The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

sprint95m wrote:That is looking awesome,
respect to Alan !







Ian.

Congrats on choosing a Redtop but why on earth use a Ford gearbox? The Manta/Carlton/ Omega 5 speed is much shorter and lighter and has an easily shortenable gearshift extension. Needless to say, it also bolts to the redtop without an adaptor plate and, in Omega guise, has a concentric hydraulic slave cylinder which matches to a standard Triumph master (though to use this I needed a thicker Carlton flywheel on my car)
The gearbox is plenty strong enough being the same as is used on the V6 and diesel cars.
Since this car is fairly obviously going to be a racer I will not at this point question your use of near solid engine mounts but I hope you have a good dentist to replace all those fillings!
Checkout Ians similar Redtop Sprint in the resto section and my Carledo's Way thread for helpful hints!

Steve

Yes the vauxhall gearbox does have it's pluses.

But so does the ford unit. Easily obtainable rebuild parts and ratios from places like Burton power and Quaife for instance.

Everyone has their own way of doing things .

Engine mounts. Yes I realise that they're almost solid but the bushes aren't that hard. I would guess at somewhere between rubber and hardish poly bushes.

Oh and by the way this is going to be a race legal track day car. Which in the end is what I find myself wanting.


Any more questions?

As it happens, whilst I write this post I am sat in the infield at Silverstone watching a rather good pink floyd tribute band, with a pint! Cheers!

Hi
I don't think the engine mounts are going to be an issue re vibration. As I can see in your photos you have mounted to the subframe, not directly to the body so you should get good isolation of the engine from the body from the subframe bushes as designed.

When I changed from my chassis (body) mounts to subframe mounts i didn't actually see much change in vibration levels!, perhaps just lost a bit of harshness that I had previously. Mine now has well over a thousand miles on it and it flys! Yours should make a very usable track day car. I find mine is actually more fun to drive than my track ready BMW M635csi.

Check you PM's re availability of my old sump should you need it.

Ian

As a weird coincidence I went to have my MX5 roof fixed today. I arrived at a farm unit near Knutsford and spotted a Dolomite shaped car undergoing work. On closer inspecition it was Pete's car complete with Alan working on the gearbox!

We had a good chat about the project and it was nice to see the car for real, work certainly looks good and it'll be a great car when it is finished.

SprintMWU773V wrote:As a weird coincidence I went to have my MX5 roof fixed today. I arrived at a farm unit near Knutsford and spotted a Dolomite shaped car undergoing work. On closer inspecition it was Pete's car complete with Alan working on the gearbox!

We had a good chat about the project and it was nice to see the car for real, work certainly looks good and it'll be a great car when it is finished.

Wow!


What a small world it is

Here are some pictures of the latest progress

The gearbox


Fully welded o / s engine mount



Here is the gearbox, with the gear selector tunnel shortened to ensure that the gear lever is in the correct place



Exciting stuff!

a small amount of progress

here is the ford gearbox mounted with the sprint gearbox mount! it was actually very close but we drilled 4 more holes (slightly forward of the original holes) and it fits perfectly now!

i may have found the colour.....!

lazeruspete wrote:i may have found the colour.....!

Triumph Java Green then

Regards
Paul

Flyfisherman wrote:

lazeruspete wrote:i may have found the colour.....!

Triumph Java Green then

Regards
Paul

I think java is quite alot darker than the porsche colour. As can be seen in this photo of a tr7 taken at cholmondeley last weekend

Pete

Slight change in the subject - applogies for that.

I saw the TR7 two rows up from our club stand. Did you see the TR7 rally car and the blue Renault R8 Gordini.

Regards
Paul.

Flyfisherman wrote:Pete

Slight change in the subject - applogies for that.

I saw the TR7 two rows up from our club stand. Did you see the TR7 rally car and the blue Renault R8 Gordini.

Regards
Paul.

I didn't see them!

I bet you missed my dolly sprint as well, what about the blue and white Lotus Europa and the black pug 205 gti.

Regards
paul

I saw your sprint!