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Re: headers

To: Ken Boetzer <kboetzer@auspex.com>
Subject: Re: headers
From: Ken Streeter <streeter@sanders.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 18:17:41 -0400
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net, jammer@lnknet.com
Organization: Lockheed Sanders, Inc.
References: <199610102201.PAA03793@daffy.auspex.com>
Ken Boetzer wrote:

> jammer@lnknet.com wrote:

> > I heard that headers would be the first thing to put on a car to improve
> > its performance.  Can or should I do this to my 1976 Triumph TR7.  I'm not
> > sure if they even make them for my car.

Headers are made for the TR7.  I'm sure that Victoria British carries
them, and
assume that Moss Motors and The Roadster Factory would as well.

As others have mentioned, headers are an easy, low-cost HP enhancer.

> Doesn't this beg for some flipant comment about driving off a cliff?
> ... hough handling improvements are the most fun per $ spent.
> Sway bars, shocks, tires, and such.

Yes, but he has a TR7!  The stock TR7 will out-handle the prior big TRs
(TR2-TR6) in stock configuration. (Now, where did I put that asbestos
suit? :-))

--ken
'74 TR6 Daily Driver

PS:  I seem to recall that 0-60 times off a cliff aren't really
     particularly short.  Does anybody know if any of the Triumphs can
     reach 60 mph faster on a road, or falling off a cliff?

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