[Hacker / Hijacker]

What the heck happened here? Some ditzed brained pimple faced geek, who has

never had a girlfriend, rarely goes outside, hacked the site and stole the forum??

He probably recites lines from Harry Potter movies for fun, with his ONE friend

thats more of a geek then him. Glad to see its back up and running again!

Tom

Tom:

The forum is fixed and upgraded now, with more internal security in place. Some 14 year old in Israel hacked into the forum site.

Lew

[Is my Avanti now famous?]

Keep it up, Tom!! Pretty soon, you'll have to hire an agent to handle your Avanti and your fans!!

[A couple more Pictures - 63 Avanti]

Tom:

Great pictures!! And the Mustang disc brakes really look cool behind those wheels!!!

Good to see you out driving it to all the cruise-ins and shows.....

Lew

[Avanti in Indiana]

The Indiana chapter AOAI activity for August 19th is another return to Bendix Woods in New Carlisle Indiana. Former Studebaker president Sherwood Egbert's former home is now used as the Bendix Woods Nature Center. Sherwoods home is nestled near the Studebaker Tree sign (see photo below) and note the original STUDEBAKER tree sign at the upper left portion of the image, next to a portion of the huge proving ground track.

Years ago folks around northern Indiana called the area "Sherwood's Forest". Bendix Woods is located next to Bosch Automotive Proving Ground which everyone knows is the old Studebaker Proving Ground. Bosch has given us permission to take a few laps around the Proving Ground. We did "Return to Sherwood's Forest" two years ago and 23 Avanti's and their owners got to have the thrill of a lifetime. Pictures from it are on the webpage. http://www.geocities.com/mikesavanti2

The event is being sponsored by Indiana AOAI members Mike and Fran Lenyo.

This time we are calling our activity "Sherwoods Reunion". So, if you and your Avanti are in the area at that time we'd love to extend an invitation to join the fun.

[1982 Interior Work Progress]

TOM:

By the way, we featured Joe & Judy's Avanti with Tremec conversion in Avanti Magazine last year, during the summer, in issue number 130. All the details and more photos were included.

When I get around to doing this with my 63 R2 (currently an automatic), I plan to use a manual clutch linkage. I have the brake & clutch pedal assembly out of a 1972 Avanti, both a stock Studebaker flywheel, and one of Ted Harbit's aluminum flywheels (now sold by Fairborn), and a std. transmission Stude bellhousing. When I get around to figuring this out, I hope to be able to drill and tap whatever holes are necessary on the Stude bellhousing to mate the Tremec to it...... and then figure out the position for the throw-out bearing and the input shaft and pilot bushing.

I already know I'll need a custom length driveshaft...but that's the easy part

[1982 Interior Work Progress]

Tom:

Keep the Stude engine in your Avanti, and just put the Tremec behind it!! That's what I'm going to do with my R2 Avanti, but I'm still some bit away from doing the job. Anything is possible.

Maybe you can get the guy at work to do it for a couple orders of McDonalds Fries!!

Lew

Thats pretty nice, and its a 6 speed. SWEET! I am fighting the temptation to

pull the Stude engine from my 63 and put in an LT1. I am as familar now with

the LT1 as I was with the Stude ... but I want to keep the Stude engine. The

problem is getting the 97 T-56 mated to the Stude block. Fairborn is looking

into it .. hopefully they come through. Nice looking interior! Good work!

(bring over some others from the Yahoo site - this is the place to be! )

Tom

[hot tunnel while driving]

the newer Avantis are generally cooler running as to the amount of heat that comes into the interior and especially the shifter.

Just about all Studebaker Avantis, and Avatni II's through at least 1969 or the early 1970s, are like this.

Although your 1969 model should have cooling ducts that bring fresh air in from inside the fresh air vents in front of the windshield, and duct the cooler air over the bellhousing and through the transmission tunnel.

You might want to check and make sure these ducts are not missing or torn, or not aiming the cooler air properly into the transmission tunnel.

Lew

[Standard transmission.]

Studebaker used both the Powershift automatics and the four-speed Borg-Warner T-10 manual transmission in all 1963 and 64 Studebaker Avantis, and you could order a T-10 four-speed transmission in the Altman Avantis through the 1960s, and through, I believe 1972.

(I knew someone that last year removed the four-speed from his 1972 Avanti to replace it with an automatic).

After 1972, all came with automatics, until, I believe 2003 or 2004, when the folks in Villa Rica, Ga., could proved the new Avantis with a GM 5-speed manual -- maybe even a six-speed.

Lew

When did they stopping making the Avanti with a standard transmission?

[Horn fuse]

There probably is a fuse for the horn...... There is a horn fuse on the Studebaker Avantis, as well as the Altman models in the 1960s and early 1970s. I would think that there would still be one in '77 too, but I am not familiar for it.

Good luck!! And let us know what you find out.

Lew

Is there a fuse in the horn circuit on the Avanti II?  I had to pull the steering wheel on my '77 to repair the turn signals.  I think I may have shorted the horn wire in the process.  Now I have the turn signals repaired , but no horn.  No horn fuse on the fuse panel. I don't see any blown fuses either.  Is the horn fuse located somewhere else? 

Thanks

TJ

[87 Front brakes]

I'm getting ready to upgrade my front brakes. Parts are for a '87 Monte Carlo. I'm using Raybestos rebuilt calipers, new brake hoses, Raybestos drilled and slotted rotors and Performance Fiction pads. Will test before and after braking distances and will post.

Please keep us posted of the results... and send something to me for Avanti Magazine too!!

Thanks,

lew