<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Chris,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The top hat linered blocks are the way to go, from what I hear. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are new (not remanufactured) engines available from RPI in the UK (I’ve had good results using them in the past when I was rebuilding my Morgan Plus 8’s engine) and their website has some useful information on it as well. You might check their ebay pages, although I don’t see any bare blocks for sale there at the moment.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 18, 2016, at 3:06 PM, MadMarx <<a href="mailto:tr4racing@googlemail.com" class="">tr4racing@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Thanks for the input John.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Getting it from USA is always connected with high shipping cost and taxes.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">This comes from England:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><a href="http://www.v8tuner.co.uk/product.php?id=675" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://www.v8tuner.co.uk/product.php?id=675</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Seems reasonable.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Cheers<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Chris</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">Von:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>John Styduhar [<a href="mailto:johnstydo@gmail.com" class="">mailto:johnstydo@gmail.com</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><b class="">Gesendet:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2016 21:45<br class=""><b class="">An:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>MadMarx<br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Triumph 'Friends of Triumph<br class=""><b class="">Betreff:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Fot] IMSA TR8 lost a conrod<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">British Parts International makes a beefed-up alloy 4.6L block.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 12:19 PM, MadMarx <<a href="mailto:tr4racing@googlemail.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">tr4racing@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Yep!<br class="">The engine is now toasted.<br class="">Everything except the heads is rubbish now, including the block.<br class="">Cause were a rod bolt.<br class="">I stupid man didn't change the bolt just to make sure.<br class="">As I never found any problem on my bolts, as I measure them every time I<br class="">service the TR4 engine, I thought that would be the same on the TR8.<br class="">Seems I was wrong. I gave 45 pounds on them as usual but maybe they were<br class="">already tired.<br class="">I had a full set of fitting ARP 2000 bolts on the shelf which I could have<br class="">used instead of the ARP8740.<br class=""><br class="">Need to start from new.<br class="">First a new 4.6L block is needed.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br class=""><br class="">Cheers<br class="">Chris<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class=""><a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">fot@autox.team.net</a><br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.fot-racing.com/" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://www.fot-racing.com</a><br class=""><br class="">Donate:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" target="_blank" style="color: purple; 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