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Re: the devil replies - TR cylinder heads

To: "George P. Richardson" <gprtech@frontiernet.net>
Subject: Re: the devil replies - TR cylinder heads
From: "Michael D. Porter" <mdporter@rt66.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 00:13:29 -0800
Cc: Steve Chandler <stevec@rtd.com>, Triumph mailing list <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Organization: Barely Enough
References: <000401bd0b42$6768a420$458e82d1@merlin-cad>
George P. Richardson wrote:
> 
> I had read in a recent magazine that it was because the P.I. system didn't
> work well in all of the variuos climates in the USA, but I'll bet it was
> more because of the difficulty of setting them up for the different
> climates. In other words, the dealers didn't have trained technicians, like
> Steve said.

Climate might be an approximation--what the earliest PI systems lacked
(and, as I was told last year, was later made available) was barometric
compensation. Altitude differences certainly would have been a factor in
their tractability in US terrain.

Cheers.

-- 
My other Triumph runs, but....

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