johnston
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is it worth buying????
is the avon book worth buying for the ideas and to compare against ron c's book
bearing in mind i'm not going to build to the original book demisions any way
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Barker
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 posted on 2/9/02 at 08:11 AM |
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The book is a bit like new labour all style and no content.
Its very glossy and well presented but at the expense of on actual info to do the job.
There are many pointless pages -- big section on glass fibre work and moulds - which is useless as most buy these bits, Sec on Owning a Tiger!!!! [I
wanted a practical build book not a coffee table book.]
I bought the book for sierra based dims etc as Rons was escort / cortina based.
only to find the tiger still uses cortina uprights and other bits. The bike engine section relevant for me is also lacking - lots of nice pictures but
NO dimensions other than one for props. No discussion of engine types merits dry sumps etc rather poor.
There are good colour drawings of the chassis although slightly small and measured to a 10th of a mil !!!! CAD slip up I assume. There aren't any
full 3D drawings of the completed chasis although theres lots of good colour photos of it from various angles.
Also the book is SOFT back unlike Rons - I assumed for £20 it would be different!
Anyway its not all bad and does have all the dims for the IRS which is what I wanted including fabricated rear uprights. worth most of the money!!
There are also other useful stuff in there. Question and answer section is very good but should be twice as big.
The chasis has many small changes from ROns
Pete
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