--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E3I00003 Date: 03/13/97 From: GERRY CALHOUN Time: 11:30am \/To: ALEXANDER BILAN (Read 0 times) Subj: Rims > > 337 engines. Me, I, Personally, wish they'd drop ALL the mags in > the> nearest blast furnace and let us have HEI > electronic ignitions on > > aircraft engines. This magneto business is > rediculous. > > > Why not just up an make your own? Lop the guts out of > a mag and retrofit the > HEI guts? Just as with racing, you can put in a > switchable redundant > electronic module elsewhere in the plane. Unless you want to spend a couple hundred thousand for a STC (Supplimental Type Certificate) you will have a plane that is classified as "expermental". Expermental means you lose a lot of usefullness from the A/C (no pasengers for hire among others). Gerry --- * Origin: PETS R US! - 805-946-8345 - Lancaster, CA (1:2004/201) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E3I00004 Date: 03/13/97 From: GERRY CALHOUN Time: 11:35am \/To: ANDREW HARTE (Read 0 times) Subj: Years? Hi Andrew, > I would like to know what all you folks call old > cars...reason i ask is > because, some people call old 60-70's while others > call old in the 40's > and stuff...for my opinion i call old about 65-78 > about and classic > before 65 i guess. I personally call old anything from the 50's and before. For this echo I set a cut-off year of '77 though. anything from '77 and before is on topic. Gerry Calhoun - moderator --- * Origin: PETS R US! - 805-946-8345 - Lancaster, CA (1:2004/201) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E3I00005 Date: 03/14/97 From: MODERATOR Time: 12:10am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Rules of the OLDCARS Echo Rules for FidoNet's OLDCARS Echo *** Revised 3-18-96 *** The following are the rules for the OLDCARS FIDO-NET echo conference. This conference is carried on the FIDO-NET backbone and is moderated by Gerry Calhoun at 1:2004/200. These rules will be subject to change if a change seems needed or is requested. Enforcement of the rules will be handled in the echo and/or via net-mail. Repeated violations of the rules may be considered grounds for the offending node to have its link to this conference cut. Rule #1: Please try to keep your language suitable to all ages. Remember this message base is open to all age groups, and some may take offense to foul language. Rule #2: The topic here is OLD CARS. What makes a car an old car? For the purpose of this echo, a pre 1975 car in general is qualifed to be considered an OLD CAR. But this is a very flexible rule as limited production cars of newer vintage may be considered on topic. If in doubt, ask the Moderator. Rule #3: No unsolicited commerical sales announcements please. This echo is carried by sysops who foot the bills out of their own pockets for the most part. If sommebody asks for a source of a CAR-RELATED item, feel free to offer advice on where to look for something, or to mention that you have what they are looking for. If you have something which you feel may be of interest to somebody here and are NOT in the business of selling that item and it is OLD CAR-related, you may post about it here. Rule #4: No unsolicited BBS ads here. If you know of a system which has a program or file that somebody has asked about, feel free to post the name, phone number and location of the system, but no messages saying "Call this system now" type of thing. Rule #5: Keep the message-quoting to a minimum, please. Most BBS's are run out of the pockets of private sysops, and nobody wants to pay for (or see) a 20-line message quoted in full to have somebody else say "I Agree". Rule #6: Keep the personal attacks to a minimum, please. Everybody has seen messages posted by people who strike you as complete fools, but you do not have to call a person names in order to give an answer or correct him/her on a point. Hold the flames to a mimimum and try to keep this a fun place. These are all the rules for now. If any other points come up in the future, they will be addressed and added to this list if necessary. If there are any questions or comments about these rules, address them to me, Gerry Calhoun, via net-mail ONLY at 1:2004/200. --- * Origin: PETS R US! 805-946-8345 - Lancaster, CA (1:2004/0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E3I00006 Date: 03/14/97 From: DON DELLMANN Time: 01:03am \/To: GERRY CALHOUN (Read 0 times) Subj: engine prob. While tripping merrily through the mail, Gerry Calhoun was overheard GC> I figured to build an enclosure beside the garage (on the far of GC> everything). EH> We DO want to err on the side of safety but if you pump a tank to EH> 400 PSI it's pretty dang safe for 125! One of the best sources for compressed air tanks I've found, is go to a junkyard that deals in HEAVY trucks and get an old air brake tank. You've got something that was designed for the job, and all the necessary connections will be there, requiring no modifications. Don ... He then left in a Huff (A small German sportscar). --- * Origin: *YOPS ]I[* 3.1 GIG * RA/FD/FE RADist * Milwaukee, WI (1:154/750) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E3J00000 Date: 03/14/97 From: ELVIS HARGROVE Time: 04:05pm \/To: GERALD CHRISTOFFEL (Read 0 times) Subj: engine prob. -> Who's arguing and to whom might you be refering? Is that a reference -> to my hesitation to use freon bottles? Nope! You were not involved in the matter to which I referred. Don't be concerened about it. There's SELDOM any doubt about who I take issue with. -> don't think freon bottles are a high risk if that's the way someone wants -> to go. I just don't want one. :-) Not as my only reservoir either. But I use what works BEST for the application at hand. ^..