--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E5P00015 Date: 05/17/97 From: BILL CLARK Time: 11:34am \/To: ROY WITT (Read 0 times) Subj: engine On (15 May 97) Roy Witt wrote to sean dunbar... RW> I've still got my 10 grand, one piece Sun tach. c1964 WOW... Now thats an expensive tach... -bc- wclark@worldnet.att.net --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Wow... I just had a V8 (1:132/180.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E5P00016 Date: 05/18/97 From: JOHN PUMMILL Time: 07:58pm \/To: LANDON ROBINSON (Read 0 times) Subj: radiator LR> I did some pricing around here, it will cost around $80 to LR> get mine fixed Must be a recore. LR> and around $25-$65 for a used one at a junk yard (if anyone LR> had one) LR> depending on where you go. A new one runs anywhere from LR> $193 to $264 LR> (once again depending on where you go). Yep. LR> This is the only working car on the property right now and LR> the only way LR> I have to get to work. If the radiator is sitting in a shop LR> getting fixed LR> then I have no transpo. So, I'm looking for a used one to LR> swap in so that LR> I can't still get to work while the other one is being LR> fixed. Kewl. Sometimes aftermarket radiators are plentiful and cheaper than new. We use a company called Gold's for new, cost efficient units. --- FMail 0.94 * Origin: Used ?? I Prefer Well Broken In (1:123/30) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E5P00017 Date: 05/18/97 From: LOUIE GONSALVES Time: 12:24pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: New echo being created! * Crossposted from: Automotive -- Cars! Howdy all! A new echo has been created. It's about cars, but about a special kind of cars. It's about sports cars. SPORTS_CARS is about sports cars, those wonderful playthings of the past and present... the Alfas, MGs, Healeys, Miatas, Porsches, Jags and more. Rx7, Z-cars, all rice burners (hey, I drive a Miata =-) are welcome. No 'Stangs or Camaros or 1/4 mile terrors. No big-blocks. No Mickey Thompson slicks. Been reading some of the Fido automotive echoes for years, and conversations mostly trend towards muscle cars... not quite my cuppa tea, although I'd love to have a 454 Chevelle SS... so I decided to create a conf. specifically for sports cars, ie, light, nimble, 2 or 4 seaters that make as much use as they can out of whatever displacement they have... no earth-shaking torqers here, just that sweet sound of a true sports car threading its way through the twisties... not that I have twisties in North Dakota =-) Since this is a new echo that just started today, it's not available on the backbone yet. I urge all of you to contact your sysop, NEC, NC, REC, whatever, to get in touch with me VIA @NETMAIL or EMAIL to arrange for a feed. Tell them the following: Echotag: SPORTS_CARS Address: Louie Gonsalves 1:2808/100 sysop@phosphor.datasync.com gonzol@gfherald.infi.net Once they have that, they should know what to do. Once we got a good following going, I'll put it up for adoption to the Backbone... but it's gotta be active! So, if you have SPORTS_CARS in your blood, bug your sysops and/or NECs, NCs, etc to get it for you! Faboo! Lou Email to: sysop@phosphor.datasync.com or gonzol@gfherald.infi.net http://www.gfherald.infi.net/~gonzol/index.htm --- FMail/386 1.22 * Origin: --==[Phosphor Dots]==-- Grand Forks, ND 1-701-594-8096 1:2808/100) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E5P00018 Date: 05/18/97 From: TONY WYSS Time: 09:14pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Mustang Anybody in the midwest know where I can get a Mustang from the late '60s? Please reply. Tony --- T.A.G. 2.7c Standard * Origin: The Swiss Bull BBS 608-325-7994 (1:11/600) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E5P00019 Date: 05/18/97 From: SEAN DUNBAR Time: 02:02pm \/To: ROY WITT (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: engine RW> Later, they integrated them into the same unit. Mine has one RW> transister that gets turned on and off by the signal from the coil. RW> Meter works fine, light even lights up. Transistor has crapped out. RW> I've been in there snooping and even wrote down the transistor RW> number, looked it up and even planned on buying one, but never got RW> a-round-to-it... Ahhh, thanks for the explanation :) Good luck getting that transistor in there... need a soldering iron? ;) --- Telegard v3.02/mL * Origin: The Other Side (915) 590-3817 * El Paso TX USA (1:381/95) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E5P00020 Date: 05/19/97 From: SEAN DUNBAR Time: 12:53am \/To: JACK SCHWENDENER (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: engine JS> Well, I have a small one on the column of my Bronco, but it's not a