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No mention of frame reinforcement.
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Aside from anything else - it's an automatic. Just my opinion, but in a "drivers" car such as a Triumph that is like a broken pencil - pointless.
racingenglishcars
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With the automatic, don't think of it as a "drivers" car. Think of it as a sporty and powerful Toyota.
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I've heard that the modern Corvettes handle pretty well. At least they are designed with that motor in mind...
I followed the Morgan link from the links page on this site. That takes you to a place where they are putting Corvette motors into Morgans and calling the result "Plus Eight Plus" or something. I believe a mere $35,000 or so is enough to have the job done to your Morgan.
I've got to think that a TR6 with that much motor in the front is a straight-line rocket ship that has to be slowed way down to negotiate the curves.
I followed the Morgan link from the links page on this site. That takes you to a place where they are putting Corvette motors into Morgans and calling the result "Plus Eight Plus" or something. I believe a mere $35,000 or so is enough to have the job done to your Morgan.
I've got to think that a TR6 with that much motor in the front is a straight-line rocket ship that has to be slowed way down to negotiate the curves.
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Thing is, you can find some pretty substantial motors that don't weigh any more than the stock cast iron lump.Moseso said:
https://www.britishv8.org/Triumph/DanMasters.htm
And since the V8s are typically shorter than the inline 6, they can also sit farther back and improve weight distribution. The net result can easily be a car that handles much better than a stock TR6.
One of our local club members has a SBF with aluminum heads in his TR4; he figures he actually shaved some weight off the original 4-pot ! And I know from observation that he doesn't slow down for curves !
Haven't seen Steve in awhile ... wonder if he ever reached his goal of 0-100-0 in 10 seconds ?
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racingenglishcars said:
I agree totally, so many LBC V-8 conversions, Cobra replicas etc. with automatics, I just don't get it. Then again I only had one automatic in any of my daily drivers, etc, a Mazda Millenia S I had briefly, loved the car, hated the autobox (partly just because it was a slushbox, moreso because it was a bad slushbox tied to a very good motor).
Anyway, as stated, don't get it, is an autobox easier to install when you do a conversion, or just so many more of them lying around?
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I believe it's a little of both. Automatic linkages are usually trivial to hook up and get to work well (plus of course they don't have to work constantly) ... many of them are simple cables. But clutch & shifter linkages are significantly harder to get to work properly, with good feel and all. And having a manual shift go wrong can be pretty disastrous (once caught 1st gear instead of 3rd due to a shifter problem while trying to run a timed 1/4 mile).glemon said:
But it's also hard to find manual gearboxes for most V8s. They are mostly only found in muscle cars anyway (even Corvettes are usually automatics these days) and the price for a good unit tend to be high.
Plus a well-setup auto actually offers better straight-line performance ! With torque multiplication and 4 or more gears, they can keep the engine nearer it's power peak longer, which more than compensates for the higher losses in the torque converter, etc. Keeping the throttles wide all the time helps too.