^ --- FidoPCB v1.5 beta-'j' * Origin: BOO! Board Of Occult, Rio Grande Valley Texas (1:397/6) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E3J00001 Date: 03/14/97 From: ELVIS HARGROVE Time: 04:28pm \/To: GERALD CHRISTOFFEL (Read 0 times) Subj: engine prob. -> It is but you've got the wrong guy! Done a lot of foolish things and -> had a few close calls, but nothing related to vapors. Ooops! Sorry 'bout that. Didn't notice that you were "jerry" too! Our guy really was named Jerry, and the similarity to "Cherry" is what staarted the "Jerry Bomb" tale. It's practically an urban legend around here and every shade tree mechanic for miles around knows the Jerry Bomb story. -> Ain't no fun in being/getting old, that is but unless you've got a -> good reason to shorten the process? Well, I don't want to be blown up by a water heater tank but I don't worry about LONG TERM solutions as much as I used to. For most of my life I've belonged to that weird group who feel compelled to build everything ten times stronger than it needs to be. Since I've smoked myself half to death I've decided that just FOUR times as strong as reasonable is damngood enough! Really din't intend to be poking fun at ya Gerald. Gerry, MAYBE? ^..^ --- FidoPCB v1.5 beta-'j' * Origin: BOO! Board Of Occult, Rio Grande Valley Texas (1:397/6) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E3J00002 Date: 03/14/97 From: ELVIS HARGROVE Time: 04:31pm \/To: DON DELLMANN (Read 0 times) Subj: engine prob. -> One of the best sources for compressed air tanks I've found, is go to -> a junkyard that deals in HEAVY trucks and get an old air brake tank. TOO RIGHT! Great suggestion! Not too heavy to haul either! ^..^ --- FidoPCB v1.5 beta-'j' * Origin: BOO! Board Of Occult, Rio Grande Valley Texas (1:397/6) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E3J00003 Date: 03/12/97 From: WILLIAM BURLEIGH Time: 04:02pm \/To: BILL NICHOLS (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: junque -=> Quoting Bill Nichols to William Burleigh <=- WB>-> WB>there is anyone in here? I have been receiving this echo for a tim WB>-> WB>and WB>-> WB>there is never anything new in here. Please don't make me talk to WB>-> WB>-> DS9, & GOK how many other echoes. Nothing new, eh? Nope, sure WB>-> ain't. };) WB>Nice to hear from you too Mac. I explained what I posted and why. If I WB>have offended you sir I am sorry other wise have a nice day.. Be Well & BN> No real sweat, not to worry. :) It *is* one way of making sure BN> there's actually somebody out there in several echoes & making it BN> easy for the sender at least. And at least you weren't trying to BN> sell something like a lot of folks do. BN> Spiraling off-topic, so EOT time on this one, I guess. :) BN> -!- Well now that you mention it I do have this really nice Beach Front Condo in Arizona that I may want to see cheap... ???? I am kidding for the record.. :-> William ... My hard disk is full! Maybe I'll try this message section thing. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- ViaMAIL!/WC4 v1.30 * Origin: DataCat Systems London ON (519)451-8196 (1:2401/413) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E3J00004 Date: 03/13/97 From: RYAN GUGLICH Time: 11:36am \/To: LORI HARVEY (Read 0 times) Subj: 2.2l At 07:02 PM on Monday March 03, 1997, agents observed Lori Harvey saying to Mike Eyre: > Yes, I swear by the Mopars, but there is one thing you need to > understand.....My little 2.2l has 247k on it, and we plan on driving it a > long time. We've had that car longer than any other car we've had. How > many cars do you know that have that many miles on it, with approx. 73k on > an overhaul done 3 yrs. ago. The k-car was suppose to be a throw-away > car.....You put 100k on it, then you junk it. There is very little rust on > it also. It's also the most dependable car we have. There has been very > few times over the past 5 yrs. that it has let me down. > > > > --- Maximus 3.01 > * Origin: Iowa Midi BBS-Des Moines Ia(515)262-1370*28.8kUSR-DS (1:290/8) My father has a K-car and it's got almost 800,000 K on it.. those things live forever.. --- * Origin: Xanadu: It's a jungle out there! (403-439-8364) (1:342/806) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E3J00005 Date: 03/13/97 From: ELVIS HARGROVE Time: 10:45pm \/To: ROY WITT (Read 0 times) Subj: engine prob. -> My old 57 Chevy (c1970) had two cylinders (8 & 7) that would foul a -> plug just about the same time that you torqued it down. I used -> AC45's in all but those two, they got AC48's and liked them. Yep! My 460 F)or O)iling R)oad D)irt was the same way. Don't remember the FOMOCO plug numbers but three cylinders needed a couple ranges hotter plugs if you were gonna idle it AT ALL! I'd forgotten that. ^..^ --- FidoPCB v1.5 beta-'j' * Origin: BOO! Board Of Occult, Rio Grande Valley Texas (1:397/6)