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Tomorrow will be three months since I got my TR8.
If you read some of my previous posts about the car, you may know that my plan is to use it as a daily driver. It hasn't quite made it to that point yet, but at this point it has more to do with the logistics of getting it out of the garage past the rest of the fleet.
When I started thinking about a wedge, everyone said to get an 8. At the time I had only really thought about a 7 (and hadn't driven either). I do have to say that I think everyone was right. I still haven't driven a 7, but the 8 is so smooth compared even to modern 4 bangers that it isn't even a fair comparison. And the low rumble of the engine is something you just don't hear much anymore.
This past weekend I fixed a leaking lower radiator hose, and while checking out that work I noticed fuel leaking from the fuel rail. After shutting down the engine to contemplate what would need to be removed to replace all of the little hoses to the injectors, I decided to check the clamps. Sure enough, the clamps were quite loose, and a little snugging up stopped the leakage. That, along with fixing the slow coolant leak really helped reduce the "after run smell". Can't hurt fuel economy, either. But perhaps explains why the top of the engine is so nice and clean!
There is still lots of little project to do. One other thing I did was to pull the passenger door panel to tighten up the door handle. Turns out one of the nuts was gone, and the other was very loose. I replace them with some nylon nuts, so that shouldn't work loose again.
So in the next month or so I'll probably sell my other daily driver, and jump into this adventure!
If you read some of my previous posts about the car, you may know that my plan is to use it as a daily driver. It hasn't quite made it to that point yet, but at this point it has more to do with the logistics of getting it out of the garage past the rest of the fleet.
When I started thinking about a wedge, everyone said to get an 8. At the time I had only really thought about a 7 (and hadn't driven either). I do have to say that I think everyone was right. I still haven't driven a 7, but the 8 is so smooth compared even to modern 4 bangers that it isn't even a fair comparison. And the low rumble of the engine is something you just don't hear much anymore.
This past weekend I fixed a leaking lower radiator hose, and while checking out that work I noticed fuel leaking from the fuel rail. After shutting down the engine to contemplate what would need to be removed to replace all of the little hoses to the injectors, I decided to check the clamps. Sure enough, the clamps were quite loose, and a little snugging up stopped the leakage. That, along with fixing the slow coolant leak really helped reduce the "after run smell". Can't hurt fuel economy, either. But perhaps explains why the top of the engine is so nice and clean!
There is still lots of little project to do. One other thing I did was to pull the passenger door panel to tighten up the door handle. Turns out one of the nuts was gone, and the other was very loose. I replace them with some nylon nuts, so that shouldn't work loose again.
So in the next month or so I'll probably sell my other daily driver, and jump into this adventure!
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