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- Subject: '57 TR3 no engine go jap?
- Message-ID: <6828.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us>
- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: 21 Aug 92 16:38:00 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
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- Organization: The Courts of Chaos * Jacksonville AR USA * 501-985-0059
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- -> My advice is to evaluate the car and set some objectives for it. If
- -> it can readily be restored to fine, original condition, I would
- -> install an original engine. But if the body and interior are pretty
- -> well clapped out, I would install a Jap engine.
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- Maybe he just wants something more powerful, cheaper, and with parts
- obtainable at the corner parts place instead of FedEx from a Triumph
- specialist, and he doesn't care much for originality.
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- The engine in my Spitfire well and truly sucked. And then the
- crankshaft broke in half (two pieces, right in the middle). I bought a
- Cortina 1600 and four speed to replace it with, but got smart and sold
- the car before I went any further.
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