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301. Posting size (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 09:55:58 -0600; I was going to wait until I sent out the end of the month stats to mention this, but some of you might be wondering why Mike apologized. It certainly wasn't the content, as that was most appropriate.; /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00684.html (7,203 bytes)
302. Re: "Sworking" and a lesson learned (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 15:17:48 -0600; Gosh, maybe my success with Triumphs is due to making the blood sacrifice while fermenting extracts of malted barley, appeasing all gods at once. Actually we have put padding on almost all the offend; /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00699.html (7,427 bytes)
303. Re: TR6 clutch woes (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 23:34:29 -0600; Getting the pin out of the clutch fork can be tedious. It depends on where the fracture actually occurs. It will fracture near the pin and crossshaft mating surface, on either end. The first thing to; /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00705.html (8,127 bytes)
304. Re: Midget Cam (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 11:35:44 -0600; You should be able to take off the rocker cover, and with a degree wheel on the crank, a dial indicator on a rocker and a manual with some cam info in it figure out if it is close. If the manuals you; /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00720.html (6,473 bytes)
305. February Volume (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Sun, 1 Mar 92 10:55:12 -0700; 698 messages, 1.4 megs. Considering most of these message come in on weekdays, that is roughly 35 messages each work day, or one every 15 minutes for an eight hour day. So one could surmise that, at; /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00002.html (6,347 bytes)
306. Windows and Whatnot (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Tue, 3 Mar 92 12:18:02 -0700; You know, I've often wondered lately about something. Do you suppose that if this British Cars mailing list was around when Triumph, for example, went from side curtains to (*gasp*) wind-up windows t; /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00066.html (6,895 bytes)
307. This list (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Tue, 3 Mar 92 15:41:01 -0700; I am seriously considering making this list digest only. It is my contention that doing so might cut down on a lot of the useless banter that does little more than aggravate those looking for real in; /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00076.html (7,032 bytes)
308. Ten Commandments (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Tue, 3 Mar 92 23:02:12 -0700; Just read this in the "Desert Octagon", put out by the Tucson MG-T Register. They in turn credit "The Morris Gazette", from the Arizona MG club. Feel free to replace "MG" with your favorite marque if; /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00078.html (7,297 bytes)
309. Further thoughts on the list (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Wed, 4 Mar 92 14:13:21 -0700; This is a somewhat long discussion of the volume question. The bottom line is no changes yet, so if you don't want to wade through this feel free to toss it, you won't log in one morning for a rude s; /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00098.html (14,470 bytes)
310. Yikes! (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Thu, 5 Mar 92 00:15:05 -0700; I'd like to get a Lotus Elan someday, they interest me. I may have to wait a few more paychecks, though. From the March issue of the British Motor Club of Utah's newsletter comes this little tidbit:; /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00100.html (6,248 bytes)
311. Re: OEM GASKET COMPOUNDS (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Fri, 6 Mar 92 10:58:45 -0700; Look for some Permatex "Hylomar" in a local parts place. I, though, do indeed use WellSeal. mjb.; /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00120.html (6,427 bytes)
312. Re: Spit/GT6 conversion (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 13:31:57 -0700; Lowering the engine may be more difficult that you realize. In a GT6 the motor is already resting on the steering rack at the front, where the bonnet clearance trouble exists. If you redesign the ent; /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00196.html (6,946 bytes)
313. Re: Spitfire 1500 (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 23:56:14 -0700; The story thus far: Soon to be former grad student Dennis Wilson asks about engine options for his Spitfire powered Midget. Scott Fisher, a forthright Defender of the Octagon, tries to convince him t; /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00210.html (8,187 bytes)
314. Re: another oil cooler question (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Wed, 11 Mar 92 11:57:13 -0700; Only about two or three places actually make the adapter fittings, and as far as I know none of them have internal thermostat passages. mjb.; /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00218.html (6,314 bytes)
315. Re: GT6 engines (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Wed, 11 Mar 92 12:57:40 -0700; Close, but not quite. The GT6 hit the market in '66 with a 2 liter motor, which was a stoked version of the Vitesse's 1600, which was a Herald/Spitfire motor design stretched to fit two more cylinde; /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00228.html (6,662 bytes)
316. Re: Boring cylinder liners (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Thu, 12 Mar 92 14:29:56 -0700; Spitfires do not normally have liners. Liners are available if the block is already overbored to the limit. You make the holes a little bigger, press in the liners and then bore them to size. mjb.; /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00252.html (6,611 bytes)
317. Interesting weekend. (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Sun, 15 Mar 92 21:27:47 -0700; Maybe I should have videotaped it, as some folks might find it hard to believe. But on a saturday morning, I actually was awake and out of bed before 8 am! Now while that in itself might be worthy of; /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00297.html (7,681 bytes)
318. Cool it! (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 00:54:40 -0700; This message is really about oil coolers, but the subject line did remind me of something. There have been a few personal attacks on this list, and they are not appreciated, nor even welcome. Please; /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00309.html (8,881 bytes)
319. Re: Oops. and a TR4 Tranny question (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 12:33:50 -0700; When the tranny was rebuilt the clutch fork pin was probably broken. Rather than removing the broken bits and getting new ones, they fixed it good. I wouldn't worry about it, at least not until you n; /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00324.html (7,022 bytes)
320. Re: My Spitfire 1500 wants a new carb (score: 1): Author: mjb (Mark Bradakis); Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 10:27:04 -0700; Putting a DCOE or SK carb on the Spitfire may also necessitate getting a exhaust manifold, as there might not be a good way to make the new intake manifold fit with the stock exhaust. A nice header w; /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00481.html (7,730 bytes)

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