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Subject: Re: [OM] Saving the planet or just saving money?
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:46:26 -0500
Yes, I sometimes think I'd like another but probably couldn't afford it 
anymore.  That was about 1973 and a 64 E-type wasn't very expensive.

Chuck


On 11/19/2010 1:41 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
> But YOU HAD AN XKE! No sympathy here!
>
>
>
> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 10:53 AM
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] Saving the planet or just saving money?
>
>
>
> Ala Jag XKE.  I remember pulling the rear suspension cage on my '64 XKE
> to work on the brakes.  After fighting a couple of thoroughly rusted
> bolts that had to be drilled out I got the whole suspension cage down
> onto the garage floor.  While on my knees examining it I dropped a
> wrench on the floor.  In reaching for the wrench I banged my shoulder
> into one of the four rubber isolater brackets that held the suspension
> cage in and broke it off!  Didn't injure my shoulder either!  I then
> checked the other three and found that all of them were at least
> partially separated.  Not long before that I has been touring down a
> twisty mountain road.  Gulp!  Reminiscent of the time the splines on the
> the steering shaft on my '73 Mercury Capri failed going down the same
> road.  Or the time I broke half of the spokes out of the front wheels on
> my '57 Sunbeam Alpine while on a different twisty road.  Some things
> remind me I'm lucky to still be here.  :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 11/19/2010 10:33 AM, Bill Pearce wrote:
>> Yes, there were a few re-engined with a very small but potnet V8 of
> american
>> ancestry, but I forget whose. Like many other of these projects, few were
>> really thought out. His was probably a TR6, as they all had problems with
>> the differential mounting. As the 6 had IRS, the diff was mounted to the
>> frame on a bracket with rubber isolaters, which in the cases of either the
>> front or rears were quite strong, enough indeed that the bracket, make of
>> stamped metal, couldn't hold up. They all cracked, the question was when.
> I
>> remember having mine welded. Even the torque of the original motor could
>> break a diff loose when badly cracked. Oh, those english!
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Piers Hemy [mailto:piers@xxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 7:50 AM
>> To: 'Olympus Camera Discussion'
>> Subject: Re: [OM] Saving the planet or just saving money?
>>
>>
>>
>> Bill, your words remind me of an off-list exchange with Walt Wayman, who
>> discovered that his re-engined TR (I think it might have been a -5 rather
>> than a -6, but I can't remember the size of the new and bigger engine he
> had
>> put in it) had rather more torque than he had expected, and considerably
>> more than the back axle could handle.  As far as I recall, the back axle
> was
>> ripped off the bodyshell. Completely.
>>
>> Piers
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bill Pearce [mailto:bs.pearce@xxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 18 November 2010 23:29
>> To: 'Olympus Camera Discussion'
>> Subject: Re: [OM] Saving the planet or just saving money?
>>
>> When I had my TR6, I noted frequently that generally there was adequate
>> space in the engine compartment for a nice Buick/Rover V6 with
> supercharger
>> or a small V8, so the straight six was easy to work on, but rarely needed
>> it. The electricals were remarkably reliable, as long as you didn't want
>> lights, defroster, wipers and the radio all at once. Sure had a lot of
>> torque.
>>
>> --snip
>>
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