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    Weight reduction: Running out of ideas.

    The '79 seats are very light for a factory seat, I'm not sure that my fibreglass buckets are much lighter at all. I normally leave the bucket in the drivers side and the factory seat in the passenger side so that I can still access the rear, I only bolt both buckets in when running and event...
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    EXTERNAL AERODYNAMICS

    i'm running the mx5 (miata) electric motors on mine. Never have to worry about them popping up by themselves again, and gets rid of the vacuum hoses (only vac line left on my car is PCV). I did measure the weight at the time, from memory I think it was pretty much a wash between the...
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    1958 MGA Coupe

    Nice work Bob! Gave me pause to think about how mine is oriented in my Midget, but while the inlet is slightly higher than the outlet the flow is mostly horizontal. Mine is pretty noisy too, but I always just figured that's the way they are. I can't hear it over the exhaust once it's fired up...
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    Quieting the exhaust PIPES?

    I have an antigravity atx20 Restart battery that I bought for my rover v8 powered openwheeler nearly 6 years ago. It has since moved to my Harley, and then to my MG Midget. Love it, weighs nothing, heaps of grunt, and the restart function is worth the price of admission alone. Great batteries!
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    Quieting the exhaust PIPES?

    Definitely use some rubber mounts. I cut lengths of timing belt - very strong, and can make it whatever length suits the application.
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    Transverse rear spring rate adjustment ponderings.

    Sounds like a good outcome. Catching up on the thread here, and you've already got it in the car so probably not all that relevant - but I was just going to say to keep in mind that shortening the spring stiffens it.
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