- 1. Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: Lancer7676@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 08:13:14 EDT
- I have been undecided as to the direction to go with my LBC's and have been considering a possiblity. I would like some input from the list. I have a good running 1979 Midget. I bought the Midget in
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01061.html (9,922 bytes)
- 2. Re: Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: Ajhsys@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 11:07:05 EDT
- << now I am thinking of turning it into an Autocross car. >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The first thing you need to do is to find out what class you will be running the car in, then see what mod
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01066.html (9,608 bytes)
- 3. Re: Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Williams <redfish@premier.net>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 12:28:20 -0500
- The first thing I would do is call the SCCA 1-303-694-SCCA (7222) and order a 2 rule book. This will tell you what you can and can't do with your car and be legal for whichever class you decide to co
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01078.html (11,059 bytes)
- 4. Re: Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: Lancer7676@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 18:36:23 EDT
- Rick--Thanks for the reply--Between you and Allen I have already been putting this thing together in my mind. And I havent gotten through all my mail yet. So far, it seems I should work toward a stre
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01081.html (8,785 bytes)
- 5. Re: Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Shipman <mbelect@mindspring.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 19:22:45 -0400
- Hi Autocrossers, I'm curious... how do spridgets do in the ESP/DSP class competitions? How do they stack-up against the modern iron? Richard Shipman '74 Midget '68 MGBGT '58 Morris Minor 1000
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01082.html (8,487 bytes)
- 6. Re: Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: Lancer7676@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 20:26:34 EDT
- Thanks Scott--I appreciate the time it took to put this together--lots of information that will help me. I hope others are benefitting frrom your experience as well. --David
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01084.html (8,580 bytes)
- 7. Re: Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: VolksPEZ@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 22:01:25 EDT
- I run in DP and locally its real competitive...however I think if I ever ran this car at anything but a local event I would get bumped to Modified. Properly prepared the spridget is the closest thing
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01090.html (8,843 bytes)
- 8. Re: Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: "Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott" <toobmany@bigpond.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 20:03:49 +1000
- Two things Don't make your engine too peaky Morris Minor diffs are 4.55:1 and will do the job nicely. If you can run to a Quaiffe centre as well it will be very tasty. Peter I have been undecided as
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01099.html (11,193 bytes)
- 9. Re: Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: Ajhsys@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 09:13:22 EDT
- << Hi Autocrossers, I'm curious... how do spridgets do in the ESP/DSP class competitions? How do they stack-up against the modern iron? >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The best thi
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01104.html (9,337 bytes)
- 10. Re: Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: VolksPEZ@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:31:04 EDT
- << If you can run to a Quaiffe centre as well it will be very tasty. >> Oh yes, VERY tasty :) Love mine!
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01106.html (8,205 bytes)
- 11. RE: Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 09:29:04 -0500
- You already have good advice, so I'll just add a "me too" D Street Prepared is a good low-cost way to play (I'm going to assume you mean SCCA even though I don't autox SCCA; I play with an ancient lo
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01109.html (14,889 bytes)
- 12. RE: Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:32:16 -0500
- The Quaiffe is very nice but expensive, I wish I had one. The Morris Minor rear diffs are not allowed in SCCA Solo2 Street Prepared unless they were available fron the factory in a Spridget. (that'll
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01111.html (11,554 bytes)
- 13. Re: Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:42:06 -0700
- Not to sound like Oscar Wilde, but that is also the *worst* thing about autocross. :-) At least at the beginning, when you drive the wheels off your car and someone in the same kind of car is ten sec
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01112.html (10,197 bytes)
- 14. Re: Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: HFC <froggi@cdsnet.net>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:37:02 -0700
- If the '73 Midget is a "round-arch", I'd go for restoration. Not many around and next to the Bugeye, the most sought after. WFO Herb
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01118.html (12,530 bytes)
- 15. Re: Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 14:16:45 -0700
- Yes. Do the bodywork last. (Structural rust repairs not included.) Start with suspension and tires, then engine work, then gearing. You will have more fun, learn more, and eventually drive faster in
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01121.html (20,293 bytes)
- 16. Re: Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: Paul A Asgeirsson <pasgeirsson@juno.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 16:30:20 EDT
- On Wed, 19 May 1999 10:32:16 -0500 Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com> The 4.55:1 was shipped on the 948 powered bugeye. The 5.38:1 was not. Paul PAsgeirsson@juno.com
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01122.html (8,592 bytes)
- 17. Re: Autocross car preparation. (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Snowdon <racer45@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 19:55:35 -0700
- I didn't think of that. I have two of them, and I was thinking of AutoX one of them as well, and doing a full restoration on the other. Now your have me thinking.... Mark Snowdon Greensboro NC 69 Spr
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01127.html (9,307 bytes)
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