On Oct 18, 2012, at 10:15 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Larry Colen > > > Rubber bumper GTs are fairly rare in the U.S. I've only ever seen one up > close & personal.
I'm not sure I've ever seen one. I think a friend had a grey market one, which was more interesting because of the factory aluminum block motor. Said V-8 put out about the same power as I'm hoping to get out of my motor. > > Cracked cylinder heads are pretty common. I don't know if it was a flaw > in the design or just that no one knew the proper way to torque them. In > the early 90s a complete brand new replacement with valves, springs & > hardened valve seats installed was $199 from Victoria British. I ran into an unfortunate combination of failures when I first got the car running with the blower. There was a small water leak, and there was a crimp in the mechanical temperature gauge so that it would read "uncomfortably warm" but not "you're going to blow up your motor hot". That is what probably caused the cracked head, and the broken ring etc. > > The Miata doesn't have the leg room of an MGB. I test drove one, and > quickly got tired of my knees hitting the steering wheel whenever I > lifted my foot to apply the brake & clutch. The seat in the miata has too much padding in the cushion so that even a relatively short person like myself (5'8") sits way too high in the car. A quick and easy fix is to pull the set cover and using a serrated bread knife, take a bit of the padding out. They were very definitely designed for shorter people than most American men. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
