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Chevron B6 Ginetta G4 Emma Peel's Lotus Elan (complete with Emma Peel) 970cc Cooper S Bug Eye Sprite in yellow with Minilites my 1970 S2 Lotus Europa GT40 my late brother's 1929 Model A Ford Tudor sedan hot rod

Like the approach you've taken using both square/rectangular tubing combined with bonded inner and outer roof section surface skins. Think this will add some overall torsional rigidity to the chassis (compared to fiberglass-only spider) without introducing the protrusion of larger diameter roll...

Thanks for the link, Mike. A trip down memory lane. Visited Ray and Graham, several times at their Poole factory; initially to see what the GTD was all about and later to buy lots of bits and pieces during my long, 7-year build of my own version of the GT40. At that time, 1987- 97, my parents...

Seem to remember they used to run speed trials at Weston super Mare (near Bristol) on the sea-front in the 60's and 70's

I did not realize til after I bought my Volvo S40 T5 that the 5 cylinder engine design included a girdle as shown below. With the twin overhead cams and 4 valves per cylinder, they were pretty advanced for their time (mine is a 2005)

Seem to remember Janspeed in the late 70s doing something similar (girdle) to a Rover V8 motor for a TR7 they were developing for LeMans. Can't recall many details but think they eventually ran out of budget before they fully developed the car.

I was working in the US in 1985-87 when the Pound last reached near parity with the Greenback. As I was working for a UK firm at the time on a fixed UK Pound contract it was a painful experience. The exchange rate gyrations between the Pound and the USD at that time were really wild, along with...

Having reread Terry's post above, agree with his final conclusions, and would go for the larger piston bore option that Wilwood offered (hopefully still do) for the calipers. Your pedal ratio is not so different from mine (once I checked and corrected) and you will want the larger hydraulic...

oops just cheched my drawings; pedal ratio was 5.5:1

It sounds like you use the same front Wilwood calipers; 4pot Superlites but I have Wilwood Dynalites in the rear (also 4 x 1 3/8"). I use 0.625" Girling master cylinders front and rear with a pedal ratio of 4.5:1. The pedal is pretty heavy, but with your higher pedal ratio, you probably won't...

Yeah think it's a pitch you'd want to lay off :oops:

I think the short answer would be; you, the baseball and the baseball bat would be vapourized! My math is a bit rusty, but think the energy released would be in the order of 1000 times the Hiroshima bomb!

Ottawa gas prices this weekend are around $1.96 CDN/litre for 87. Converting to US equivalent - $5.79 USD for US gallon

Although I'm a strong believer in vaccinations, I would like to share my own recent experiences. I would preface this by saying that my observations are only based on circumstantial evidence, but by putting them on a forum, if others have experienced something similar then data points are...

Think it wasn't until mid 1944 that the first serious attempt to assassinate Hitler at the Wolf's Lair took place by an inner circle of officers. Hitler survived several earlier attempts but seemed to have the 9 lives of a cat. Putin, already paranoid, probably is taking every precaution to...