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Christmas bucket list
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Hawk 289, 66 Mustang Fastback with a 289 maximum smiles per mile..
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Re: Christmas bucket list
Yes, I saw that too.
Could be very useful, especially for those with cars very close to original.
Paul
Could be very useful, especially for those with cars very close to original.
Paul
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Re: Christmas bucket list
I wish it was going to be a REAL Haynes manual. This is part of a series that look like the real thing, but is just another book about Cobras. There will be none of the old 1. undo cylinder head studs. 2. remove cylinder heads. 3. Replacement is the reverse of removal. - more's the pity.
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That's a shame.
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Yep, that's the 'Chassis Handbook'. It's available from the ACOC, and is actually quite useful. Especially when you have a box full of suspension parts and no idea what goes where! It does point out the glaring issue for all originality freaks - the entire chassis uses BSF threads for everything. Even Kirkham have to use UNF. Keeping up with the Whitworths is not possible!
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It`s not like Haynes have an excuse either... JH had his Cobra since the year dot, must have had it to bits back in the day!Roger King wrote:I wish it was going to be a REAL Haynes manual. This is part of a series that look like the real thing, but is just another book about Cobras. There will be none of the old 1. undo cylinder head studs. 2. remove cylinder heads. 3. Replacement is the reverse of removal. - more's the pity.
The problem is it won`t be a REAL Haynes manual... where "pic 15.2(c)" doesn`t look anything like your gearbox layshaft, whichever way you look at it!!!
I remember as a kid taking the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray manual out of the library.... seriously weird find in this town!
Hawk 289 FiA...AT LAST!!!
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Oh yes it is...but it might add $100,000* to the cost of the build!!!!Roger King wrote:Even Kirkham have to use UNF. Keeping up with the Whitworths is not possible!
*source....David Kirkham!
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His 289 is wonderfully ratty. I crawled all over it for photos a while back, and it's actually quite glorious - no tarting up anywhere and about as original a car that's been used like that can be. No competition history or race bits added on, and RHD, so a very valuable resource!nikbj68 wrote:It`s not like Haynes have an excuse either... JH had his Cobra since the year dot, must have had it to bits back in the day!Roger King wrote:I wish it was going to be a REAL Haynes manual. This is part of a series that look like the real thing, but is just another book about Cobras. There will be none of the old 1. undo cylinder head studs. 2. remove cylinder heads. 3. Replacement is the reverse of removal. - more's the pity.
The problem is it won`t be a REAL Haynes manual... where "pic 15.2(c)" doesn`t look anything like your gearbox layshaft, whichever way you look at it!!!
I remember as a kid taking the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray manual out of the library.... seriously weird find in this town!
I can believe DK's figure for using Whitworth fine. The coarse Whitworth threads are still made, up to a point, but fine is disappearing fast. So it'd be hand cut threads everywhere.
What sad kids we were. Poring over grainy black and white photos of... oily bits of cars. Good job we've moved on. Oh, wait...
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I'm pretty sure you'll find that BSF and Whitworth are different Roger. The thread form is the same, but the pitch is different.Roger King wrote:Yep, that's the 'Chassis Handbook'. It's available from the ACOC, and is actually quite useful. Especially when you have a box full of suspension parts and no idea what goes where! It does point out the glaring issue for all originality freaks - the entire chassis uses BSF threads for everything. Even Kirkham have to use UNF. Keeping up with the Whitworths is not possible!
Kirkham use aircraft fixings throughout, which are ridiculously expensive. As an example, the 8 fixings required to bolt the half-shafts to the dif. came to over £100 when I needed to source some myself.
Paul