Fwiw, I came across some information regarding the fact that Spitfires
(and presumably other Triumphs) were always available in custom paint
schemes from the factory. This was a little known, rarely used, option.
I think the custom painting was done on Friday's at the factories. If
I remember co
Dear Larry,
I have a pair of 40DCOE18s on my spit 1500 and found that first start
up was really easy with the standard jet settings as per the triumphtune
catalogue.
It was more trickey to get them to run smoothly on transition from the
idle jets, although 2 hours on the rolling road with some
Larry I put a pair or twin SU on my car. So have a number of others.
Follow the setup instructions for after a rebuild in the manuals (
Haynes or Bentley) and you should not have any trouble. I don't see why
they would be any different than putting on the Webers. They would not
ruin the cylinde
I will be starting up a rebuilt motor soon. Is 20-50 the correct break in
oil?
I have a problem with the motor I am rebuilding. The original Stromberg carb
shot a stream of gas out of a hole, but ran if some one held a finger on it.
I ran a single 40DCOE18 with good results for a very brief period.
At 11:30 AM -0500 12/10/02, Douglas Braun wrote, concerning
the oddities of the '72 cars:
>I have a '72 built in October 1971 (FK26439L), and as far as I can
>tell it never had the black rear panel. But I cannot be 100% certain, since
>a PO repainted the car.
>
>You have the black plastic dashboa
I have a '72 built in October 1971 (FK26439L), and as far as I can
tell it never had the black rear panel. But I cannot be 100% certain, since
a PO repainted the car.
You have the black plastic dashboard, right?
The correct vacuum unit for the distributor is very hard to find. I'm
lucky that mi
At 2:12 PM + 12/10/02, Richard Gosling wrote:
>Is that black paint on the number plate panel original? I vaguely remember
>someone saying that Triumph did this for a year or so, but can't remember
>the details. Maybe it was a US-market only thing? I know that the Toledo
>(small early-70s sa
Ken,
Is that black paint on the number plate panel original? I vaguely remember
someone saying that Triumph did this for a year or so, but can't remember
the details. Maybe it was a US-market only thing? I know that the Toledo
(small early-70s saloon car) had a black panel at the back in a simi
http://campaign.duke.edu/~ken/hillsboro/triumph.html
I took a few photos of my '72 Spit just after I got the
engine back in to prove to a couple friends of mine
that it was actually running again. Thought I would
pass them along to the general readership on this
slow Tuesday, my first day back at
