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- Subject: Re: '57 TR3 no engine go jap?
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- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: 22 Aug 92 08:45:00 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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- -> The Triumph engine is perfectly OK. Even the dreaded Lucas Electrics
- -> aren't as bad as they're made out to be. Fix the Triumph
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- It doesn't *have* a Triumph engine. Just an empty hole.
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- -> Put a modern, powerful engine into that chassis, and you're going to
- -> get yourself killed. It isn't up to it.
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- Baloney. The original agricultural-spec engine would make the car go
- fast enough to kill you; that's as fast as you can go.
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- Would you like me to tell you about some of my engine swaps, which
- obviously didn't kill me? The 400 Chevy-into-Spitfire, the 455
- Olds-into-Capri? There's people running around here with 350 Chevys in
- Porsche 914s and 454s in VW Beetles, too. Or we could point the finger
- at some British factory swaps - Sunbeam Tiger, AC 289, TVR 289, TR8, MGB
- GT V8, Nash-Healey, Allard, and so forth?
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