Saturday, November 05, 2005

Development thoughts

The TR7 is now with my brother for bodywork and painting.

Basically it will come back next year with a steel roof (as in, goodbye sunroof), some tidying of a few rusty bits including nearside door bottom and the rear deck.

It will also be in the original works colour scheme so should look great.

I have also ordered a "Whiteline" strutbrace. This is on the recommendation of a knowledgable TR7 mate and it is made by Whiteline engineering in Australia but supplied via Demon Tweeks.

I am currently getting quotes for roll cages and aim to have a cage fitted to by next spring.

A roll cage and a strut brace should stiffen the car up some more as well as being necessary for rallying (the roll cage).

Then I need to sort out the oil leak via the front bearing seal which I am advised can be done "in situ". I could have gone for the Sprint engine but if I can fix the oil leak I would rather keep to my schedule and stick with the TR7 2 litre 8 valve whilst development continues.

Oh, and on the 10CR brake vibrations returned so my mate Kevin will be looking at some more machining of the brake adaptors as he was never entirely happy with them.

Then it's just a case of a fair bit of tidying up wiring and putting in new switches, relays etc.

Not much to do then!

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