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Re: [6pack] TR6 Cylinder Heads and Lucas Petrol Injection

To: "Terry Geiger" <tgeiger@shoalsbritishcars.org>,
Subject: Re: [6pack] TR6 Cylinder Heads and Lucas Petrol Injection
From: "Tony Gordon" <triumph@2simpleusa.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:55:39 -0500
I've attached my notes on the conversion.  let me know if you need any more 
info.

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Tony Gordon
72 TR6
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry Geiger" <tgeiger@shoalsbritishcars.org>
To: <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:51 AM
Subject: [6pack] TR6 Cylinder Heads and Lucas Petrol Injection


> The recent discussion of TR6 cylinder heads brings up a subject for which 
> I
> anticipate to come up next year.
>
> A friend and myself both have TR6's and my friend has family in Australia. 
> A
> recent visit from one of the Australians (he is a car guy) brought up the
> subject of Lucas PI systems as used on the six cylinder TR engines.  Our
> Australian friend is going to check on getting two complete PI systems 
> shipped
> back to us for possible installation on our TR6's.  They are basically 
> throw
> away items in Australia at this point so we probably will have more in the
> shipping cost than in the actual components.
>
> The web site www.lucasinjection.com has been somewhat helpful but I'd love 
> to
> hear from someone with first hand experience with converting a carburated 
> 2.5
> Triumph engine to Lucas PI.
>
> What cylinder head is needed for use with the Lucas PI system?  My car has 
> the
> later (wide port spacing) cylinder head.  My friend's car has the earlier
> (narrow port spacing) cylinder head.  Rimmer Brothers shows two injection
> systems early (to commission # CP5000) and late (from commission # 
> CP50001).
> Is the differences for spacing of the cylinder head ports?
>
> Are the ignition distributors different?
>
> I realize they are more modern alternatives for fuel injection (Rick 
> Patton's
> electronic injection, etc) and from a purely performance/reliability
> standpoint the modern electronic system is probably a better choice.  I'm
> trying to gather some input to try to determine which way to go.  I'm 
> actually
> leaning toward the modern system electronic system but my friend wants to 
> go
> the Lucas PI route.

[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pdf which had a name of 
PI Conversion notes.pdf]




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