Re: Transmission Interchangability

Rich Atherton (gumby(at)connectexpress.com)
Thu, 4 Jun 1998 10:42:28 -0700

When I was in high school, some one tried to steal My Alpine Series IV from out in front of my parents house. I was off to school, jumped in the car, put the key in...a hole in the dash! What the hell? The entire ignition assembly was hanging down under the dash with half of the wires pulled off. The apparently couldn't figure out the Lucas wiring on the car, and they probably jumped out screaming and ran home to mamma! Since I has just put an 8-Track in the car (reversed wired and fully insulated away from the positive grounded car), I knew the wiring on the key switch. Put all the wires right back on, popped it back in the hole, screwed on the ring nut, fired it up, and drove to school. I'm sure I was mumbling something like "...Amateurs...Pro's Fear the Prince of Darkness. Hell we're lucky they run at all!"..

It was the only time anyone tried to steal it.

Rich

-----Original Message----- From: Barrie Henderson <hendersb(at)direct.ca> To: Jarrid Gross (Yorba Linda, CA) <GROSS(at)UNIT.COM> Cc: alpines(at)autox.team.net <alpines(at)autox.team.net>; Tom Hill <tom.hill(at)worldnet.att.net> Date: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 6:26 PM Subject: Re: Transmission Interchangability

>Jarrid Gross (Yorba Linda, CA) wrote:
>>
>> Tom Hill wrote,
>>
>> >Can a series V transmission be used in series II car? What mods, if
>> >any, are required?
>>
>> Good news!
>> Tranny is a bolt in, Use the throw-out fork and throw out bearing
>> from the tranny that is aleady in your SII though, the fork and bearing
>> are for a given clutch setup, and not the type tranny used.
>>
>> Oh, and remember reverse is on the opposite side of the H pattern.
>>
>> Jarrid Gross
>
>
>Having no value to anyone - but I used to take a secret delight in the
>fact that I might thwart any would be thieves of my SIV - with it's SV
>1725 cc and all syncro tranny - by having a pre-syncro gear shift knob -
>showing reverse on the left of the "H" instead of where it really was
>on the right (did I get that right - or is that backwards?).
>
>I had this 'vision' of the thief trying to back it down my driveway onto
>the street (assuming of course he could get it started at all) - and
>turning the whole gearbox into a pile of 'hamburger' in the bottom of
>the case in the process. But he would'nt get My Alpine!
>
>Barrie Henderson