[Healeys] Healey 100 Mods
Bob Spidell
bspidell at comcast.net
Tue Feb 18 20:32:34 MST 2025
Sooooooooooooo ... no one's installed the AHSpares front disk kit?
On 2/18/2025 5:02 PM, Tom Mitchell wrote:
> I love absolutely love driving my Healey, I’ve driven from Michigan to
> North and south Carolina, to Vermont to south Dacoda, to North
> Carolina, back and forth to Kentucky and beyond.
> I’ve done a few reversible upgrades.
> Alternator, additional fuses, halogen headlights Toyota transmission,
> third brake light, even (gasp) cruise control. I want my kids and
> grandkids to be able to drive it.
> It’s needs a new or rebuilt frame, maybe one day. In the meantime I’m
> driving the heck out of it.
> I’m in my early 70s, love working on it, but the fatigue of driving it
> is costing me.
> I have Mieka seats (not installed) so maybe (my wife doesn’t like them).
> Everything is (so far) easily reversible.
>
> Dr.Mitchell's Gmail
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM Robert Markovich via Healeys
> <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
> I believe in keeping my Healey ESSENTIALLY original. But here in
> America, I like driving it, often to gatherings 100 or more miles
> away. New radial tires add safety and handling while looking
> mostly original—and old as they are, Healeys still handle
> surprisingly well, especially on a smooth road. And alternator
> will charge a battery far better than the standard generator while
> a modern fuel pump is likelier to keep working—two examples of
> upgrades that maintain the original feel of the car while reducing
> the chance of being stuck on the roadside. So I maintain my belief
> in at least a few sympathetic upgrades to allow my Healey to spend
> more time on the road and less time at a service station.
>
>
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> On Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 1:14 PM, josef-eckert--- via
> Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
> Bob,
> Your Austin-Healey is not a modern car and never will be again
> and so handles like an 70 years old car. That´s what it should
> be and I am really happy my 100 handles "vintage" what makes
> it even more attractive to me. My point is, this modifications
> are like a face lifting to a human beeing. It doesn´t make
> things better, even worse as it makes an stylish old lady
> doubtful.
> When it comes to selling, leave the car original and you would
> get a better price compared to a modified bitser, at least
> here in Europe. Here in Europe you rarely would drive an
> Austin-Healey over long distances anymore, even its fitted
> with the newest gimmicks nobody really needs.
>
> Josef Eckert
> Germany
>
>
> -----Original-Nachricht-----
> Betreff: [Healeys] Healey 100 Mods
> Datum: 2025-02-18T18:29:33+0100
> Von: "Bob Spidell via Healeys" <healeys at autox.team.net>
> An: "Healeys" <healeys at autox.team.net>
>
> The current discussion re: "What should us old f***s do with
> our Healeys
> when we're too decrepit to drive them and the kids and grandkids
> (mostly) want nothing to do with them"--and related to a
> couple ads I've
> gotten recently from AHSpares--got me to thinking. I've
> largely kept the
> 100M my dad found in the local newspaper that we restored
> together
> original, but now I'm thinking, pursuant to that conversation,
> why not
> make some 'tweaks' to improve its drive-ability, since it
> won't end up a
> museum piece anyway? In particular: the brakes suck. They're all
> new/refurbished, and stop well enough for drums, but pull
> badly and no
> amount of adjustment makes any difference (my dad's '65
> Mustang, with
> all drums, was even worse, and I advised the guy who bought it to
> install front disks since it was to be his teenage daughter's
> car).
> 'Spares also hit me with an ad for an upgraded Panhard kit, which
> supposedly improves handling--though, besides the brakes I
> have no
> issues with its handling--but, why not (since I'll be shipping
> across
> The Pond anyway)?
>
> Anyway, anyone got experience with either of these mods, esp.
> the brake
> kit (the rotors look a little thin compared to my BJ8's)?
> FWIW, I'll be
> 72 this year but can still drive well enough to wrangle a 480HP
> Mustang--my wife might disagree--and I'm considering re-upping
> my pilot
> medical (which, if I'm successful, should tell me something
> about my
> fitness).
>
> bs
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