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Topic: bshorey, top notch guy!

I just wanted to post a public thank you to super-firendly-and-helpful-forum-member Bshorey.

A couple months back, after one of my worst decisions to date, he offered to not only retrieve, but store my latest Lemons project, a 1986 TVR Tasmin 280i.

I had put the car on uShip in order to get it out of his yard, and the (useless) shipper that "won" the job was a complete a$$clown, we set off on New Years eve to make the run from Victoria BC, to Gilroy Ca.

So after a great visit and a tour of the Alpha Romeo Race HQ, we loaded up our bad decision and headed north.

Again, HUGE thank you to a great guy!

Sean

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swindrum wrote:

I just wanted to post a public thank you to super-firendly-and-helpful-forum-member Bshorey.

A couple months back, after one of my worst decisions to date, he offered to not only retrieve, but store my latest Lemons project, a 1986 TVR Tasmin 280i.

I had put the car on uShip in order to get it out of his yard, and the (useless) shipper that "won" the job was a complete a$$clown, we set off on New Years eve to make the run from Victoria BC, to Gilroy Ca.

So after a great visit and a tour of the Alpha Romeo Race HQ, we loaded up our bad decision and headed north.

Again, HUGE thank you to a great guy!

Sean

I'm blushing.  Thanks for the kind words!  If you can find it in your heart to forgive me for my rude Barbie comments, I'll forgive you for misspelling Alfa...

I can't wait to see that thing on the track.  I think it could be a surprise.

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Re: bshorey, top notch guy!

Photato/Fotahto... tongue

I was just giving you the gears about the Barbie comments, it's all good.

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Re: bshorey, top notch guy!

A Lemons TVR? Hooray!

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Re: bshorey, top notch guy!

Styling of the TVR was by Oliver Winterbottom.
Seriously?

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Re: bshorey, top notch guy!

chdonley2 wrote:

Styling of the TVR was by Oliver Winterbottom.
Seriously?

Really? Sounds like a character from Harry Potter .

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Re: bshorey, top notch guy!

Judge Phil wrote:

A Lemons TVR? DOMINATION Awaits!!

You spelled that wrong...

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swindrum wrote:
Judge Phil wrote:

A Lemons TVR? DOMINATION Awaits!!

You spelled that wrong...

Sean,

You need to tell everybody what came with the car.  Not the candles, or the Sesame Street guitar, the other stuff..

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Re: bshorey, top notch guy!

I guarantee that the $500 MY ASS!!!1!!! crowd is going to get brain bubbles when they find out about a Lemons TVR. So we also need a Lemons Esprit Turbo. Budget exemption for Esprit Turbos!

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Re: bshorey, top notch guy!

Judge Phil wrote:

I guarantee that the $500 MY ASS!!!1!!! crowd is going to get brain bubbles when they find out about a Lemons TVR. So we also need a Lemons Esprit Turbo. Budget exemption for Esprit Turbos!

Right up until they see it... I am almost surprised I drove 1800 miles to get this thing, almost.

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Re: bshorey, top notch guy!

Judge Phil wrote:

I guarantee that the $500 MY ASS!!!1!!! crowd is going to get brain bubbles when they find out about a Lemons TVR. So we also need a Lemons Esprit Turbo. Budget exemption for Esprit Turbos!

Didn't Sasha and the Spudnik gang pick up a fire damaged one a couple of years ago?

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So I received word from Silversleeves "Racing"'s Seattle division, they were working on the TVR today and after cleaning out the sludge from the fuel tank and going over the Bosche Jet-Tronic fuel injection, and sorting out the electrical, they turned the key, the engine spun over AND...

Nothin' , nada, butkiss... Shocking

I'm sure it is just saving all of its best engine-ing for the inevitable DOMINATION!

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Also, they put the car up on the lift, apparently, someone had sawzalled through some of the chassis legs in what was most likely an attempt to remove the Jaguar rear end. The nerve...

We all know that the key to winning in Lemons is MOAR JAG PARTS!
I'm talking to you, Transcontinental Drifters. smile

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swindrum wrote:

So I received word from Silversleeves "Racing"'s Seattle division, they were working on the TVR today and after cleaning out the sludge from the fuel tank and going over the Bosche Jet-Tronic fuel injection, and sorting out the electrical, they turned the key, the engine spun over AND...

