Doug T.
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Post by Doug T. on Jun 2, 2012 8:34:40 GMT -5
Hi All! I'm still working on my Photobucket albums and thought I'd post this one. This was one of three Brits at the car show.The other two were Minis!   These were not a big seller when new, but it looks good to me! It also looks like the engine's been swapped out. Did these come with a V6? Doug |
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Post by olroy2044 on Jun 2, 2012 9:41:47 GMT -5
Now ya did it Doug! That's a research project I will find impossible to resist!   That looks like a GM V6, so I think you're correct in thinking it is a conversion. Very well done, however! Must find out-----must find out------find out--------out! ;D Roy |
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Post by daveh on Jun 2, 2012 10:13:25 GMT -5
I did a lengthy reply 3/4 hour ago - just as I posted the internet went down so it's somewhere in the ether.
Triumph used to make good sports cars till the 1970s, when the Stag and the TR7 (which this is). The Stag had a Rover V8, I think. Prone to head gasket failure, and what was worse was that no one could get the heads off. many were left suspended from the head for days in the garage waiting for the car to drop. I don't think the TR7s were produced for the British market with a V engine, though they might have been in the USA. Certainly some used for competition had V engines - were these the V8s? I don't know, but the answer will be out there somewhere.
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Post by daveh on Jun 2, 2012 10:18:26 GMT -5
Doug, by the way I think the British release of the TR7 was delayed because all that were being made early on were shipped to the US. I don't know if that made them a big seller - it might just be that not too many were being made.he Stag was outside the TR series and I think appeared alongside them.
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Post by Doug T. on Jun 2, 2012 11:21:27 GMT -5
It gets even better! I was just reading that Triumph introduced a TR8 in the US, which was a re-designed TR7 with a Rover V8. The Rover V8 was an aluminum block design bought from Buick in the early 60's. If I remember correctly, it had a 215 cu. inch displacement. Sorry, I don't do metrics very well anymore, so I don't know how many liters that is  Doug |
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Post by Randy on Jun 2, 2012 13:23:06 GMT -5
I had an Austin Healey with a Ford 289 adapter kit installed back in the 1970s. It would go like stink.
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Post by daveh on Jun 2, 2012 16:41:33 GMT -5
The Rover V8 was 3.5 L.
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Post by bobinleipsic on Jun 23, 2012 14:57:51 GMT -5
My second car was a TR-2. Later, like three years or so, I had a TR-3, with a bad engine. A friend swapped out the bad one & installed the engine & transmission from his wrecked TR-4 into it. That was a lot of fun!
bobinleipsic
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Jun 23, 2012 23:15:59 GMT -5
The early TR7 was interesting styling wise but a bit of a turn off performance wise. A friend had one and we couldn't even spin the tires. The TR8 came along later with the 215 aluminum Buick which was used in the early '62 Skylark, Jeep, Triumphs, and even Rover.
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Post by daveh on Jun 24, 2012 2:11:46 GMT -5
Perhaps ahead of its time - traction control - or more likely, underpowered.
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Post by col on Jun 24, 2012 4:07:50 GMT -5
I once owned a Triumph 2000 .. looked realy nice.. but the bank account didn't look a that flash
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Post by grenouille on Jun 24, 2012 5:25:53 GMT -5
Its a pity the bulk of the British car industry went out of business in the 70s and 80s, I remember just after the war back in my original country we see mainly British Cars and the odd European and American cars but no Japanese cars.
Good that Morgan is still very much alive and they are great cars, if ever I strike the Loto, I'll make a bee line to place an order at their Malvern works and it will be in BRG.
Hye
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Post by col on Jun 24, 2012 5:31:18 GMT -5
I always wanted a Morgan ..guess I had better get in that Lotto que
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Post by lloydy on Jun 26, 2012 16:48:25 GMT -5
The Triumph Stag V8 was a totally different V8 to the Rover, the Stag was a nice engine - but sadly it had weak head gaskets, and if one blew and the driver kept going the engine was wrecked, if they shut it down it was fixable. The Rover V8 was very good, they made a good job of the old Buick lump.
The engine in the TR7 looks like a European Ford V6, probably 2.8 or 3.0 litre, it's certainly non original, and very nice. The TR7 was made as a TR8 with the Rover engine, and that was a quick car.
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Post by daveh on Jun 26, 2012 17:14:01 GMT -5
Lloydy, welcome.
With your prompting I just looked up the Stag engine - a 3 Litre Triumph design. It goes on to say that it was sometimes replaced with: Rover V8, Ford Essex V6, Buick 231 V6, or Triumph 6-cylinder engine.
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