----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Sutter" <mjsutter@cts.com>
To: "The List" <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 10:18 AM
Subject: Not quite Irrelevant
> "No. He put a brand X motor in a Datsun 240Z.
> The fact that the truck calipers were a bolt on to a Z is completely
> irrelevant to Tigers too."
> Erich
>
>
> Not quite irrelevant, if you've owned a Jap sports car like a SPL or an
SRL
> you know that initially, all that the Japanese manufacturers did was copy
a
> lot of the British parts to make their cars. My SRL 311's (read 2000
Sports)
> brakes were a direct knock-off of the Girling systems. And Triumph timing
> chain tensioners bolt right into the U-20 OHC motor. Maybe the Z brakes
are
> the same.
>
> Mike
Okay, I can go for tenuously relevant.
I'll let somebody else do the legwork to figure out if those brakes will fit
or not.
Erich
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