gave up the electrons (score: 1): Author: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>; Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 00:00:06 -0400; It's the 10SI delco alternator. GM was quite generic from the sixties through the eighties with their alternator. Mine is the 60 amp unit, think it was listed as fitting a 73 Silverado truck or such.; /html/spitfires/2000-09/msg00067.html (10,643 bytes)

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