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RE: how fast will a tr6 go?

Subject: RE: how fast will a tr6 go?
From: Gernot Vonhoegen <gernot.vonhoegen@stir.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:44:51 +0100
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
I can confirm having done 110 mph and the car will go faster than that
but I don't trust neither the wire wheels nor the skinny 165's for such
issues unless I'm on a nice long straight stretch of motorway.
I suspect that proper pi's will be faster as they will be able to
overcome the drag/power border way up higher than the carb versions.
Gernot 

> ----------
> From:         Brian Kemp[SMTP:bk13@earthlink.net]
> Reply To:     Brian Kemp
> Sent:         Monday, August 17, 1998 5:46 PM
> To:   CCampb8169@aol.com
> Cc:   triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject:      Re: how fast will a tr6 go?
> 
> 
> My almost stock 72 TR6 will sit for an hour at 90+ mph (in the right
> lane, except
> for passing).  I've passed 95 for brief periods.  The car will go
> faster, but I
> haven't tried.  It accelerates comfortably from 80 mph in 4th o/d.
> 
> See the car's recent history at
> http://home.earthlink.net/~bk13/brian.htm (simple
> page - text only - pictures later this month)
> 
> Brian Kemp
> 72 TR6
> 
> CCampb8169@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > My sons are having a good laugh at the pile of rust that I claim
> will
> > eventually look like the car on the cover of the May97 Classic &
> Sports car
> > Mag. Naturally the conversation went to speed and I haven't the
> foggiest idea
> > how fast this car will go when I am done with it. Does anybody know
> what a 71
> > tr6 does the quarter mile in and what the top end is? Whatever you
> tell me, I
> > will undoubtedly enhance when I talk to my sons about it. Thanks,
> Cole
> 
> 
> 

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