Nothin' , nada, butkiss... Shocking

I'm sure it is just saving all of its best engine-ing for the inevitable DOMINATION!

Sean,

Did you ensure that the supplemental fuel pump wiring, you know, the wire that runs over the top of the car across the cockpit, is functional?

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Re: bshorey, top notch guy!

I highly recommend using a jerrycan of gas for test-firing the motor while you're getting the original tank boiled at a radiator shop. I wouldn't trusty myself and any Home Depot grade chemicals to clean it. The longer a tank and gas sits, the more it gums up. Rust particles collect. You'll find them in your fuel filter very quickly afterward. Been there, done that. (Also, ask 3PM and their Citroen smile).

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Re: bshorey, top notch guy!

MikeZilla wrote:
chdonley2 wrote:

Styling of the TVR was by Oliver Winterbottom.
Seriously?

Really? Sounds like a character from Harry Potter .

Or a relative of Frosty's, which may or may not mean this has unobtanium V8 Supercars parts. CHEATURZZ!1!!

(J/K. This is AWESOME.)

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So, the latest report out of the PNW, is that out mechanical fuel injection wizard has disassembled the system and has deemed it FUBARed, no big deal, it is supposedly Ford Cologne V6 and cheap and plentiful. Uh, nope...
Apparently TVR used the same fuel injection as, wait for it, DeLorean!
There is no way we can lose, please, Judge Phil, with Delorean and Jaguar parts, go easy on the penalty laps and we will try not to DOMINATE too much.

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Re: bshorey, top notch guy!

Pictures! The Working (on Cars) Classes Need Pictures!

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Re: bshorey, top notch guy!

I am an international border, a ferry crossing, and a 3 hour drive away, sadly I can only report what my American team mates tell me, I will ask for photos...

I can talk them into getting terrible cars, just not into photographing them.

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I appreciate and understand your sadness. Damn non-image recording Yanks!

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Re: bshorey, top notch guy!

swindrum wrote:

So, the latest report out of the PNW, is that out mechanical fuel injection wizard has disassembled the system and has deemed it FUBARed, no big deal, it is supposedly Ford Cologne V6 and cheap and plentiful. Uh, nope...
Apparently TVR used the same fuel injection as, wait for it, DeLorean!
There is no way we can lose, please, Judge Phil, with Delorean and Jaguar parts, go easy on the penalty laps and we will try not to DOMINATE too much.

Do you have this?  Might be able to hack something together with similar parts?  Especially if it's K or L Jetronic.
http://www.vaglinks.com/Docs/Catalogues … ations.pdf

If you have L Jetronic, and you work all the way to the end of the diagnostic table to "Test with known good ECU"  (yeah, I have one sitting around for an 88 Saab), then these guys might have something.  Our rebuilt ECU with warranty was $95.
http://programainc.com/

The bad ECU must have been what sent my Saab into storage under a tree for a few years, but in the meantime tank, injectors, lines were all crudded up.  Thankfully, plastic tank!  Good luck!

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Isn't the TVR V6 K-jet (CIS)?

Give Larry at CIS Flowtech a call. Those fuel distributors and WUR or EHA setups are eerily similar. Guy worked wonders on a 380SL and a Bentley Turbo R for me (Ok, Bentley wasn't mine, long story) and I'm sure can help with any version of that setup...

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Re: bshorey, top notch guy!

swindrum wrote:

Also, they put the car up on the lift, apparently, someone had sawzalled through some of the chassis legs in what was most likely an attempt to remove the Jaguar rear end. The nerve...

We all know that the key to winning in Lemons is MOAR JAG PARTS!
I'm talking to you, Transcontinental Drifters. smile

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Re: bshorey, top notch guy!

C_T_C, if you hear of another cheap Jag (preferably running) that I can drive home to Victoria and transform into the 13glcoat (*13th greatest Lemons Car of all Time)

Ok, maybe not even the top 100 greatest Lemons car of all time, but I have a car that is yearning to have a jag drivetrain. NOT the TVR..

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Re: bshorey, top notch guy!

Any year preference? Carbs, EFI, Lucus, Non-Ford? I will start posting more Jags on the for sale page. bshorey, top notch guy! (thread highjack) Meet me over in the JAGWHATEVER thread.

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