[Fot] TVR 2500M project car

[Greg Blake]

Bob is underselling it.  I’ve been involved with this car since the first build, participated in numerous race weekends as driver and as crew. The fuel injection swap was a game changer. 

We were at the same track with some of the same drivers back in March of this year prior to the swap. Same track/same driver times saw an average of 4 seconds/lap drop.  

This was an initial tune I put into the computer that was very conservative. We will do some more tuning in the coming months in preparation for next years schedule and will most certainly see better results. 

The other neat thing of having this setup is all the data we can analyze after a session. If interested, contact me and I can tell you all about that part and what you can do with tuner studio and mega log viewer. Really cool stuff. 

Thanks to Bob for providing the car to play with. 

Greg

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> On Sep 29, 2021, at 7:48 AM, Bob Kramer via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> Amici,
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> We took our endurance TR6 to Harris Hill raceway here in Central Texas for a ChampCar weekend event and while we were having a great time with the car we were offered a long block TR6 engine that came out of a TVR 2500M that was on the property.  We met with the owner of the TVR and found out he is trying to sell it off.  It is a roller, all glass but the TVR was torn down for a repaint and left in a state where it was sanded but not primed.  It has the TR6 rear diff with a Quaife, but the engine and trans are not included. He is asking $4500.00 for the TVR as it sit.
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> He was giving us the engine that came out of that car. He had an early intake manifold modified for a turbo on the engine but the turbo was long gone.  I will need to collect that engine from him but if it is needed to make his sale deal work for someone in our circle we can make it available. 
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> This is an interesting guy.  He is a former Chysler engineer who changed gears and went to Med school to become a doctor.  At 70 he is slowing down but he probably had a bit of fun with cars in his lifetime. He had a couple of Hayabusa engined sports racers, a Mustang and maybe it was a Celica racer cars mostly apart in his shop.
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> Let me know off the list if you have an interest and I will connect you to him.
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> BTW, the TR6 was terrific this past weekend. 8 hours Saturday and 7 on Sunday. We added the Ramin Mirshab throttle body fuel injection prior to this race and the car was transformed. We have run this car fitted with dual SU's in ChampCar (ChumpCar), Lemons, and the WRL and we always felt like we had a good handling car with decent brakes.  With the extra responsiveness and probably a little more HP, the car became a bit more to handle. We'll need to work on speeding up our pit stops to get more laps completed but we still managed 4th in class out of 9 cars, losing to a BMW 325E, a 280ZX and a Boxster both days. 
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> Bob Kramer
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