[TR] TR "Standard" motor rebuild.

[Jeff Scarbrough]

At 03:50 PM 11/17/2008, you wrote:

>  If anyone is building a TR series motor I ask... why leave it stock?

I'm told my TR6 had the head shaved for 9:1 compression and was bored 
0.030" over.  I don't know if it has a hotter cam or not, but it's 
got stock carburation.  I've not yet got all the kinks out (it sat 
for several years undriven) but it's nice and strong.

My Spitfire 1500 will get balanced, and dual SUs and the Euro cast 
exhaust manifold.  A bit of porting, a dab of polishing, maybe a 
little less rotating mass...  All I use it for is Stoplight Grand 
Prix, and here in Jawja I don't stand a chance against trucks that 
could run over me and not feel a thing, so there's not much point in 
sinking a lot of bux into a car to make it less driveable...but it 
won't be as it left the factory, if that's what you mean.


Jeff Scarbrough      75 TR6 x 1, 76 1500 x 2, 78 1500 x 1, 80 1500 x 0.5
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Corrosion Acres, Georgia         #354