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Wedge Love my TR8

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Well, I guess we don't have to ask whether you've started driving it. :smile: Have you taken a "test drive" through some twisties yet? I found that I had to test mine multiple times through the twisties. :smile:

I took my Mum to the DCTRA (Desert Centre Triumph group in Phoenix) meeting last night. We had good fun driving there and back and meeting the Triumph folks.
 
Have driven through a few fun turns , have to solve a few problems before I go crazy like , no battery tie down, so so tie rod end and the exhaust seems like it may have plugged cats. Parts are on the way and will take off the cats and intermediate mufflers and see how that works. For a car with a straight rear axle it handles quite well. I was told old fuel will plug the cats quite fast. I know this car was sitting for quite some time with bad fuel.
 
Once you get that thing sorted out, you'll REALLY enjoy it! Taking mine out for a run tomorrow morning before the asphalt turns liquid.
 
tdskip said:
Just wait to do get poly bushings on there and uprated springs!
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Yep - HUGE difference. Put the thing on rails, they do!
 
Seems we are getting quite a collection of TR8 owners lately.

I didn't do the poly bushings....they were just to stiff for my tastes. New rubber ones worked for me.....but I don't drag race around either.

Still convinced the single most important modification I did was those silly foot well vents! :smile:

Congrats on the new (to you) TR8!
 
I have been away so long I now have an un-inspected TR8 :frown: . I still drove it to work yesterday, had to pull over and throw the top up as I drove into a rain storm. I will leave it in the garage until I get it inspected now, hopefully Saturday. So fun, top down driving, listening to the exhaust...
 
PATR8 said:
I have been away so long I now have an un-inspected TR8 :frown: . I still drove it to work yesterday, had to pull over and throw the top up as I drove into a rain storm. I will leave it in the garage until I get it inspected now, hopefully Saturday. So fun, top down driving, listening to the exhaust...
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At 75mph the rain just goes right over the car. :smile: No need to put the top up.
 
I have "heard" that but of course I would never try that, our speed limit is 55 mph in our fine state.
 
The reason we are getting so many TR8 owners lately is because we are all hitting mid life crisis time. I just hit mine earlier than you guys did. I was 22 when I got my first TR8.
 
tr8todd said:
The reason we are getting so many TR8 owners lately is because we are all hitting mid life crisis time. I just hit mine earlier than you guys did. I was 22 when I got my first TR8.
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I just asked my wife, she said I'm too young. She also said that for me, I'd be more likely to buy a mini-van seeing as I've always had sports cars. :smile:
 
BR Auto Body- you into going to car shows. Portland is Labor day
 
Good show , hope it's big enough for 2 wedges if it rains
 
Don,

Don't you know that it never rains in Portland?
But bring suntan lotion & an umbrella anyway.

- Doug
 
That was some pretty wet sunshine they had last year I hear
 
I used to race @ PIR - we had every kind of weather-
90+ sunshine,pouring rain,& of course, a volcano erupting.
Where else can you buy that kind of excitement?

- Doug
 
AngliaGT said:
I used to race @ PIR - we had every kind of weather-
90+ sunshine,pouring rain,& of course, a volcano erupting.
Where else can you buy that kind of excitement?

- Doug
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LOL - I bet.
 
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