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Re: TD gear change

To: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Subject: Re: TD gear change
From: Bud Krueger <budkrueger@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:36:38 -0400
Well said, Bob.  My feelings exactly.

Bud Krueger (Plymouth, Mass.)
52TD

Bob Howard wrote:

>Blake,
>  My memory is that you live in the wide open spaces of western USA. 
>Along the east coast there are places where even the byways have become
>fast roads.  Posted limits of 50 mean 'drive at 60+'.   Roads that
>actually lead somewhere, the ones necessary to get to MG events for
>example, are fast roads shared with crowds of SUVs and tractor trailers. 
> It's not that an MG driver chooses them for relaxing driving, it's that
>he must use them if he wants to get somewhere. F'rinstance---a RR 20/25
>driver here in town (Guilford, CT, 15 mi east of New Haven) goes to Deer
>Isle, ME every summer.  Thanks to his relaxed schedule, he can take
>byways all the way to Bangor, then on down to Deer Isle. He uses three
>full days to do it. Were he not a professor at Yale, he would most likely
>not have the time. From here to Boston takes a full ten hours by byway.  
>And even then, the secondary roads join the primary roads and interstates
>to cross rivers.  It is not at all unusual to have a two mile backup of
>traffic where Rte 1 joins the interstate I-95 to cross the Connecticut
>River. 
>  My thought on this debate is that the change of ratios is necessary if
>one wants to be able to drive his TD on radial tires in this part of the
>country.  One finds that he needs to set up his car for the driving
>conditions of the area.  I don't think it's a cost issue so much as a
>not-being-run-over issue. 
>Bob
>
>
>On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 15:24:29 -0500 Bullwinkle <yd3@nvc.net> writes:
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>>I have a Stage 2 TD with a 4.875 rear gears.  I don't know how much 
>>wind you guys have, or hills, but there has been many occasions when
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>the
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>>engine will barely pull 60 MPH against a strong head wind.  It might 
>>be okay for those limited access roads, but there are none where I 
>>live.  I need to have some accelleration to get by the gray hairs going
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>50 in 
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>>a 55 or 65 MPH zone.  So, I live with the 3,800 RPMS at 60 MPH.  
>>Besides just how much interstate cruising do you need to do to offset
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>the 
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>>cost of installation?  Isn't the freeway drive the antithesis of what 
>>these cars were made for?
>>
>>Blake

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