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turboeric

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  1. A little deja vu Skip?
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    That type of reaction ferry is still in routine use in B.C. on the North Thompson River and at least 3 places on the Fraser River.
  3. Sell them all and get one newer car that you really want. Of course, all of those seem like new cars to me..... After years of playing with old British crocks, my 92 Miata seems like a new car!
  4. Just to clear up some potential confusion here, there are 2 similarly named Toyos being discussed here: the T1R and the R1R. The T1R is a genuine high performance street tire, with a comfortable ride, decent wet performance and some semblance of tire life. The R1R is a max performance tire aimed at the street tire autocross classes that is much stickier, stiffer and shorter lived. The R1R on the track on heavier cars will blister fairly easily, as it is designed to get heat into it in the short time of an autocross run. I suspect, but don't know, that it would be OK on a 7.
  5. The RA1 is an R compound tire, the T1R is a street tire. Quite different.
  6. Those spectators are idiots!
  7. It was a time when we were expected to use our brains and take responsibility for our own actions. You were expected to allow for longer braking distances when you were towing, and to be gentle on the inputs. If you didn't, and crashed, you were considered to be a silly bugger. If you overdid it and broke something, you fixed it. Now, we need big brother to constantly protect us from ourselves.
  8. Sadly, not for 18,000 pounds.
  9. That's hilarious!
  10. That's true for downshifts, but Senna is doing it while in gear, accelerating in the corner.
  11. I love the news "reporter" claiming that the Corvette crashed at 165 mph! Ummm ... a C4 Vette with a Crown Vic keeping up doing 165? Yeah, right.
  12. I officially hate all you Californians! I spent 3 hours yesterday dealing with 6 inches of snow on top of glare ice on my 1/4 mile long, steep driveway. That was just so we could get the Subaru (with 4 good, winter tires) out onto the road! Blech!
  13. If it's Spitfire stuff, SpitBits is your man. I dealt with him extensively when I had my GT6 Mk 3 - excellent to deal with.
  14. I don't know which Triumph upright you have, but I'd try the Triumph suppliers on this side of the ocean. http://www.spitbits.com/ http://www.mossmotors.com/ http://www.the-roadster-factory.com/indexmain.php
  15. That's not a current Westfield nose cone - the only one with the glassfibre grill bars is the vented nose, which has a big vent at the back of the nose cone, which this one doesn't have. Also, the bonnet isn't like any current Westfield bonnet. Sounds like it's an SV-ish frame, which is bigger. Hard to tell without more info.
  16. How to find the age of a tire: http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=11
  17. Who needs fancy-schmancy robots and lasers, when you have a hammer, a block of wood and your foot!
  18. Are you kidding? Having a wife who says "Alright, enough chat. Let's go for a quick one!" would be awesome! Vicki Butler-Henderson is amazing. Oh, so are the cars. :jester:
  19. The Dec 2010 issue of Grassroots Motorsports has an article comparing the dyno output for a Civic Si using a Supertrapp in various configurations vs 3 Burns mufflers: a 17 and a 22 inch, and a 2 stage. The Burns mufflers performed extremely well, staying under 93 dB while making the best peak hp. They said nice things about the construction quality and the sound. No comparison info other than to the Supertrapp, which wasn't impressive.
  20. They could probably get into a 7 with the top up!
  21. The Cayenne Turbo is certainly fast, but it is the diametric opposite of the Lotus Seven. The Cayenne is the apogee of "add weight and complicate" - hence the lead comment. 5724 pounds - the weight of 5 or 6 Sevens.
  22. Interesting. Not only is the Lotus 7 the purest, it's also the lightest. In the real periodic table, that spot is occupied by H (hydrogen). An ionized hydrogen atom is a proton - the name of the Malaysian company that owns Lotus. Coincidence or conspiracy? I also note that the Porsche Boxster is given the symbol Pb, which in the real periodic table is lead. Wouldn't lead be more symbolic of the Porsche Cayenne?
  23. I loved watching the external valve train working. Amazing.
  24. I do have a commute like that, but right now it's lined with snow banks and the road is covered with the gravel that the highways contractors pass off as sand.:ack: Truck time...
  25. I'd strongly recommend padding that bar so that you don't suffer the ironic end of being killed by your safety equipment. Normal SFI 45.1 padding is designed for cushioning impacts by helmets, not unprotected noggins. The "pipe insulation" style padding you frequently see, isn't tough enough to sustain a helmet impact. For a car driven both with and without a helmet, the best product that I'm aware of is the dual durometer padding that BSCI sells. Roll Bar Padding If you've ever looked at slow motion video of crashes, it's astonishing how much the head moves around. From your pictures, you will definitely contact the bar in a crash.
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