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> Sorry to intrude again... Firstly, you folks bashing the 1500 Midget should
> make note of the years involved. Don't forget that all cars were having
> trouble with emissions standards then. B-L felt that a larger engien was
> necessary to keep the Midget's power up, and the existing block wouldn't
> stand more enlarging. It is a safe bet that if they had tried to meet the
> higher emissions standards with the 1275 engine, it would have been worse.
> (So it wasn't the fault of the Triumph 1500 engine! Blame the Feds.)
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> Jim Muller
>
Jim, we were not trying to blame it on the TR engine per se. We know
all about the problems of the era. I was there, you know. The use of
the "1500" label was merely for identification. Perhaps we should
have said "rubber-bumper Midget". The problems that concerned us
were the terrible handling of the stock setup, caused by the raising
of the body and the suspension geometry used. That is why the one
defender of the car missed the point. He had retroed the car to 1275
specs, esentially proving our point.
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