> >Trmgafun@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > I am interested in finding someone who has knowledge of the PI (petrol
> > injection) system on the TR5.
> >
> > Reliability?
> > Parts availability?
> > Compare to Webers or Zenith Stombergs?
> > Any workshop manuals available on this system?
>
> You might go to the page on SOL for the Triumph 2000/2500 group. I
> wrote one of them a while back, and asked about the same things. He was
> in the UK, and said the Lucas parts were still generally available
> there, but that I would have absolutely no luck finding a new manifold
> in the UK, and would probably have to patiently search for a good long
> while to find a used one. Said the British now get most of their light
> castings from us, and since the TR5 was never imported to this country,
> it's unlikely there's any domestic demand to reproduce the manifolding
> and associated castings.
>
> That information pretty much convinced me that it would be, in the long
> run, cheaper and easier to convert the car to programmable digital fuel
> injection, rather than chase odd bits and parts to reproduce the Lucas
> mechanical system.
>
> As for how the system worked, he said he and people he knew generally
> had little serious trouble with them. I've heard that the early systems
> leaked fuel from the injectors, so a few of them caught fire when they
> were started with a hot engine after they'd been sitting for a few
> minutes, but presumably that has been corrected. I don't think the
> earliest versions had any barometric compensation, but think that was
> added later, too.
> Cheers.
>
> --
> My other Triumph doesn't run, either....
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