>TW
>You have been peaking in my garage!
Nope I was basically describing my own engine and TR3A.
>Seriously, except for no air cleaners (to be installed later) and the fact
>that I do like a soft rear sway bar, your description could be of my engine
>and car.
Everything I have been reading or hearing from the TR racers say that
increasing the stiffness of the rear makes the rear more squirrely and
more apt to leave a rear tyre raised coming of tight high speed curves
when you need to get traction to the ground. One way I have heard to
compensate for the tendency to raise a wheel is to use longer shackles.
I looked into air cleaners, found out right angle ones did not flow well
nor did sock type air cleaners. I went with the itg filter because it
seemed to filter well, the surface opposite the throats was an air
drawing surface and there is just plain hardly any space in front of that
#1 throat.
I'm using an itg "JC 50/25 filter on a 28-JC-50 back plate (spaced for
the TWM DCOE manifolds).
A TR4 application has a lot more space between the carbs and inner wing
and can go with the JC 50/65 filter and stock horns.
25mm (1 inch) seems to be the minimum recommended spacing for proper air
flow between the DCOE horns and an air filter that can draw air from the
oposite side. If you have a plate oposit the throats you need a lot more
space than is available between the front DCOE and the inner wing. You
could modify the inner wing surface but I wanted to keep mine stock. I
was able to keep minimum optimum clearence every place but the front
lower half of the #1 cylinder throat.
> You are even close on the jetting of the Webers.
So which DCOEs are you using and what jetting?
> Car is very strong from about 3500 up to?
Mine starts coming on the cam at about 3000 RPM and is accelerating
strongly above 3200. The highest I have had mine is 6000 for very short
times. Under max acceleration I try to shift around 5600 - 5700 RPM.
>Stewart warner Fuel pump with a pressure regulator as I haven't had much
>luck with the original type pump
Stock TR fuel pumps are high volume, low pressure. You seldom see more
than 3 pounds pressure out of them. Most serious racers are using stock
fuel pumps so I decided that if it is good enough for a highly
competitive racing Morgan like "Baby Doll" it is good enough for me.
Good dialog!
TeriAnn Near Santa Cruz, California
My old car 1960 Land Rover 109 owned since 1978
My new car 1961 Triumph TR3A owned since 1986
"Who could ask for anything more"
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