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Its a bit late to tell you now Pel, theres a place in Berko that does chrome powder coating, you could have got the spokes done in chrome

katanaman wrote:

ppyvabw wrote:Out of interest, are widened steelies legal for road use?

No they aren't but if they are finished off properly who would know until the tyre is off.

Banded steels have never been Illegal, and are not today, all came bad publicity in the 60s,

Yon need to get on here, plenty of people going banded steels.

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If you want to be fussy about the timing, you can get, or shall I say you could get offset keys, these allowed you to dial the timing into where you want,

TBs every time, My 300hp 3.9 would return 35mpg on a run and run mid 12s on the strip then drive home with 35mpg

Compression ratio is dependant on cam overlap. I was running nearly 14;1cr ststic, but with the cam I was running it worked out about 11;1 dynamic,

Throttle bodies and a Good ECU, especially as you are running NOS, you would have to go over to a sniper type system if you go that way, Im a Emerald ECU Convert, especially as the later M3Dk has the ability to store 3 maps which could be handy for you, a separate map for mud plugging, one for fast ...

Changed the plugs????

Ahh the delights of the Triumph IRS, I hope you have a spare diff, or change the lot using subuaru diff assy and custom shafts,

The tilt is fine you can run engines at some crazy angles if needed, but, what you do need to take into account is the diff flange has to be a similar angle to the tailshaft flange to keep everything in Phase, it is sometimes desirable to run the dif slightly "nose"up so the flange is in phase when ...

Rover engines are well balanced from the factory, rods often go oval from fitting aftermarket rod bolts, I ran my engine on RS supplied Clevelites, often banging off 7.5k without a problem, if you want to use revs, I would suggest using ARP mains studs as extend hi revs do tend to make the caps walk...

I got through 2 T5's on my twin turbo RV8. They didn't break but just got very whiney after about 5000 miles but they weren't new when fitted. I've now changed to a new T56 and hoping for a longer life. However I don't like the gearshift as it's a bit agricultural to say the least. I've tried diffe...

Trouble with compromises, they hurt future plans, as they tend to restrict things or need changing when upgrading, when, if done right in the first place thats not the case,
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A bit of inspiration for you to get the juices flowing......

many smiths instruments are easily interchangable, you may well find the internals of a sdi tach will bolt right into the GT6 case, sometimes without mods to the can, I have done plenty over the years, all you have to watch is the sweep of the tach against the triumph tach, they need to be the same,...