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Author: erik doughty 
Journal Created: Monday December 21, 2009
Most Recent Post: Monday December 21, 2009
Total Posts: 1
I bought the car for 500.00 dollars about 2 years ago. It was redone and up and running until I wanted more. More power, reliability, and the ability to tune via laptop. It currently has a custom made intake and headers that are plumbed to a td04 13g turbo and intercooler. The fuel is controlled by megasquirtI v3.57 with fully adjustable tables. This is just a mild power upgrade with low boost for now with stock internals. Looking from the outside of the car and looking in the interior the car looks almost stock, besides lowered front, wider tires, and three guages in the glove box. I will add pictures soon.
Author: Rupert Wild
Journal Created: Friday November 27, 2009
Most Recent Post: Friday January 22, 2010
Total Posts: 5
Couldn't resist adding this one...
Author: g sprouls
Journal Created: Wednesday November 25, 2009
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Author: Chris Stiebel 
Journal Created: Friday November 13, 2009
Most Recent Post: Sunday November 15, 2009
Total Posts: 1
Have spent most of the weekend applying deoderized fish oil into every nook and cranny that I can find within the body, doors and hood. Still have to get the new bootlid back from the spray shop and then I'll give that the treatment as well. i see the bootlid as particularly vulnerable to rust around the lower seam areas as the metal is totally un protected there. We sepecially created some holes in the lower outer sills as well as some in the inner sills to make sure that we could get the fluid right in where it counts. The body is now standing dripping oil out through many crevices, and when that stops we will apply a body wax or maybe Tectyl into the same areas to try and seal them off. Being close to the sea as well as New Zealands massive annual rainfall means that these cars are very vulnerable to rust. The new floors, sills and rear wings will have left some exposed weld areas where there is no protection.
Author: Darien Watkins
Journal Created: Friday October 23, 2009
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Total Posts: 0
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Author: Ernie Connor
Journal Created: Thursday October 15, 2009
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Author: Brian Dougherty 
Journal Created: Friday October 9, 2009
Most Recent Post: Friday April 16, 2010
Total Posts: 1
OK, so this is my first journal entry. I bought my car about 8 months ago, but didn’t get to do much work on it before the cold weather hit. Since I don’t have a heated garage, I didn’t get into anything major until spring. However, I have driven the car a lot (Even when it was 7 degrees out!) so I have a pretty good idea about what all needs fixed. I had some clunking sounds in the rear end that turned out to be a worn trunnion bushing. However, since I had it all torn apart I decided I would replace all of the bearings, seals, bushings, and other wear parts in the rear suspension. I borrowed a hub puller which made quick work of getting the rear hubs off. Prior to getting the right tool, I tried a number of methods including a few tons of hydraulic pressure. Nothing even came close to the prescribed puller. If you find yourself in this situation, it is well worth the effort to track one down. Last weekend I tore down the passenger side, removing everything from the differential flange out. I have been cleaning the parts, and got them primed tonight. I am going a little off the deep end, and plan on painting most of the parts burgundy. I also pulled out the leaf spring, and disassembled it tonight. If you do this, you may get lucky and have the studs pull out with the nuts. If not, you have to use a pair of nuts to pull the studs out. With the vertical ling disconnected on the driver’s side, and the suspension missing on the other, the spring slid out very easy. I expected it to be heavier than it is, but it is not at all hard to pull it out by yourself. Disassembling the spring was also pretty easy. I used a C-clamp to hold the spring compressed as I unbolted each clip. Separating the last two was a bit scary. The Hayes manual tells you to bend the clips enough to get the main leaf out. It didn’t feel right, but I bent one of them a few degrees until I could separate the leaves. Hopefully it goes back together without cracking. The spring buttons were pretty much smashed out of existence. I plan to machine some new ones out of Teflon. Enough for now. Next time I get some pics...
Author: John Reed
Journal Created: Thursday August 13, 2009
Most Recent Post: Saturday August 15, 2009
Total Posts: 1
I recently purchased a 1974 Triumph Spitfire 1500. Good Price and great shape........Needs a few things done but over all great looking car.....Picture Soon!
Author: John Gallagher
Journal Created: Wednesday July 29, 2009
Most Recent Post: Wednesday August 19, 2009
Total Posts: 5
We've enjoyed some nice runs in the Spitfire, always being very cautious and listening for noises and such. Over the weekend we did a 30 mile run on Saturday morning and a 40 mile run on Sunday morning. No problems. While I got used to the difficult gear shifting, my wife didn't and it took away from the fun of driving the car for her. Therefore this is one of the jobs I tackled this week. Upon reading about a similar problem someone else had on the forum I decided to disassemble the gear shift assembly. It quickly became quite apparent that the bushing (2-2102) that is supposed to be at the bottom of the gear stick had disentegrated. In fact I found little smashed bits of it resting on the rear transmission mount. Other nylon washers and bushings were also heavily worn so I ordered a gear shift kit from VicBrit....should be here in a week or so, and should solve the shifting problem....3rd to 2nd was impossible. With the carpet/throw rug that the previous owner put in cut back to expose the screws to take off the transmission hood, I've decided to get a new carpet kit...which I need to order. The seats are also shot so I need to do something about them too. When driving the car I felt that it had some get up in the lower gears, but once in 4th there wasn't much power. After seeing a British TV show called "Wheeler Dealers" where they restored a 1500 spitfire and did a compression test to see if each of the valves were sound, I decided to do the same. I had 170, 145, 150, & 185. These are good numbers right? Shouldn't be effecting power, right? Last night my 11 year old daughter did a great job of cleaning the vinyl cover and door trim with 409, and I replaced all the plastic and broken snaps with new stainless steel ones. Beginning to look better....even though the interior is scattered in heaps around the garage.
Author: Matthew Jones
Journal Created: Saturday July 4, 2009
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