Club Triumph

Here are two pictures or my TR7 which is nearly ready for the body shop, hopefully before Christmas and on the road for summer. I hope you find them interesting

Phil

Interesting looking engine swap.
Would be even more interesting with a little more info  ;)

Hi

Its a Vauxhall 2.5 V6 taken from an 2000 Omega which should put out about 170 bhp and gave me about 32 -35 mpg when it was in the Omega should be even better in the TR The Omega was 50% heaver


I will post some more info in a day or two (just about to go out)

Phil  

Should make for a nicely quick and economical touring car  8)
Ideal for the RBRR or the 10CR  ;D

I have been working on the car on and off for last 3 years (other projects got in the way) and it has to be worked on the drive so the weather can be a problem  

Here is the finished build spec I am working towards

Remote central locking
Electric Power steering (Corsa C)
Trip computer (mpg outside temp ect)
Cruise  control
Auto dipping internal mirror
Variable speed intermittent wipers  
Toyota MR2 half leather (now heated)  seats
Electric windows
Transponder keyed
Toyota headlamp lifters (very fast and synchronized)
Vauxhall wiring loom
Vented front disks
SD1 diff
Poly Bushed  
Updated suspension (possibly lowered slightly)
MGF Alloys  
Rally style front spoiler

And work completed so far on the car

Nearside front wing and front panel replaced by previous owner after minor accident
Offside wing replaced
Left and right inner flitch panels
Doors re-skinned
Bonnet replaced
Offside sill (replaced because of corroded inner panel)
Both rear outer wheel arches        
Both inner and outer rear sills
Engine bay and boot painted in Ford Sea Gray
Engine with modified sump  and gear box fitted
Radiator fitted
Up rated Brake servo and master cylinder
Front Poly bushed

I have also completed a lot of work in the background with parts ready to go

Hope this is of interest

Phil  

i like looks very nice

Please...Don't give me ideas for Ruby :-/

At last, its finally gone to the paint shop today

Should be back in about two weeks

Thats a different install, why put a rover in for similar power when its a more straight forwards install? nice one tho.. is it all up and running?

Hi

It's still in the paint shop, I told them to take as much time as  wanted, as it will be in the way when it comes back until the weather bucks up, but it should be on the road for the summer
I still have lots of work to do with the wiring loom fuel systems and so on
I have been busy on jobs like fitting Vauxhall clocks into the TR,s housing ect (which I am very pleased with)

I know the Rover V8 would have been easy ,I have had have two SD1,s in the past one a Vitesse  which I stripped  rebuilt the V8

I just wanted to do something a bit different and challenging (I got that right)

There seems to be a trend of using Vauxhall powerplants and not just the "red top" engines. There's a Toledo with a GM Family II engine (remember them? Most 80s Vauxhalls had them in various capacities) that came out of a Carlton and an Omega gearbox.

Yes your options are quite limited now with most modern cars being front wheel drive apart from BMW

The Carlton and  Omega use the same gearbox, I had to fit a Carlton Speedo drive into my Omega box (the Omega takes its signal from the offside rear wheel ABS sensor)  

I called into the body shop today to check on progress, it's looking good

They have tanen all the old paint off back to steel, its now having its first coat of primer flatted down

Then its back in for more priming on Friday

Hopefully should be finished by the end of next week      

Good progress by the sound of it, keeep us posted  :)

Its finally back and they have made a fantastic job of it, here are photos I took today

looks great, nice choice!

Looking good, although I am more into bright colours  ;)
(but that's a matter of taste, or lack of it in my case  :P)

But seeing what you have done so far it will be a cracking car  8)

I just wanted something a bit different and modern but I have to say that your car look Fantastic in Green

I am now slowly staring put bits back in, which is the bit I have been looking forward to, I hate body work.

Here  is a photo of the headlamp lifters just before I bolted them back in, complete with modified Toyota motors which may be of interest

The Toyota system works on the same principles as the Triumph just a bit more refined using modern electronics so adapting it is pretty strait forward

Mounting  the motors just a matter of drilling the mounting brackets and bolting them on.

To fit the Triumph arm to the drive shaft I soldered a washer to it to make it a little thicker and then drilled the hole using a cone cutter, the Toyota shaft is just like the tapered shaft for a windscreen wiper, so once the arm is the correct position its just tighten the nut up to lock it.

Unlike the Triumph, the motors are handed, but this wasn't a problem I just reversed the polarity on one motor, or you could buy two of the same hand,

I am using the Vauxhall loom, but with the Triumph  wiring the control module could be mounted behind the glove box in place of the Pektron and run stop relays, existing wiring would have to be altered but this should be just a case of modifying connections at both end. no extra cables are required.

I think the inputs to the controller are negative so you may need a relay to invert the up circuit  

I was able to buy the two motors and control module from Ebay for £30.00      

Hope that's useful

Phil

Nice car! I love that dark silver/grey.