Re: Spider questions

[Alan Lambert <gerard@domain.elided>]

I don't know how the accelerator cable is with Webers, but if it were a 
Spica car, I would tell you that you have insufficient play in the cable, 
and the hard stop moves the engine away from the firewall, which tightens 
the cable and makes the engine go faster.

On Sun, 9 May 1999, Chip Schug wrote:

> It has been a long time since I have driven my '79 Spider, so naturally,
> I have some questions.
> 
> 1. What is the proper tire pressure for the front and rear tires on the
> car.  I think they are Eagle GT's.
> 
> 2.  I have intsalled Weber carbs on my Spider and almost everytime I
> have to "slam" on the brakes and the nose of the car dives down, the
> RPM's go up.  What would be causing this?  This just started about a
> month or two before I put my Spider in storage.
> 
> 3. I am thinking of installing a 410 differential on my '79 Spider to
> lower the high end rpm's when I am driving on the interstate.  I did
> some major modifications to the engine when I rebuilt it about two and a
> half years ago (11mm cams, 10.4 pistons, Webers carbs, oversized in and
> ex valves and all the normal rebuild stuff).  It definetly has a lot
> more power, but the gearing of the car seems to be wrong.  Will changing
> the diff. help in attaining more interstate speed?  How much will the
> low end suffer?  Are late model Spider gearboxes the same as my '79
> gearbox?
> 
> Chip Schug
> '91 164 L (in storage now)
> '85 GTV-6 
> '79 Spider
> 
> 

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Regards,
Alan G. Lambert___________________________________<gerard@domain.elided>
           *******Los Altos, California (office)*******

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