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- From: bakc@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR KR COMAN)
- Subject: Re: '57 TR3 no engine go jap?
- Message-ID: <bakc.97.714037347@giraffe.ru.ac.za>
- Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za
- Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- References: <713948443.F00001@blkcat.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 07:42:27 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <713948443.F00001@blkcat.UUCP> Frank.Mallory@f417.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Frank Mallory) writes:
- >From: Frank.Mallory@f417.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Frank Mallory)
- >Subject: '57 TR3 no engine go jap?
- >Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 23:21:43 -0500
-
- > CA> Just what don't you guys like about Lucas kit ? Is there something
- > CA> in particular that has offended you, or is it just because they
- > CA> aren't made in the US of A ?
-
- >I think much of their bad reputation was earned from the early electric fuel
- >pumps, then reinforced by the XK-E starters.
-
-
- Add:
- 1.
- Switchgear -- indictors, fuel pump switches, headlamps, dipswitchs, reverse
- lights.
- 2.
- Fuel injection system: a la Triumph 2500 PI
- 3.
- Heater/ventilation fan motors
- 4.
- Ignition distributors: points, vacuum advance mech. -- don'tcha also just
- love the way these little items attract the least amount of damp/moisture
- and go on strike??
- 5.
- The DREADED SU FUEL PUMP!!!
- 6.
- The INFAMOUS LUCAS IGNITION COIL!!!!
- 7.
- The UNLAMENTED LUCAS BRAND CAR BATTERY -- made of "seconds" componets 'cos
- low cost is more NB than in-service quality.
-
- Signing off....I'm not feeling very well -- the above list's revived too
- many bad memories.
-
- Keith
-