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Author: | new to this [ Sat Feb 15, 2020 9:08 pm ] |
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Looks a tight fit,whats the rest of the car like any pictures Dave |
Author: | Awaiting Repair [ Wed Mar 04, 2020 6:15 pm ] |
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Interesting stuff Vance! Enjoying your posts, please keep them up....... Cheers Keith |
Author: | Carledo [ Wed Mar 04, 2020 8:50 pm ] |
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There is a reason that the Sprint itself, as well as the TR7 Sprint was not marketed Stateside. The reason being that it turned out to be impractical to "federalize" the 16v motor to an acceptable level, because of that cam duration you mentioned and the fact that the single cam operates both inlet and exhaust valves in a fixed ratio. altering it for federal spec would have meant a complete head redesign and the factory, cash strapped as always, wouldn't or couldn't finance it! Later US spec TR7s had a Lucas fuel injection system to try and ameliorate the difficulties with emissions, but no such system exists for the Sprint motor, which had already been ruled out for US export. A few guys in the UK have imported federal spec TR7 injection manifolds with plans to adapt it to the Sprint motor, i've yet to see a running result so far.......... I was interested to learn of the 3rd carburettor, a new one on me! But could it not be replaced with a simple manual choke? Or do US legislators not trust drivers to push it home once warm? To be honest, nothing would surprise me! I heard a story (which may be apochryphal) about the Spitfire filler cap being moved from the rear deck to the rear wing (fender) on US spec cars (GT6 have it on the wing already) because an American lady used it (top down) as an ashtray with somewhat disastrous results! However, I don't want to be a prophet of doom and I hope that you can get your project past the testers! It'd be one up on the factory if you do! I think I'd be looking at EFi myself! Steve |
Author: | matt of the vivas [ Thu Mar 05, 2020 7:45 am ] |
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Ive come across those FASDs before... they used to fit them on XJ6s. They are a pain but they can be made to work well, Burlens have all the parts. Not easy to do away with and convert to manual sadly. |
Author: | tinweevil [ Wed Mar 18, 2020 1:58 pm ] |
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Hi Vance, enjoying reading your thread. I'm glad the oil problem turned out to be a false reading and an easy fix. |
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