markpentre
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just Bought this for restiration over the winter. Straight six engine. Any one on here Have one??
Good website !
I do have a cousin, it'll be the same engine..View attachment 746902
Yes - it beggars belief that engineers could produce a really good double wishbone front suspension & then top it off with that abortion of a back end - a real Friday-afternoon-in-the-design-office jobI think the Mk1 vitesse/herald/spitfire/GT6 chassis had a single top transverse leaf spring and no bottom wishbone, so it would corner until the critical point and then the whole wheel and hub tucked in under with drastic results. The Mk2 versions had a bottom wishbone added which stabilised the whole job. I was a Triumph fan and worked my way through all those and then the TR's . Favourite was TR4A, had a few of them and rather wish I had one now.
I had a Vitesse 2 litre (early ones were 1600 I think) at agric college in 70's swapped it for a series 2 Land Rover..... it was a pocket rocket and made a great noise.
Fours were renowned for it too! Never a month went by without at least one triumph engine going to South Cerney for their magic repair!Wish I still had mine. Yours would be one of last ones made. Much better suspension than earlier ones. Seem to remember rear diff was a weak point, all the Triumph straight sixes had a tendency to drop crank thrust washers plus the dreaded rot.
Great to work on with the full lift up bonnet. Fairly bomb proof and great fun.
I’ve got a TR6!!
2.5 PI straight six, drove it to Classic Le Mans and back in the summer with my 16 year old son as a bit of a road trip. It was the only one in the convoy that didn’t break down!