Spitfire performance rear axles!
Keep Triumphing,
Susan :)
racespit@netzero.com
Original Message:
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From: andrew stark whitedog72@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 14:06:42
To: sbarr@mccarty-law.com, FOT@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Southwick -- new projects?
I would be very interested in GT-6 axles to replace my rotoflex . At this
point I am taking them apart yearly and replacing every thing just to be
safe . I am only autocrossing and have this concern . I will just plain
sweat when I am on the real track . The rotoflex is really a funny design .
Andy
>From: "Barr, Scott" <sbarr@mccarty-law.com>
>Reply-To: "Barr, Scott" <sbarr@mccarty-law.com>
>To: "'FOT@autox.team.net'" <FOT@autox.team.net>
>Subject: RE: Southwick -- new projects?
>Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:45:46 -0500
>
><< Their last question of me was "What kind of project are you guys going
>to
>come
>up with next?" and I didn't have an answer. Any ideas? >>
>
>Why, yes! I'm still looking to solve the GT6 rear outer axle concern.
>Short story is that (according to old GT6 racers) the rear axles and hubs
>on
>the rotoflex GT6 have a tendency to break off and roll you up in a ball.
>Many of the rotoflex cars have been converted to Corvair axles, 240Z axles
>and all sorts of other fixes. Steve Smith's car is an example of a nicely
>done conversion (240Z, right Steve?).
>
>Perhaps there'd be some interest in a replacement axle and hub? This might
>a shorter list of participants, given the small number of rotoflex GT6s
>running around racetracks. On the other hand, PRI promised to get working
>on this a year ago. I haven't heard anything from them. Maybe they'd be
>interested in buying up a few sets and selling them from their site?
>
>Scott Barr
>sbarr@mccarty-law.com <mailto:sbarr@mccarty-law.com>
>(920) 766-4693
>(920) 766-4756 (fax)
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jack W. Drews [mailto:vinttr4@geneseo.net]
>Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 3:10 AM
>To: Ronald R Gates
>Cc: fot@autox.team.net; vintage-race@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: aluminum hubs - last call
>
>
>Ronald R Gates wrote:
>
> > I recieved my Southwich hubs this past week and looked them over and i
>am
> > very satisfied with their work and they look cool ! All of the Southwick
> > conversion parts we have put on our car have worked and are very well
>made
> > . The biggest thing is everything on the car was changed for safety
> > reasons and the performance part was just a bonus ! and do not forget
>the
> > prices are very reasonable .
> >
> > Pete
>
>Thanks for the feedback. One of the best things that came out of my car
>wreck
>was becoming friends with these Southwick guys. Every visit to their shop
>is
>fun. They're car-and motorcycle- nuts. Bob Southwick just bought a Dodge
>V-10
>engine at an auction and is busy inserting it in his little Dakota pickup
>just
>because it's a fun thing to do. His chief machinist just made some parts
>for
>a
>1910 motorcycle engine, of which there is only one known example. Once when
>I
>was there they had a humongous rollcage ready to install -- on the OUTSIDE
>of a
>4WD truck used for rock-climbing. A couple of weeks ago they had a John
>Deere
>combine all disassembled and cut up -- they contracted to make one of those
>operating cutaways you see at shows with all the innards chrome plated.
>They
>also were the prime contractor for a new agricultural equipment exhibit at
>Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
>
>My own latest personal adventure with them was -- I had one week in which
>to
>rebuild my engine after a disaster. The piston rings I purchased were in
>inch
>measurements and I found that the piston ring grooves were metric, so the
>rings
>wouldn't go in because of the .001 to .0015 interference. I took the rings
>to
>them and asked if they could machine them down by a thou. They laughed and
>said
>they'd never heard of that, but "why not?" They made soe quick tooling and
>had
>at it. I arrived at their shop at 3:00 that afternoon and by 4:30 they had
>ground the top two rings down by .0015 apiece. They work like a charm.
>
>Their last question of me was "What kind of project are you guys going to
>come
>up with next?" and I didn't have an answer. Any ideas?
>
>
>--
>
>uncle jack and New Blue
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