[Fot] Any TR7 or TR8 racers in the group?

[Gary Schneider]

Greg,
I believe Yves Boode at Historic Racecar in Woodstock IL is knowledgeable on TR7 
running gear and could give you some insights. He builds engines and preps the 
car for an endurance team that runs a TR7, but I think they recently converted 
to a Ford engine for reliability. He's built Mini and TR4 engines for me and is 
a good honest guy.
http://www.historicracecar.com/contact.html or (815) 337-4001.

The TR8 I had was great but I also had a TR7 which was a disappointment. I'm not 
familiar with the Dolomites but if I had a V8 in the garage it would be an easy 
decision in my mind :-)
Regards,
Gary Schneider




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From: GregKerr <gregsk at bell.net>
To: michael cook <mlcooknj at msn.com>; Joe Alexander <n197tr4 at cs.com>; 
fot at autox.team.net
Sent: Sun, July 1, 2012 11:10:55 AM
Subject: [Fot] Any TR7 or TR8 racers in the group?

This is my first post so I hope I'm doing this correctly.

My name is Greg Kerr. I own a Triumph TR8 on the street. My friend Bruce Luke 
(TR3 owner) and I have just purchased an immaculate period correct racing TR7 
from member Paul McDonald. Bruce and I raced
Spitfires together as young bucks in the 1970's and now that we've both just 
turned 60, we've decided to relive the foolishness of our youth and get back 
into racing. :-)

The car is very tricked out but currently has only a mildly modified TR7 engine 
in it. This setup will be fine for our first season in 2013. We haven't raced 
for a long time so this engine will get us through driver's school and
our novice races in the first season.

For 2014 we're not quite sure what we want to with the engine but are 
considering a either a dolomite sprint engine or converting to the Rover 3.5 V8. 
We already have a sprint head and also have two V8 engines.  I'm tending to lean 
towards
the V8 as I'm familiar with that engine but Bruce is keen on the sprint engine. 
Its really an either or, since we could go either way.

There is lots of tuning info and resources for the V8 in North America but we 
can't find any resources on the sprint engine on our side of the pond. Just 
wondering if anybody in the group has any experience or thoughts about
racing a standard TR7 8 valve vs dolomite sprint engine vs the V8.

Greg
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