[Fot] TR6 port injection on Microsquirt

[Brian Dolan]

That’s awesome and terrific dedication.

We keep breaking stub axles.

On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 8:36 AM Bob Kramer <rkramer56 at gmail.com> wrote:

> We've done pretty well over the years, right up until we didn't. I'm
> pretty sure we finished more than we DNF'd, but I have selective memory
> issues and haven't been on every race team. We've had a few big failures
> overall, but mechanically the car is up to it.  We did have a ring and
> pinion fail at COTA. That could happen on the highway. That was years after
> we smoked a diff early on in the summer heat at TWS before we realized that
> GL4 is great for 20 minute vintage races but not for 8 hours straight. The
> heat melted the poly diff mounts!  Aggressive dives are to be avoided as
> more modern cars have us both on the acceleration and the braking. The
> front end of a fiberglassed fendered TR6 is no match for the right rear 1/4
> of a BMW M3. More recently a 50 year old rocker called it quits. I'm sure
> there are other fails I have blocked out.
>
> Most of our problems can be traced back to our Lemon's roots and our build
> it out of the scrap bin mentality. The wheels are hand me down American
> Racing slots and we have more than once forgotten the fact that we needed
> wheel spacers or the shouldered nuts would bottom out. We had to clean out
> the repurposed fuel cell to remove disintegrating foam at the first race.
> Street gas is different than race fuel. Over a decade later we have a
> decent engine (about to become more responsive to throttle input), a close
> ratio J-type, CV joint rear axles, fiberglass fenders and doors, and a very
> trick removable front 1/2 clip from the BMW wars. We also found a couple of
> TR6 manuals that list the TR6 as having a 13.5 gallon fuel tank.  I have
> never been able to put much more than 11 in a stock tank, but whatever, the
> rules allow us 2 gallon over stock specs and since we are counting the 71"
> TR6 inner fender expansion tank as another 1/2 gallon we are putting in a
> 16 gallon fuel cell.  We figure we are good for 2 hour stints. At least the
> car is.
>
> Bob Kramer
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 7:53 PM Brian Dolan via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
> wrote:
>
>> This is a fascinating concept. Triumph endurance! ;)
>>
>> Brian Dolan
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 7:42 PM James Palmer via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Greg, as someone who is also building a TR6 endurance race car, I’d love
>>> to follow along!
>>>
>>> Jamie Palmer
>>>
>>>
>>> > On Jul 25, 2021, at 7:06 PM, Greg Blake via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Guys,
>>> >
>>> > Bob Kramer and I are converting the Texas endurance race car over to
>>> port fuel injection. Was wondering if anyone in this group might have a
>>> base fuel and an ignition map they can share as a starting point.
>>> >
>>> > The car has 10:1 compression and a Good Parts GP3 cam.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> >
>>> > Greg
>>> >
>>> > Sent from my iPhone
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