The Triumph Dolomite Sprint was a very successful rally car, the sprint
is the engine used, a 2 litre lump. Apparently Triumph were going to use
it in TR7s, but never got round to it. The TR7 Sprint is quite a popular
conversion apparently.
John
--- "Michael D. Nugent, Ph.D." <nugentmd@gte.net> wrote: > For those of
us who can only relate a Sprint to a 1960s Ford Falcon,
> what is
> a Sprint engine (cylinders, displacement, hp, decade, etc.)?
>
> Mike
> Renton, WA
>
> John Hobson wrote:
>
> > I bought a spitfire restoration manual the other day and it said that
> you
> > could put a dolomite sprint engine into a Spitfire. Has anyone done
> > this? Is it easy to do? I'm not planning on doing anything like
> this,
> > just intrigued about it. You can pick Dolomite Sprints up quite
> cheaply
> > too.
> >
> > John
> >
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> --
> Mike
> Renton, WA
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