[Fot] Manifold needed

[Jeff Kelley]

Long door TR2's were produced through TS4001. TR2 production ended with 
TS8636. Few of the changes made by the factory during the long run of 
side screened cars had much an effect on performance. The high port head 
was stronger. Increasing engine displacement and replacing the SU H4 
carburetors with H6 gave no real improvement.

Lemans heads are very rare and not well documented. Most SU H6 setups on 
TR2's were made by owners when they went to the junk yard and found a 
later donor car. Many of the earliest TR2's, ones with engine numbers 
under 850 blew up. Often at the end of the assembly line.  The 
crankshaft had only one oil hole per rod. Somehow my car TS778L survived 
with it's original engine/crank until I rebuilt it during the 
restoration of the car.

Jeff Kelley


On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:47 PM, davehogye wrote:

> Hello Friends, This low port manifold inquiry has me thinking that I 
> need to take a good look at my TR stock pile. I joke about it by 
> saying that I'm going to build a retaining wall with the blocks I have 
> lying around, and to think it has only taken me 5 years to collect 
> this amount of Triumph poundage. I can't recall the engine number, but 
> I acquired a TR2 engine a while back and I think the engine # is 1400 
> something. With it I got a low port manifold with the H6 mounts and 
> hadn't thought about it much until this current FoT topic. I'll have 
> to go refresh my memory and log the numbers. My next Triumph 
> acquisition just might be TS2172L TR2 long door. I didn't think long 
> doors went much beyond 1500. 2172 needs a total redux, but everything 
> is there, numbers matching. I feel another race car build coming on.
>
> Dave H.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Randall" <tr3driver at ca.rr.com> Cc: fot at autox.team.net Sent: 
> Wednesday, July 10, 2013 5:00:45 PM Subject: Re: [Fot] Manifold needed
> ---- EDWARD BARNARD <edwardbarnard at prodigy.net> wrote:
>> There was suppose to be a low port model that used H6's, but it was 
>> only used from TS8997 to TS9349 and therefore is a much rarer model.
>
> The intake manifold listed for 9350E through 13051E also fits the low 
> port head and takes H6 carbs. The change at 9350E was to the "Le Mans" 
> head, but it shared port locations (and gasket) with the earlier 
> heads. The high port heads started at 13052E.
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