JS> Sun. But yeah, I guess we do. (But I ran some mounted on top of the JS> dash for a while too ...) Mine's just the cheapest one Sunpro makes ("Sunpro Mini Tach".. it's somewhere between 2" and 2.5")... it works :) I wouldn't mind mounting it and all my other guages on top of the dash though, that way I wouldn't have to look down to check on everything (guages are on the bottom of the dash under the ashtray... if your bronco was 80-86, you'll know where I'm talking about)... --- Telegard v3.02/mL * Origin: The Other Side (915) 590-3817 * El Paso TX USA (1:381/95) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E5S00000 Date: 05/19/97 From: LORI HARVEY Time: 01:32am \/To: KURT EASTABROOKS (Read 0 times) Subj: Dodge Thank you Kurt!!!!! I knew I could count on you to back me up. The rule at our house is Mopar or no car. That even goes for our race cars. (plural) Yes, I'm racing also now. My husband's IMCA Hobby Stock in not quite done yet. I'm racing what they call the Cruiser class. The steering wheel and brake are on the left side, and the gas pedal is one the right out of reach of the driver, and a 2nd person operates that pedal. It takes a lot of communication (hand signals during racing, because you can't hear anything but engine noise), and patience. We placed 7th. in the feature (started in 16th.) last week, and this week we finished in 5th., starting in 9th. We had some acclerator cable problems otherwise we would have finished in the top 3. We have the passing gear working (auto-trany) and a nice Edelbrock intake with a Rochester quadrajet (don't say it!!) carb. The secondaries open just when they should on the straightaways, passing everbody!!!! Did I mention that it was a Mopar, a '80 or 81' Chrysler Fifth Avenue with a 318!! Later...... --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Iowa Midi BBS-Des Moines Ia(515)262-1370*28.8kUSR-DS (1:290/8) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E5S00001 Date: 05/16/97 From: GERRY CALHOUN Time: 01:45pm \/To: JACK SCHWENDENER (Read 0 times) Subj: engine Jack Schwendener wrote in a message to Don Dellmann: JS> I did run a dyno back in the '60s and I JS> don't think anybody ever got more than around 200 into a set of JS> Clayton 8" rollers (the only chassis dyno I remember .... ). Clayton was the "biggie" for chasis dynos but there were others. School I went to had a Maxwell (if I remember right). They also had another one from another company. The Maxwell was an odd system. Instead the usual mechanical or water brake, it used a large electric motoer through a ford three speed tansmission to the rollers. You selected the roller speed with the transmission (I think it had choices of 30, 50 and 70 MPH) and then ran the car to that speed. Then you applied power to the motor. It had a two way transducer for torque so you could see parasitic loss along with horsepower to the rollers. The other onet hey had used a large disk brake (said to be off a tank) and simply measured torque applied. Gerry --- timEd 1.10 * Origin: (1:2004/205) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E5S00002 Date: 05/20/97 From: JERRY ROBERTS Time: 11:44am \/To: TOM COLLINS (Read 0 times) Subj: 396 JS> @MSGID: 1:203/721.0 8AEFB2FC JS> @TID: WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 95-0177 TC>> DD> What did Chevy put on cars like the 65 1/2 SS 396 then? TC>> (I'm DD> reasonably sure they WEREN'T carbeurated). TC>>They used 4 bbl Rochester carbs (Quadrajets), some 4 bbl TC>>Holley's, and the 427 even had three 2 bbls (Hollies) as an TC>>option in some bodies. JS> You're right, they certainly were carbureted, not injected JS> ... JS> I only remember the tri-power coming in the 'vette .... JS> Jackson JS> --- JS> * SLMR 2.1 * Speed costs money - How fast can you afford to go? JS> --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 JS> * Origin: ELLIOTT'S BBS ORANGEVALE, CA 916-988-0954 (1:203/721.0) JS> @PATH: 203/721 996 3333 992 270/101 396/1 3651/9 3634/37 48 --- * Origin: Rob's Point Fayetteville (1:3634/48.9) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: E5S00003 Date: 05/20/97 From: JERRY ROBERTS Time: 11:44am \/To: JACK SCHWENDENER (Read 0 times) Subj: 396 Overheard to Tom Collins TC>>They used 4 bbl Rochester carbs (Quadrajets), some 4 bbl TC>>Holley's, and the 427 even had three 2 bbls (Hollies) as an TC>>option in some bodies. JS> You're right, they certainly were carbureted, not injected JS> ... JS> I only remember the tri-power coming in the 'vette .... Remarkable as it may seem, the good friends at Cadallic used a Tri-power configuration in a triangle in the same year. There must not have been much success or popularity either. --- --- * Origin: Rob's Point Fayetteville (1:3634/48.9)