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[jellison]

TVR_owner said:

jellison said:

Tight on legs!

Do you play rugby (huge legs) or have a big wheel

6 ft 2" not huge legs, small flat bottomed wheel. Not room under the wheel to move legs around quickly, and it's a lot of wasted movement with the original set-up.

Must have been a very tight Squeeze in you griff John (with 4.5" less wheelbase).

[TVR_owner]

I was 25 years younger...

[Slow M]

ivanhoew said:

nice pedal box ,seems to be atracting a zombie though ?

I fed the zombie a co-worker's brain, to keep him from nibbling the pedals. Good zombie. Talented writer, too.

Best,
B.

[Slow M]

TVR_owner said:

jellison said:

Very nicely done dash (Same tach as I have used).

Those pedal ar upside down (hopefully), not floor mounted ala Sag's / Bugs (never got on with those).

Less leg movement required to drive the car. If your legs are tight under the steering wheel, these will make all the difference.

Fitted similar in my M, biggest ergonomic improvemnt to the car.

Jon, thanks.

I do like the idea of the pedals hinging closer to my ankles. Should be less leg strain, especially over longer periods of time. Agree with John, that it's bettter ergonomics.

Best,
B.

[stainless_steve]

Slow M said:

TVR_owner said:

jellison said:

Very nicely done dash (Same tach as I have used).

Those pedal ar upside down (hopefully), not floor mounted ala Sag's / Bugs (never got on with those).

Less leg movement required to drive the car. If your legs are tight under the steering wheel, these will make all the difference.

Fitted similar in my M, biggest ergonomic improvemnt to the car.

Jon, thanks.

I do like the idea of the pedals hinging closer to my ankles. Should be less leg strain, especially over longer periods of time. Agree with John, that it's bettter ergonomics.

Best,
B.

I've sat in John's car pedals work well if your over 6ft,i think they are that good i'm going the same route

[jellison]

Short has it benfits.

[V8TVR1978]

Bernard: Know the Seattle/Renton areas well BUT from PRE Microsoft. Was trying to get a trip to Spokane for our Labor Day weekend (first of September) as I REALLY want to try my Taimar on the mountainous road running alongside the dam on the way to Spokane from Alberta but things just are not working out and will have to cancel for this season. That is one road that I enjoy driving in any vehicle with all the ups and downs and twisties that go with it. Met a State Trooper on one trip and when we passed one another at the corner of both our down hill runs (which I down to posted speed) he was shaking his finger at me as he KNEW that I had been over the posted limit coming down the hill. Expected him to turn around and give me a tongue waking atleast but there are very few SAFE spots to do a U turn. Maybe next year, we can drop down to Seattle on our Vancouver / Victoria trip.

Wayne.

Slow M said:

Yes, I'm in Seattle (Beacon Hill) and the car is in a storage facility in Kent (adjacent to Renton)

Best,
B.

[Slow M]

Wayne, it sounds like a great road. I'm glad you are able to enjoy it. I've always thought that Canadian cops were great. Their US counterparts have a much more difficult job. When its expected that they should ALWAYS behave like uptight asshats, it must be very stressful.

Best,
B.

[Slow M]

Started laying out the wiring. Not figuratively, conceptually, or on paper, no, literally. I pulled three wiring harnesses from a 1988 Mustang out of their respective boxes, and draped them onto the car, the floor, my feet . . . basically, everywhere.

All of the wiring, and there are still switchgear, vaccuum manifolding, coil, carbon canister, EGR valve, and sunry other doodads attached, must weigh more than my last girlfriend. Seriously.

Now comes the fun part of doing an "oprtion delete" checklist.

I hate wiring. If I go for more self abuse, tomorrow, I'll take a pocture, so you guys can have something to laugh/vomit over. It looks like a disemboweled whale.

Best,
B.

