Triumph Sports Cars

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

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boomran
Randall Rothgeb

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Registered:
07/31/2009 09:37PM

Main British Car:
Randall's TR6 by Ford, Chevy, Nissan, and Triumph
Posted by: boomran
Date: June 28, 2012 02:14PM

Owner: Randall Rothgeb
City: Vancouver Washington (Moving form Austin Texas)
Car Model: TR6
Engine: LT1

Cooling: TBD

Exhaust: TBD

Transmission: T56 6 speed

Rear Axle: 300ZX

Front Susp.: TBD

Rear Susp.: 300ZX

Brakes:
(master)
(front)
(rear) 300 ZX

Wheels/Tires: Ford Mustang

Body Mods: As little as possible

Interior: Raw

Electrical:Non existant at this point

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Just had to see what it was going to look like.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/28/2012 02:20PM by boomran.


BWA


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Registered:
04/13/2010 08:13PM

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Re: Randall's TR6 by Ford, Chevy, Nissan, and Triumph
Posted by: BWA
Date: June 28, 2012 04:07PM

Randall welcome to the forum! I am glad you are a TR6 guy as we need more TR guys to balance out the preponderance of MGB guys!! I do take my hat off in respect to all the MGB guys so I mean no animosity whatsoever!!
You project looks really interesting and hopefully it will be on the road soon. Your rear suspension looks quite cool. IMHO you need to look at reinforcing the frame at the rear as the weakest part of the TR6 frame is the bottleneck just in front of the differential. It is in this area where the frame will twist.
Looking forward to hearing from you often and seeing lots of pictures.

Cheers
Byron


tr6turbo
Dale Knapke
Sidney, Ohio
(169 posts)

Registered:
08/24/2008 09:44PM

Main British Car:
1972 Triumph TR6 Ford 2300, 4 Cyl Turbo

Re: Randall's TR6 by Ford, Chevy, Nissan, and Triumph
Posted by: tr6turbo
Date: June 28, 2012 05:44PM

I am with Byron. We need more TR6 guys. I like the work you have completed so far. It looks to be well thought out.

Dale
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atomic
Tim Wietlispach
Mt Prospect, IL
(1 posts)

Registered:
09/17/2010 09:54AM

Main British Car:
1976 TR6 Stock, for now

Re: Randall's TR6 by Ford, Chevy, Nissan, and Triumph
Posted by: atomic
Date: June 29, 2012 11:49AM

I'm excited about this build thread, Randall!

I'd like to hear more about the 300zx rear suspension and how you modified the frame/susp to fit. Were you able to use the stock 300 rear subframe welded to the TR's frame (with mods to the TR frame of course)?


boomran
Randall Rothgeb

(2 posts)

Registered:
07/31/2009 09:37PM

Main British Car:
Re: Randall's TR6 by Ford, Chevy, Nissan, and Triumph
Posted by: boomran
Date: July 03, 2012 01:54PM

I had to narrow the 300zx rear end by 12 inches. All of the control arms are adjustable tubular stock replacements. My intention is to get as close as I can to symetric and adjust any differences with the added adjustability I gained with the control arms. I obviously had to modify the frame a lot. I added gussets at all of the intersections and have continued to box all of the frame after modifications. In addition I have fabricated a roll bar and door struts to help add rigidity to the body/ frame combo.


Med72
Art Medrano
Austin, Tx
(52 posts)

Registered:
01/31/2012 09:25PM

Main British Car:
1972 Triumph TR6 GM 350

Re: Randall's TR6 by Ford, Chevy, Nissan, and Triumph
Posted by: Med72
Date: January 03, 2013 04:15PM

Randall

Do you have any addtl photos of your IRS? I am doing the same setup. I was going with a Ford 9" but decided to use a R200 from a 1990 300zx instead. When I purchased the rear end the guy threw in the IRS. So I changed directions and I am now going with a IRS. I have been trying to figure out the deminsions. I trying to decide whether to use Goodparts CV axles or fab something else. I would like to talk to you about the subframe setup and other items like the brakes hubs ..etc

Thanks

Art


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