[Healeys] Healey 100 Mods
Bob Spidell
bspidell at comcast.net
Wed Feb 19 09:10:32 MST 2025
Damn. But good to know.
Thanks Michael.
Bob
On 2/19/2025 6:17 AM, Michael Salter wrote:
> Having just received a shipment of parts yesterday from AH Spares, of
> whom I have been a customer for over 50 years, I'm sorry to say that I
> would now be very reluctant to purchase something as safety critical
> as a front brake kit from them.
> Unfortunately, based upon my experience with several suppliers over
> the years, as companies get larger they are inclined to emphasize
> volume over quality and AH Spares seem to be tracing that path.
>
> M
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>
> On Tue., Feb. 18, 2025, 10:50 p.m. Bob Spidell via Healeys,
> <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
> 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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