[Spridgets] SpriteSpot

Mike Rambour lists at dinospider.com
Thu Apr 5 09:10:37 MDT 2018


  Yup, that pic is the club :)  Far right is club Editor Phillip and 
next to him is our club President, the blue car is 35 Le Mans and the 
green one is 34 (I think).

  A spridget motor/gearbox drops right into the frame with NO 
cutting/welding on the original Singer frame.   Have to fabricate a 
rather easy to do front motor mount bracket and drop the whole works 
in.   The only hard part is converting the gearbox side plate since 
there is a attachment directly on the Singer gearbox for the parking 
brake but we have good drawings/instructions on that process. Since 
Spridget rear axles are stronger than 1930's Singer axle, take the axle 
shafts in to a machine shop, have them snip off about 1/2" from the ends 
and lengthen the splines back to normal and drop the whole thing, 
pumpkin and shafts right into the Singer axle housing.  That way you use 
the Singer backing plates for the brakes, etc. and no mods for the 
mounting of the rear axle.

  The only cosmetic issue comes from the tachometer on the dash, on the 
Singer the tach is mechanical and rotates the wrong way, so you either 
lose the tach or get a new face with the numbers going the Spridget way 
and convert the guts but a Singer guy will know its wrong just by 
looking at the dash.  Not a big deal since my car IF it ever gets 
finished will have megasquirt and other new things so it wont be 
original.  I just have to finish the Austin Mini Cooper before I work on 
my Singer.

  We are a small group but I think fairly active for a less than 100 
group.  Stowe is a long way from S. Calif. but I have been a few times.  
Our forum gets a few posts a day, nothing big but its steady.

     mike

On 4/5/2018 7:46 AM, HealeyRick wrote:
> I don't know much about Singers, but for such a small owner's group 
> they always have a great turn-out at the British Invasion in Stowe and 
> put up a great display.  This one of a Brooklands pit is from 2007, 
> but they do one every year that I really look forward to seeing.
>
> Rick Neville
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 5:56 PM Mike Rambour via Spridgets 
> <spridgets at autox.team.net <mailto:spridgets at autox.team.net>> wrote:
>
>
>      Makes no sense...someone is paying money for this website.
>
>      I run a small web forum for Singer cars, we don't have a lot of
>     activity as you can imagine but it costs me money to do this and I
>     would never let it die...if I ever get tired of doing it (been
>     there many times due to club politics) I would find someone to
>     take it over but not keep paying for it and do nothing with it.
>
>       Maybe I should make a Sprite sub-forum since so many Singer's
>     get Spridget re-powered :)
>
>          mike
>
>     On 4/4/2018 12:35 PM, Rick Fisk via Spridgets wrote:
>>     Hi George,
>>
>>     I just followed the instructions on the Spritespot website. Got
>>     me nowhere though.
>>
>>     The last time an admin posted anything on the website was a
>>     couple of years ago.  Most forums have gone a couple of years
>>     with no posts as well.
>>
>>     Rick
>>
>>     Sent from my keyboard
>
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