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Charlie
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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