[Fot] GT6 vs TR6 blocks - interchangeability?

[Allen Washatko]

Paeco Racing is closing and selling their inventory at 50%. They have blocks and heads for Triumph’s.

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> On Jan 29, 2021, at 1:34 PM, Scott Janzen via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> I am rebuilding my street TR6.  I need to replace the block - it’s sleeved, bored 30 over, and needs another bore, and I would rather just start over as it’s not original to the car anyway.  It’s a later block with the horizontal reinforcement cast into the manifold side, and the car is a 1970.
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> I have another block, allegedly from a GT6, has a KD number indicating GT6, but it has the concave/convex “blowouts” on the manifold side to clear a TR6 crank, which none of my other GT6 blocks have.  It’s also 25 lb heavier than a GT6 block, and has notches at the bottom of the piston bores to clear the con rods, which I’m pretty sure the GT6 blocks don’t have (though I don’t have a GT6 engine apart and apparently my memory is not that good).
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> So, here’s the question - can I use this for the TR6 - is it the same block where at some point the factory used them interchangeably?
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> Or, do I need to find another block?
> 
> Scott Janzen
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