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1. Racing with overdrives (score: 1): Author: Gt6steve@aol.com; Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:21:54 EST; Does anyone know and care to share experience on what to do to the D or J type laycock overdrives to beef them for racing. I'm sure higher hydraulic pressures are in order but I don't know much beyon; /html/fot/2000-01/msg00267.html (7,320 bytes)
2. Re: Racing with overdrives (score: 1): Author: WEmery7451@aol.com; Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:30:46 EST; I have been using the overdrive units fitted to the TR-3/4 gear boxes for about 3 1/2 decades. I am not sure if this information applies to GT-6 overdrives. Someone from British Leyland (Michael Bar; /html/fot/2000-01/msg00278.html (8,664 bytes)
3. Re: Racing with overdrives (score: 1): Author: BillDentin@aol.com; Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:47:19 EST; << Periodically, my OD unit would quit working. I would take it apart and find nothing wrong, reassemble it, and it would start working again. Since I started using Ams Oil 80W-90 gear lube, I have h; /html/fot/2000-01/msg00279.html (8,078 bytes)
4. Re: Racing with overdrives (score: 1): Author: Bob Lang <LANG@isis.mit.edu>; Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 14:49:16 -0400 (EDT); Bill, Thanks for the info... But could you explain the rationale behind this statement: I assume this is to mean use the 4.11 instead of a 4.30 or 4.55 or whatever. Is that what you mean? regards, rm; /html/fot/2000-01/msg00281.html (8,337 bytes)
5. Re: Racing with overdrives (score: 1): Author: WEmery7451@aol.com; Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:40:43 EST; << I assume this is to mean use the 4.11 instead of a 4.30 or 4.55 or whatever. Is that what you mean? >> That is what I mean, Bob. My best times at the Ledges in the late 70's and early 80's took pl; /html/fot/2000-01/msg00282.html (8,354 bytes)
6. Re: Racing with overdrives (score: 1): Author: Gt6steve@aol.com; Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:33:55 EST; << >> Steve, I'm curious. I can't guess why you would want to race vintage with an overdrive gearbox. First, they are about 25 lbs heaver than a standard gearbox (at least in the MGB). Do you serious; /html/fot/2000-01/msg00319.html (9,583 bytes)
7. Re: Racing with overdrives (score: 1): Author: "Bill Sohl" <billsohl@smtp.interactive.net>; Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:19:18 +0000; I hope there are some answers to the question you asked. Seems to me the first order of business for any Vintage Racer is making the car and drivetrain as "bullet proof" as possible. That to me goes; /html/fot/2000-01/msg00320.html (10,852 bytes)
8. Re: Racing with overdrives (score: 1): Author: "James Lee" <lee-cc@worldnet.att.net>; Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:36:43 -0600; I raced my TR4 in the Midwest for 12 years with an overdrive most of the time. I did use a regular 4 speed for a short time but didn't like it as well. The only problem I ever had was a few gasket le; /html/fot/2000-01/msg00321.html (12,372 bytes)
9. Re: Racing with overdrives (score: 1): Author: "R. Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:10:45 -0800; Though at times it is a pain in the neck to get operating properly (or at all) the O.D. gives a BIG advantage in that you can have a selection of gears (make that 2) for almost any corner. Getting th; /html/fot/2000-01/msg00322.html (10,842 bytes)
10. RE: Racing with overdrives (score: 1): Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>; Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:55:32 -0500; For reference, my TR-4A was always quicker at long tracks (Road Atlanta and Elkhart Lake) with the overdrive gearbox. I used the Dolomite Sprint close ratio gears. But even with these, when geared pr; /html/fot/2000-01/msg00325.html (10,485 bytes)
11. RE: Racing with overdrives (score: 1): Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@seidata.com>; Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 07:01:59 -0500; There is nothing inherently unreliable with the Triumph A-Type overdrive. In 24 years of racing with one, I never once had a mechanical failure. I was using an overdrive when I won the runoffs in 199; /html/fot/2000-01/msg00326.html (11,528 bytes)
12. Re: Racing with overdrives (score: 1): Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@server1.mail.virginia.edu>; Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 07:20:28 -0500; Hi all, That's certainly been my experience with my autocross car - especially after J.K. Jackson tweaked the 'box and gave it his magic touch. I find that I use 2nd OD a lot on our smaller courses a; /html/fot/2000-01/msg00327.html (8,792 bytes)
13. Re: Racing with overdrives (score: 1): Author: BillDentin@aol.com; Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:35:04 EST; Steve, your points are well taken, especially added weight, but also with all that added stuff spinning around, more than not it becomes A (if not THE) weak link in the chain. In a TR, with a 4:55 r; /html/fot/2000-01/msg00329.html (8,132 bytes)
14. Re: Racing with overdrives (score: 1): Author: Bob Lang <LANG@isis.mit.edu>; Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:42:18 -0400 (EDT); I also concur with the A-type afficionados... I'm in the process of getting one together. Having driven John L's car in FL, I can say that the _instant_ shift from 2nd to 2nd-O/D makes for rapid acc; /html/fot/2000-01/msg00330.html (8,456 bytes)
15. Re: Racing with overdrives (score: 1): Author: Bob Lang <LANG@isis.mit.edu>; Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:42:25 -0400 (EDT); ...and don't forget to change the "fluif" That obviously should have been "thumbs up". Sheesh. rml -- Bob Lang Room N42-140Q | This space for rent. Consultant MIT Computer Services | Voice: (617)253-; /html/fot/2000-01/msg00331.html (7,769 bytes)
16. Re: Racing with overdrives (score: 1): Author: Richard Taylor <n196x@mindspring.com>; Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:13:37 -0500; One more Overdrive comment: As some of you'll know, my M.O. is to drive my TR-4 to the race, remove windshield, fix everything that broke gettin' to the track, mount my race tires then race. On the; /html/fot/2000-01/msg00339.html (8,945 bytes)

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