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I am not really new, drove in the Buttonwillow event last fall with Team Bean.
I purchased a 1980 Triumph Spitfire for $120. The engine is suppose to run but has carb problems. My son will build this one and we should have it ready some time this year. Here is a link to picture as purchases.
I'm tellin' ya, rip out that motor-- sell it and the overdrive tranny, and then drop a V8 in that thing
Yeah, it's only money and why be reliable when you can make a screwed up car that will break down.
sbf/sbc swaps have been done in that car many times ovr with little or no issues. find a crashed mustang, camero, something like that for a couple hundred bucks. dig out the metal orkng tools, and have at it.
maybe you shoud try the project the heckler, jtw, or us are attempting.
i almost killed myself in one of those when i was 19. beware of the rear suspension folding up.
If it has been done many times, why do it? Besides the front suspension will not handle the weight of the engine so it has to be beefed up, then the rear end needs to be upgraded to handle the torque.
There are much better engine choices that will be more efficient, ligher and more reliable.
If it has been done many times, why do it? Besides the front suspension will not handle the weight of the engine so it has to be beefed up, then the rear end needs to be upgraded to handle the torque.
There are much better engine choices that will be more efficient, ligher and more reliable.
No, you got it right the first time:
Yeah, it's only money and why be reliable when you can make a screwed up car that will break down.
Now THAT'S Lemons
Give it up it will not have a large over weight engine, period.
I am not really new, drove in the Buttonwillow event last fall with Team Bean.
I purchased a 1980 Triumph Spitfire for $120. The engine is suppose to run but has carb problems. My son will build this one and we should have it ready some time this year. Here is a link to picture as purchases.
Looks like a great start! If we get our TR6 racing, the next step is to build a Spit as a backup (have lots of free parts hanging around)...
Best of luck!!!! Us British car teams need to stick together... :-)
whatever, it's not mine.......
WHOO-HOO!! Another Brit-Bucket!!
Give it up it will not have a large over weight engine, period.
You just don't get it do you?!
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