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To: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
Subject: TR6+TRIPLE CARBS
From: paulg@mansun.lut.ac.uk (paul gilders rs)
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 94 08:51:03 BST
COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com writes:
 > Paul Gilders,
 > Welcome back. A few years ago George Haynes and I went to
 > to picnic at The Roadster Factory. There was a guy with a
 > very quick TR6 on Redline tyres. He had welded up a manifold
 > and mounted three Strombergs on it (don't know why he chose
 > those over SU's). He had done a lot of trick stuff to the car.
 > He also made his own roller rockers.

I should imagine that he chose strombergs since SUs are slightly
taller and might cause difficulty in mounting them if you required to
push them further down the bonnet... - did he have to manufacture a
TR5/250-like bulge in the bonnet?

Paul.


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