Monday 26 August 2013

New Exhaust

Finally decided to get cracking on the new Exhaust system and Stage 1 kit,
this entails an uprated exhaust for better air flow out the engine, and due to the manifold change will require a new inlet manifold and carb needle profiling to suit the new engine set up.

New exhaust purchased from Old Skool Minis (http://www.oldskoolminis.co.uk) based near me in Birmingham. RC40 back box with twin downpipes and a 2 to 1 link pipe and y piece. All stainless steel.

After removal of the previous exhaust I found that a larger back box had been put on the car (possibly to provide better sound) but it provided no real performance gains. (The widening of the system can be seen shortly after the single down pipe on the old system.
Carb in need of some cleaning































A shiny carb set up.



All back in place












Tuesday 13 August 2013

Waking up Dad



After the TR being off the road for many moons, managing to start it was definitely worth waking my Dad up for, the alarm clock? 6 cylinders and a twin exhaust system...

Started!



After many days confusion, the car has started! Feeling very foolish that the metering unit was on 360 degrees out of sync, must have made some silly miscalculation about where the engine was...

Feeling my cars disloyalty, completely reluctant to start when I tried, Angus' has a few goes and it fires up... (I must have warmed it up for him)