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Ok, so assuming I decide to keep trudging on with my project, I have several decisions to make.
My car is a 54. TS5012. short door. for mods it already has 2 rows of louvers in the bonnett, done back in the day. and somewhere along the line it's had the stronger TR3 rear axle fitted. the matching numbers engine block is long gone, but I have the early low port head and 2 bolt SU intake manifold.
First there is the mechanical things.
I have all the parts of the front disc brakes off of a 66 TR4A, and was planning to retrofit them to the 2, tucking all the drum pieces carefully away, but I'm not sure if I really need to use the discs.
Second, I have a complete TR4A engine and tranny, I was planning to use that setup(swapping out the front plate), but I also wondered if I should look for the early 2 bolt carbs, and use the low port head on the TR3 block I also have so it would be closer to original.
I'm no hot rodder. I like to stretch a cars legs, but I'm not a race car driver. SO I'm thinking I could get away without the discs, and the extra power.
And the last, biggest thing.
Paint color. This car was originally Geranium. however much I want to keep things original, I just can't live with that color. It's just nasty. (Yes, I have seen one painted that color)
So it's down to a toss-up between Signal red (like every other one out there) British racing Green (lots of those too) or an Idea I can't get out of my head of using that dark maroonish red that the early Alfas and Ferraris used (solid color, no metallic). I just keep thinking how sweet that would look. With either steel wheels or spokes, painted to match.. Also a medium brown interior.
OOOOOOOh yea.....
So waddya all think would all that be blasphemous? or subtly different.
My car is a 54. TS5012. short door. for mods it already has 2 rows of louvers in the bonnett, done back in the day. and somewhere along the line it's had the stronger TR3 rear axle fitted. the matching numbers engine block is long gone, but I have the early low port head and 2 bolt SU intake manifold.
First there is the mechanical things.
I have all the parts of the front disc brakes off of a 66 TR4A, and was planning to retrofit them to the 2, tucking all the drum pieces carefully away, but I'm not sure if I really need to use the discs.
Second, I have a complete TR4A engine and tranny, I was planning to use that setup(swapping out the front plate), but I also wondered if I should look for the early 2 bolt carbs, and use the low port head on the TR3 block I also have so it would be closer to original.
I'm no hot rodder. I like to stretch a cars legs, but I'm not a race car driver. SO I'm thinking I could get away without the discs, and the extra power.
And the last, biggest thing.
Paint color. This car was originally Geranium. however much I want to keep things original, I just can't live with that color. It's just nasty. (Yes, I have seen one painted that color)
So it's down to a toss-up between Signal red (like every other one out there) British racing Green (lots of those too) or an Idea I can't get out of my head of using that dark maroonish red that the early Alfas and Ferraris used (solid color, no metallic). I just keep thinking how sweet that would look. With either steel wheels or spokes, painted to match.. Also a medium brown interior.
OOOOOOOh yea.....
So waddya all think would all that be blasphemous? or subtly different.