Triumph Sports Cars

engine swaps and other performance upgrades, plus "factory" V8s (Stag and TR8)

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BWA


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TR6 With BMW 325i Engine
Posted by: BWA
Date: January 12, 2012 03:27PM

I know this link has been around for some time but I think it is another example of the different type of engines that you can stuff into the TR6. Check it out at the following link:

[roadspeed.blogspot.com]


Cheers
Byron


74ls1tr6
Calvin Grannis
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Re: TR6 With BMW 325i Engine
Posted by: 74ls1tr6
Date: January 12, 2012 05:38PM

I haven't seen this TR6 Byron. Thanks for posting this, as always like to see photos of others ideas. Nice! I'm going to need a roll bar for sure!.


BlownMGB-V8
Jim Blackwood
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Re: TR6 With BMW 325i Engine
Posted by: BlownMGB-V8
Date: January 12, 2012 05:48PM

German engine in a British sports car? That's just SO wrong.

JB


DC Townsend
David Townsend
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Re: TR6 With BMW 325i Engine
Posted by: DC Townsend
Date: January 12, 2012 07:22PM

Guess we shouldn't be sayin' anything about the new Mini. Eh, Jim?


BlownMGB-V8
Jim Blackwood
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Re: TR6 With BMW 325i Engine
Posted by: BlownMGB-V8
Date: January 12, 2012 07:59PM

Oh, you can say anything you like of course, I pretty much do. Probably should have put a "winky" on that post though. Aren't afterthoughts a B****?

The BMW Mini? That's a German car. Nothing British about it.

JB


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Re: TR6 With BMW 325i Engine
Posted by: BWA
Date: January 12, 2012 08:45PM

Jim I agree with you that the new Mini is not British. The cool thing about this website is that nothing is sacred. The first idol that gets smashed is that British sportscars are not sacred and can be greatly improved with newer drivetrains.
I know hotrodders pride themselves with being iconoclastic. The truth of the matter is that they create their own idols and rules about how things should be done. I read Hotrod magazine online and I get a real chuckle about some of the cars they do articles on, like how about a 1967 Camaro with a turbocharged Toyota Supra engine in it, the "purists" howled about it. Another one was an LS engine in a Fox Bodied Mustang this ticked off the "purists" also.
The truth of the matter it doesn't really matter what kind of engine you put in a car as long as it works and is properly engineered, this is what makes hotrodding so cool. In some ways I am kind of like a purist in how a car should look and I can be quite opinionated about it, then I remind myself that not everyone shares my views on these things.
Please do not take this the wrong way I have a lot of respect for you and your creativity and skills.
Have a great day.
Cheers
Byron


Bill Young
Bill Young
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Re: TR6 With BMW 325i Engine
Posted by: Bill Young
Date: January 12, 2012 08:55PM

Common Jim, the British have borrowed German engines for their sports cars before, remember the AC Ace Bristol. That engine was a BMW design that the British got as war reparations after WWII. Of course it took Shelby to drop an American V8 into the car to really wake it up.



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Jim Blackwood
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Re: TR6 With BMW 325i Engine
Posted by: BlownMGB-V8
Date: January 12, 2012 10:53PM

You know me Bill, always willing to stir things up. Actually over the decades the Germans have made some damned fine engines. Odds are it pisses them off to see them put into British cars. But hey, I've got a "better" idea. Put a German engine in a French car! Or better still, a Russian car!

Now in this new modern era, the Japanese make some of the finest engines on the planet, and they make some sweet V8s too. Bears looking into I think, and sometime before too long I'll be test fitting a 1UZ into an MGB just to see what it'd take to match 'em up before the engine goes in Dan's TR-7. EGAD!! A Japanese engine in a British car?!!? That's just so VERY wrong!

Yeah! Let's DO it!!

JB


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Fred Key
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Re: TR6 With BMW 325i Engine
Posted by: DiDueColpi
Date: January 13, 2012 03:22AM

Who's going to accept responsibility for the oil leak?


BlownMGB-V8
Jim Blackwood
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Re: TR6 With BMW 325i Engine
Posted by: BlownMGB-V8
Date: January 13, 2012 10:05AM

That'd be from the differential. And the shocks. And the carbs ... no wait, we got rid of the SUs.

Jim


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Carl Floyd
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Re: TR6 With BMW 325i Engine
Posted by: MGBV8
Date: January 20, 2012 07:24PM

Nice swap. I'd drive it. No worse than putting a Pinto motor in a TR6! ;)


roverman
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Re: TR6 With BMW 325i Engine
Posted by: roverman
Date: January 20, 2012 10:49PM

Tut-tut, at least Jensen Healey and Mother Mopar are somewhat related,(Interceptor with bbm). Yea I know-who cares ? roverman that's who.....


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Carl Floyd
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Re: TR6 With BMW 325i Engine
Posted by: MGBV8
Date: January 21, 2012 12:15AM

Yeah, they are what, second cousins? :)


Lincoln
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Re: TR6 With BMW 325i Engine
Posted by: Lincoln
Date: January 21, 2012 08:40AM

Nice swap. I keep looking for an adapter to mate an Audi 4.2 V8 to a T-56 myself. It is nice to see people thinking outside of the box.


xkman
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Re: TR6 With BMW 325i Engine
Posted by: xkman
Date: January 31, 2012 09:38PM

Somehow that doesn't seem like much of an upgrade. BMW's are horsepower engines versus the torque monsters the British were known for (excluding things like the coventry climax and Ford twin cam). I would think the 3.5l big six BMW motor would be a better choice. But, what I love about this group is the openminded attitude. So, this conversion is wonderful too.



alana
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Re: TR6 With BMW 325i Engine
Posted by: alana
Date: February 01, 2012 09:59PM

There are a few bigger pictures here

[tr250v8.com]
[tr250v8.com]
[tr250v8.com]
[tr250v8.com]

The attraction iirc was that the engine was cheap, offered a hefty upgrade from stock and fit without cutting.
Interior isn't to my taste, but then it isn't my car. The conversion is done to a very nice standard if you see it in the flesh.


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