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Re: [spitfire-enthusiast] height of the car?

To: "Atwell Haines" <carbuff@nac.net>, <spitfire-enthusiast@egroups.com>,
Subject: Re: [spitfire-enthusiast] height of the car?
From: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@pangea.ca>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 16:50:33 -0600
Hi Atwell and list,

You may be wrong and just not know it.  Check to see if you have a packing
spacer between the chassis and top of spring unit on the driver's side.  I
KNOW the GT6 came with this because I have one.  It is about 3/8" in
thickness and will raise the car that much.  When you sit in it, the car
will be level and "proper".

...talk about "weight jacking in NASCAR"??? Hell, TR used it decades ago!

Dave T
Winterpeg
-----Original Message-----
From: Atwell Haines <carbuff@nac.net>
To: spitfire-enthusiast@egroups.com <spitfire-enthusiast@egroups.com>;
spitfires@autox.team.net <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Cc: tthorn@comp.uark.edu <tthorn@comp.uark.edu>
Date: January 21, 1999 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [spitfire-enthusiast] height of the car?


>As promised, I have measured the distance from the bottom of the wheel arch
>to the top of the wheel rim on my Spitfire (unladen). It has a one-year-old
>swing spring (2000 miles).   Results:
>
>Passenger side: 5 1/2 inches
>Driver side: 5 7/16 inches
>
>As you can see, my spring is settling already.   :(     I blame it on too
>much holiday food!   <wink>
>
>
>Atwell Haines (you can call me "Chubby")
>'79 Spitfire
>Succasunna, NJ USA
>
>
>
>At 09:29 PM 1/10/99 -0600, Toni Thorn wrote:
>>Well, I've done the air shocks (with many many tks to several of you!!)
>>and gotta say that I like what I got!
>>
>>In fooling around with them, I started wondering what the actual height of
>>the body is *supposed* to be.  I looked in the manuals that I have (Hayden
>>and Bentley) and found just about everything except what I was looking
>>for.
>
>


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