Ron Earp
Admin
A little "un GT40 related", but a question sort of directed at our UK friends.
My friend Jeff races, rather successfully I must say, a TR8 here in the states in SCCA Club racing. We are restricted to "stock" parts, but can take our pick from parts offered from the factory.
Right now the TR8 wears a horribly twisted carb intake that has two Stromberg 175 carbs. It works, but we know it is costing us power. We recently got a stock Triumph 3.5L V8 upper and lower manifold and it is much better with respect to the ports. We suspect it would make more power too.
One nice thing about the series we race in is while we must use stock parts some things are free - like the ECU. We must use the stock wiring harness but it could go to a Motec ECU for example.
What we'd really like to have, or what we are looking for, is a complete EFI setup for one of these cars. Or, a complete wiring harness would allow me to do what we wish to do, which is use the upper and lower intake and drive the thing with a Megasquirt ECU.
Does anyone on the forum have some contacts or know where we might get a harness? Like I said, we have an upper and lower we bought off Ebay from England, but need a harness. I know it is popular for 3.5L guys to chuck the EFI and run a 4bbl carb, so maybe someone knows of some cast off parts we could score. We just missed a COMPLETE EFI setup on Ebay here in the US for $380, for some reason my high bid was not taken and we lost out. So, we're looking again.
Thanks for any help,
Ron
My friend Jeff races, rather successfully I must say, a TR8 here in the states in SCCA Club racing. We are restricted to "stock" parts, but can take our pick from parts offered from the factory.
Right now the TR8 wears a horribly twisted carb intake that has two Stromberg 175 carbs. It works, but we know it is costing us power. We recently got a stock Triumph 3.5L V8 upper and lower manifold and it is much better with respect to the ports. We suspect it would make more power too.
One nice thing about the series we race in is while we must use stock parts some things are free - like the ECU. We must use the stock wiring harness but it could go to a Motec ECU for example.
What we'd really like to have, or what we are looking for, is a complete EFI setup for one of these cars. Or, a complete wiring harness would allow me to do what we wish to do, which is use the upper and lower intake and drive the thing with a Megasquirt ECU.
Does anyone on the forum have some contacts or know where we might get a harness? Like I said, we have an upper and lower we bought off Ebay from England, but need a harness. I know it is popular for 3.5L guys to chuck the EFI and run a 4bbl carb, so maybe someone knows of some cast off parts we could score. We just missed a COMPLETE EFI setup on Ebay here in the US for $380, for some reason my high bid was not taken and we lost out. So, we're looking again.
Thanks for any help,
Ron