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Re: [Spridgets] What is still there?

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Subject: Re: [Spridgets] What is still there?
From: "Paul Van Wig" <pvanwig@charter.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:54:29 -0800
Save that newer and improved smoke for the wiring harness.

 

 

Paul Van Wig

 

-----Original Message-----
From: spridgets-bounces+pvanwig=charter.net@autox.team.net
[mailto:spridgets-bounces+pvanwig=charter.net@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of 
David Lieb
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:00 AM
To: Spridget List
Subject: [Spridgets] What is still there?

 

Whilst driving my Midget back to Chicagoland from Mobile, AL on Sunday I was 

thinking about Spridgets and started trying to come up with a list of parts 

that are the same on my RWA Midget as they were on a Bugeye. I am not 

talking about similar or interchangeable, I am talking identical... It is a 

very short list so far.

 

The engine is larger

The trans was changed

The front brakes went to disks

The rear brakes went to double-acting cylinders

The diff ratio is different as well as the semi-elliptic housing and the 

hardened axles

Most of the exterior sheet metal has changed

Bumpers are different

Dash is different

Most of the instruments have changed as well as the switches

Seats have changed

Top has changed

Steering column and wheel are different

Wiring diagrams bear very little similarity to each other

Wheels are different

Front suspension is similar, but there are significant differences in 

kingpins and a-arms

 

I suppose the wheel bearings and the rear brake shoes are pretty much the 

same?

 

I guess that if I were trying to create a concours Bugeye, there would not 

be many parts of an RWA that I could use...

David Lieb

1972 RWA Midget 
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