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RE: TR6 high rpm performance

To: <Triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: TR6 high rpm performance
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:30:18 -0800
> I converted my 1971 TR6 to SU carbs. The car ran wonderfully for six
> months and then began to falter. It finally got to the point that
> instead of a high speed miss, it would buck and jump and was
> undriveable over 40 mph. After working on it for a whole week doing
> everything that has ever been mentioned on the list plus a few more,
> a friend in the Brit car repair business said "Replace the
> carburetors! They wear out! I have to do it all the time."

What I would like to know is what wore out !  My SUs have over 300,000 miles on
them, and the car is by no means undividable at 100 mph.  And I fully expect
them to go another 300,000 (if I happen to put them on another TR, the old one
is wrecked).

BTW, are these H6 or HS6 carbs ?

Randall


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