Damn!

Why would a spark plug fail like that?

Sorry for your trouble.

The electrode tip of the spark plug dropped off. Loose in the cylinder, it destroyed a valve and valve seat. It also damaged the piston.

The end result is its getting a new short block and cylinder head. Not exactly what I needed to hear.

Fingers crossed you don’t have to drop a 302 in it.

Tow Car Update…

For those of you who are not aware, my Subaru that I was towing my MG to Carlisle with decided it didn’t want to continue about 25 miles from the hotel. I nursed it in but had to get my tow car towed back home.

This morning I went to the Subaru dealer to empty it out. They had looked at it and said the transmission was OK but the…[Read more]

I can see it 🤓

OK so Carlisle was an adventure. Thanks so much to Gregg and and Sharon, Al and Rose Ann, Bill (Crash) and Audrey, Dale Schumacher and Bill Ascheman for making this one of the stronger TD showings. Six TDs, outnumbered Speedsters, show’d ’em up. Bill’s car was extra special this year, sitting in the race paddock all weekend and then, when he got…[Read more]

Greg Strain I need your phone so we can connect this coming weekend at Carlisle. Please send me a direct message with it asap.

FYI the HQ hotel for the group is Courtyard by Marriott Mechanicsburg. in Camp Hill. I’ll be based there From Wednesday evening through Sunday AM.

Greg I need your phone so we can connect this coming weekend at Carlisle.

Thanks, Stephen!

OK so: I’m planning on handing out cruise directions via text or email so you can just hit the link on your phone and open the turn-by-turn navigation. This will require the (free) Google Maps app, which I suppose many of you already have and which I downloaded for the first time onto my iphone a couple weeks ago. Seems to work fine.

I just…[Read more]

Very close to perfect…and…Good enough for who it’s for…Words to live by.

Yep. They can be shortened, as you discovered. Couple years ago as I finalized my Spyder build I discovered the same issue—the shaft length that had looked perfect in mock-up was, in reality, not quite perfect,

That kit uses a stock Beetle assy. so it was down to cutting the slotted end and re-slotting it for the stock D clamp. Pushed it in a…[Read more]

Could happen! I plan to be there with Bridget.

Looks like we might have more TDr’s then speedsters this year