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On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:07:57 -0400, the infamous Joseph Gwinn
scrawled the following:

I recall reading these explanations, but no longer recall the
details. I don't
recall that it was called "jacking", though. My friend didn't call
it that, if
I recall.

I dare you to find it when googling "car jacking".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_axle

http://www.corvaircorsa.com/wright.html

http://wapedia.mobi/en/Chevrolet_Corvair?t=4.

http://everything2.com/title/Chevrolet+Corvair

Anyone involved with sports car racing in the '60s knew it as
jacking. If you talk to someone who claims to have been there and
who doesn't know immediately what you mean by "jacking," in
reference to Corvairs, VW's, Porsches, Formula V's, Triumph
Spitfires, or even pre-'64 Pontiac Tempests g, then he wasn't
really there.

--
Ed Huntress


Might have been a regional term. I raced San Francisco Region SCCA
and do not recall any discussions of "jacking".

Well, you were racing Corvettes. We didn't talk much to the guys who
raced above DP. d8-)

Seriously, if you weren't racing against Spitfires, or if you weren't
involved with FV, it probably wouldn't have come up. There were few
John Fitch Corvairs (like mine) on race tracks. But those of us who
raced in the smaller classes were well aware of it.

Porsches didn't have much of an issue with it because their weight
biases and suspension wasn't prone to jacking. The forces
preferentially favored compression of the outside springs, so they
didn't build up much jacking force. You could jack a street-stock
Speedster, but by the time they got to a race track they had
negative-camber springs and they were strapped down with stabilizer
bars or a Z-bar on the rear, and Koni shocks, until they felt like
go-carts. The best way for a young tyro to keep from killing himself
with a Speedster was to tie the suspension down hard, until it would
hardly move.

--
Ed Huntress


I was also involved in D Prod. My best friend ran TR2's,3,4's. You
can bore out a TR4 and install a Rambler piston and get some serious go
power. ;)

And you could hotwire the Laycock de Normanville electric overdrive on
them (overdrive was an option) and get 8 speeds forward. Much joy. d8-)

Was never a real Porshe fan. The first sports car I ever worked on was
a Maserati. Went down hill from there.

I guess! A Birdcage, by any chance?

Aquaintance near where I lived had a Maserati, and I help him with some
brake problems during my teen years. I was always great mechanically.
Grew up in a large machine shop enviroment. Was going to be a
mechanical engineer or geologist. But due to lifes whims, I ended up
an electronic engineer.

A lot of twists and turns happen in life, eh? The jobs I've had are ones
I'd never heard of. g

--
Ed Huntress


I still want a Birdcage.

Jeez, I don't even think about things like that anymore. What's a Birdcage
worth today? Online auction descriptions say the asking prices run around
$4,000,000. There were only 17 of the Tipo 61's built. Good luck! g

Nope, was a street Maserati. Can not even remember the model anymore.
Was back in 1961.

Most likely a 3500 GT. My favorite was the Mistral coupe, but they were
first made a few years later.

--
Ed Huntress


Loved the Tipi 61 of Chuck Sargent. Could not believe how may birdcages
were at the Monterey Historics 2 years ago.