Bill,
I appreciate your input here. And if it were a street car that will be going
on show, I would probably agree with all you say. But I have another
Spitfire that fills that part of the agenda. The goal here is to be
competitive in my class. THe class is generally inundated by hybrid cars with
as
much power as can be harnessed and stay within the limits of the class.
Going the S2000 route provide about 1.5 times as much power as I realistically
could achieve by doing the supercharger route and since it is naturally
aspirated, it should be much more reliable than the Triumph engine.
Please bear in mind that this is serious competition and for me to be a
"player", I am going to have to get really serious in what powers the car.
The Spitfire engine might be competitive with the blower installed but I am
afraid that I will be repeating the process every year. I doubt the
bottom end will stand up to all the additional torque the blower will provide.
See there, you caused me to talk myself into it! :) Well, maybe! That is
if I can come up with the $7500 + that it will take to complete the
process.
I think this will be more of a "Long term project" than something soon!
Cheers,
Joe (C)
William G Rosenbach wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
> Well, you would get some serious power, lots of technology, far greater
> reliability than a pumped up TR engine.
>
> But, you will piss off some, if not most of your peers. There are those
> who will appreciate what you have done, but probably very few with
> Triumphs.
>
> Some of the things that have passed through the Colorado English Motoring
> Conclave, a day in the park type of car show by English car clubs, but
> never seen again were:
>
> TR-4 fitted with a Toyota Twin Cam, 1.6 litre I think. Nice fit, well
> done, not at all well received by the British inclined public.
>
> Early Lotus Elite fitted with a Buick aluminum V-8. Beautiful car,
> Wedgwood Blue. The car was never meant to have that much engine in it and
> to get it in there was a real bastardization of a great car. It could not
> have handled well at all. It too was nit very well received when its
> bonnet was open, fine when the bonnet was closed.
> Engine probably weighed as much as the rest of the car.
>
> MGB, totally stock. How fickle are people? This MGB's only infraction was
> it was a Street Rod theme. It was the 'Pink Panther". Interior was done
> in pink and white but was still clearly an MGB. The spare tyre cover had
> a likeness of the Pink Panther on it, again, nicely done in a completely
> finished trunk. The "worst" of it was the paint. That is what made it
> stand out from the crowd if Bs They had added chrome strips modified from
> or inspired by the 1956 (I believe) Ford (probably irritated the Ford
> guys too). You know the one, sort of a check mark that divided the two
> tone paint. That is exactly what was done to the MGB. Painted in pink and
> white to keep with the theme. The car was stock, very nicely done, no
> Japanese engine or the like. The lady whose car it was got so much grief
> for her really exceptional car that we have never seen her or her car
> again. That's a real shame!
>
> Probably ought to rethink this one if you don't want to run afoul of your
> peers. If that is not a consideration, go for it!
> Imagine, an English car that you can drive without a tool kit and still
> feel secure. Oh yeah, its still in an English car.
>
> Bill
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