[V8TVR1978]

Bernard: I agree with you 100%. The only gun a Canadian cop has pulled on me, is a radar gun. That road along side of the dam is lots of fun. Two uphill or downhill sections meeting at a tight corner. Driven it so many times going to Spokane or Seattle from Calgary but for the live of me I can't remember the # BUT I sure can remember some of the corners. Even better than the Blue Rigde Mountain area in Ky. and N.C. when I was down visiting M. Mooney on my "Tour around North America supporting local mechanics" and they were fun.

Slow M said:

Wayne, it sounds like a great road. I'm glad you are able to enjoy it. I've always thought that Canadian cops were great. Their US counterparts have a much more difficult job. When its expected that they should ALWAYS behave like uptight asshats, it must be very stressful.

Best,
B.

[ivanhoew]

Slow M said:

Started laying out the wiring. Not figuratively, conceptually, or on paper, no, literally. I pulled three wiring harnesses from a 1988 Mustang out of their respective boxes, and draped them onto the car, the floor, my feet . . . basically, everywhere.

All of the wiring, and there are still switchgear, vaccuum manifolding, coil, carbon canister, EGR valve, and sunry other doodads attached, must weigh more than my last girlfriend. Seriously.

Now comes the fun part of doing an "oprtion delete" checklist.

I hate wiring. If I go for more self abuse, tomorrow, I'll take a pocture, so you guys can have something to laugh/vomit over. It looks like a disemboweled whale.

Best,
B.

i'm looking forward to my pocture !

[Slow M]

Robert,

How funny, I was just going to ask you if your interest was related to the humour aspect, or if you were planning to read the entrails, and tell me my future, when I picked up the May 2000 issue of Classic & Sports Car.

Is the Bentley in that issue the car you mentioned?

Best,
B.

[ivanhoew]

Slow M said:

Robert,

How funny, I was just going to ask you if your interest was related to the humour aspect, or if you were planning to read the entrails, and tell me my future, when I picked up the May 2000 issue of Classic & Sports Car.

Is the Bentley in that issue the car you mentioned?

Best,
B.

auguries !!! only on tuesday whaen there is a full moon B.

i don't know about the magazine ,if its a blue car ,and they go on about a cam being made for it ,by zephyr cams ,then yes that the one i designed the cam for ,and it got accredited to someone else ... as usual !!
should be around 511 bhp and 720 lbs ft i think it was .

[Slow M]

That's the car! Actually, I recognized it because you'd mentioned it laying rubber in the first three gears. My elder brother's 427 Camaro* was such a machine, also, so the info stuck. They do go on about that in the article. I should hold on to the mag for you, or send it to you.

Best,
B.

• 7000 plus redline, 13.5:1, race cam, 5mpg, Munzie rock crusher, 4.11 rear wheelstanding monster in primer black.

Edited by Slow M on Tuesday 28th August 17:00

[ivanhoew]

Slow M said:

That's the car! Actually, I recognized it because you'd mentioned it laying rubber in the first three gears. My elder brother's 427 Camaro* was such a machine, also, so the info stuck. They do go on about that in the article. I should hold on to the mag for you, or send it to you.

Best,
B.

• 700b plus redline, 13.5:1, race cam, 5mpg, Munzie rock crusher, 4.11 rear wheelstanding monster in primer black.

if you could hold on to it that would be another incentive to come down and see you,apart from the chance to go in your tvr of course !!!

[Slow M]

ivanhoew said:

if you could hold on to it that would be another incentive to come down and see you,apart from the chance to go in your tvr of course !!!

I'll have to work a lot harder, and make more rapid progress.

[Slow M]

Entrails 1



Entrails 2

[ivanhoew]

oh i say !!!hold on chap!!i was just having my breakfast !!!!

[GTRene]

oh my...that are a lot of cables.

[Slow M]

ivanhoew said:

oh i say !!!hold on chap!!i was just having my breakfast !!!!

GTRene said:

oh my...that are a lot of cables.

Sorry gents, didn't mean to post those without nausea disclaimers.

Best,
B.