if i am from cali, can i be a ******* for this?

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bianchi2

Discussion Starter · Mar 13, 2011 (Edited by Moderator)

my last front springs where way to soft,,rate 750 inch/lbs

rated spring, so i bottomed out a few times.

. went to repair my header system today,need some of those wrap around exhaust clamps, sunday, so could not find any...so 4 german hose clamps, 2 soda cans.. and.....it works ok,, lot less noise from there.. going to muffler shop next month to fix better..

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bianchi2

Discussion Starter · #2 · Mar 13, 2011

oil spill??? just refilled the steering box , last night..

Tifosi

· #3 · Mar 13, 2011

well there goes them nickle deposits.

bianchi2

Discussion Starter · #4 · Mar 13, 2011

repair like this.....priceless..

DPeterson3

· #5 · Mar 13, 2011

It would insult a ******* to think a Californian aspired to their ranks. We generally believe a ******* moving from Mississippi to California improves the average IQ of both states.

Don P
Carson City, NV
Past Alfas...
59 102 Touring (first Alfa $500 running)
65 Sprint GT (2nd Alfa, $500 daily driver)
102 Sprint (never did anything with it, but wish I had)
74 Berlina (first new car - now certainly rusted into oblivion)
61 Giulietta Spider G-Prod Race Car (where is it now?)
84 Spider Veloce (rarely drove it, so sold it)
86 Quadrifoglio (Dull car - no more 115s for me)
1971 Montreal "The Full Monty". Fair winds and following seas
Current Alfas
59 102 Touring Roadster - restoration complete, enough Alfa for any rational man. Or irrational, for that matter
Oops. Add to the "present" list, 10204 01488, 2000 Touring Roadster project.
Update 11/2019 - Restoration complete. “Best of Marque” Italiano Concorso 2019.
And.... 1977 Spider Veloce arriving today, 10/26/2019. Sigh. Poor impulse control.

And past...
Two 1946 Stampe SV4C (c/n 294 "Rocinante" - wife's favorite airplane. RIP), and c/n 235 "La Bon Temps Femme" (gone to a new home, but never forgotten)
Zlin 50LA (+9 -6 gees, titanium spar, 1200 lbs, 260HP rumored to now be in Brazil)
1946 Luscombe 8A
Starduster Too (recently spotted at the Nevada City, CA airport - over 20 years and an entire continent separating it from our stewardship in Binghamton, NY)
1955 Cessna 170B (wife taught me to fly tailwheel in this)
And present...
64 Mooney M20E ("Rambo". My faithful steed for over 40 years) Over 55 years old, and just returned from a trip to Argentina in him
Newest in the fleet
1967 Piper Super Cub on Wipline amphibious floats (a true "all terrain vehicle")
2010 Triumph Thunderbird

You can snap roll an Alfa only one time...

Tifosi

· #6 · Mar 13, 2011

'sides, a ******* woulda used small tomato paste cans as they are heavier metal and almost perfect diameter

bianchi2

Discussion Starter · #7 · Mar 13, 2011

...hummm... perhapes 'Italian" tomato paste.. would work better?

AlfaVeloce

· #8 · Mar 13, 2011

Tifosi said:
'sides, a ******* woulda used small tomato paste cans as they are heavier metal and almost perfect diameter

Dude! I was just gonna say!
And they work to plug holes in a transaxle when used along with some liquid steel.

Cali67Duetto

· #9 · Mar 13, 2011

bianchi1 said:
my last front springs where way to soft,,rate 750 inch/lbs rated spring, so i bottomed out a few times.. went to repair my header system today,need some of those wrap around exhaust clamps, sunday, so could not find any...so 4 german hose clamps, 2 soda cans.. and.....it works ok,, lot less noise from there.. going to muffler shop next month to fix better..

And you were giving advice about springs a couple weeks ago

Nice!!!

bianchi2

Discussion Starter · #10 · Mar 13, 2011

i am running 1150 ich/lbx now.. i made the mistake of getting 'stated rate springs' the front springs are inboard about 40% from the outer lower ball joint. so a 750"/lns spring ,on the alfa would really be,300"/lbs.. with 1150"/lbs , they are on the car.460"/lbs. the spring are also 9.5" tall... i have been driving it this way now for about 7/8 months now.. no bottoming out.. for the spring rate settings go to qa1 shocks.. there is a page ther on how to find act. spring rate on the car.

radamm

· #11 · Mar 13, 2011

Early 70s Mountain Dew cans are the best for quality repairs.....

bianchi2

Discussion Starter · #12 · Mar 13, 2011 (Edited by Moderator)

cali67.. i made a mistake on my springs( 1st set) so i posted my mistake, so anyone else would not make the same mistake, after more reserch, i posted my new results.. i stand by my mistake, and fix..if you never fail, you never learn...if you saw/read the post i did on the spring, you will note the math done, per qa1, and othe suspension site.

86spider

· #13 · Mar 13, 2011

******* repair

You got to get rid of those fancy German clamps and get some good baling wire, a wire coat hanger, or even a boot lace or two.

This repair will last way to long if you use things like German clamps, what were you thinking?

darrelde

· #14 · Mar 13, 2011

looks like a candidate for There, I Fixed It - ******* Repairs

Superflow

· #15 · Mar 13, 2011

Ha! I remember back in the late Sixties seeing a Big Healey parked by the curb with about 4 beer cans where the stock mufflers went!

shadowburn

· #16 · Mar 13, 2011

I found the soda cans nowadays to be too thin, so I used a stainless steel coffee cup instead. When the muffler shop was rewelding my system, the shop owner asked if I wanted the clamps and cup back. He said you could probably reuse them for something. I said yup, have to put the clamps back on the water pipes I stole them from. I was already planning to use the stainless for part of a heat shield, after I get around to polishing it up a bit.

maxwedge

· #17 · Mar 13, 2011

That's nothing, back in 'Nam, I once custom fabricated an entire set of, equal length, long tube, headers, using nothing but an crusty old Hookah, three Jewish prostitutes and some badger scrotum...

Okay, so that's not even remotely true, but I just wanted to fit in the rest of you ********.

Cali67Duetto

· #18 · Mar 13, 2011

bianchi1 said:
i am running 1150 ich/lbx now.. i made the mistake of getting 'stated rate springs' the front springs are inboard about 40% from the outer lower ball joint. so a 750"/lns spring ,on the alfa would really be,300"/lbs.. with 1150"/lbs , they are on the car.460"/lbs. the spring are also 9.5" tall... i have been driving it this way now for about 7/8 months now.. no bottoming out.. for the spring rate settings go to qa1 shocks.. there is a page ther on how to find act. spring rate on the car.

Got it, it's all very clear to me now. I was wrong for questioning your advice

bianchi2

Discussion Starter · #19 · Mar 13, 2011

it's ok.. sometimes we mis-read stuff here..

Mikes4C1300

· #20 · Mar 13, 2011

Nope, definitely not *******. A true ******* would knock holes in his exhaust on purpose and certainly wouldn't repair them. Boy howdy, Cletus, I betchergot 'nother 50 horsepahr...

Mike Hollinger
Atlanta

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