Sprint power at last

200 miles in BRP today down to the Triumph event at Crich tramway museum.

Keeping to a maximum 4500 revs the car was just fine - by 'eck it's got some go now.

Fettling is needed of course but La Carrera here we come.

I should point out I was in the company of messrs Flexney and Darbyshire all day, including joining them for a meal in a curry house in Morley to finish off.

Great day chaps, thanks for the bacon rolls, the cornish pastie and Old Speckled Hen at lunchtime was good too. Sounds like a gastronimic event doesn't it?

Still, the said gents got up to some antics on a tram and here is the evidence.

Flying the flag or hanging the banner for Club Triumph in Crich, Derbyshire not Vienna, Austria!

That's better - at least for now!

Ace tuner Steve has made a huge difference to BRP.

I did manage to get it running myself but Steve spotted that the advance/retard mechanism wasn't working so we swapped in a spare dizzy.

Then work on the carb jets and linkages and a short test drive proved the car is the best it's ever been.

Combined with me re-torqueing the head I feel much more confident about it all.

But - confidence will grow with more miles and lots of "tidying" done.

Crich tomorrow though - hopefully in BRP so see you at breckie Burnerboy!

That just sums it up

Fed up with the car not co-operating I said I would go down the pub as part of the "3 Amigos" team.

So, we arrived (without sombreros, ponchos and moustaches on this occasion) to find the quiz was off this week as the quizmaster was ill.


Yup - that just sums it up

It's at times like these ........

I have ordered a new exhaust manifold gasket and a timing disc so that I can cure the blowing from the exhaust manifold and be ready if necessary to "time the cam in" which sounds like another voyage of discovery for me.

I also noticed the vacuum pipe had come adrift so I put that back as after all, it certainly won't have been helping.

Having had a little time to reflect I have also re-torqued the cylinder head tonight after advice from friends on the Club Triumph forum.

I then confidently turned the key to fire the car up and, of course, it rewarded me by refusing to start! Now it won't run at all.

It is at times like these that the only sensible thing to do is to go to the local hostelry in my role as part of the "3 Amigos" pub quiz team and forget about TR7s for a while.

Gorgeous but not happy

Gorgeous but not happy - that's BRP for certain.

I have been helping out on Club Triumph's Historic Counties Run by putting up a code board outside Harewood Hill Climb course.

This was a great reason to give BRP a 70 mile run but it was not at all happy, misfiring etc although occasionally I got a glimpse of what a Sprint engine can do.

I altered the timing by moving the distributor a few times but never got it right and then on the way back the temperature went way high. I had to stop and leave the bonnet up for 10 minutes then drive with the heater blower on as well as the electric rad fan.

Finally got the car home but I'll be using the Audi tomorrow to fetch the code board back!

By 'eck BRP is gorgeous

No point to this post other than to day how great my car looks - arrogant I know but it just struck me as I came out to it tonight from the Pendle and Pennine meeting.

Here it is under the new Club gazebo - this could be the shape of things to come (pun intended) - it looks like a service area on the Manx rally.

Shame it's a bit dark tho.

So far so good

What do you do when you have been away from home on business, finally get back at 8.45PM having driven 365 miles?

Well you take your TR7 16V out for a test run obviously!

Just 8 miles on the "test track" for now but oil pressures 40PSI+, temperature gauge never over 1/4, volts up and the fuel gauge working again.

The suspension feels fine and the brakes are OK - I don't want to push my luck too far tho as the wheels on tha car at the moment have 12 year old Pirellis on at the back and a set of Barum (of all things) on the front.

But what about the engine? Well it shows every sign of one that needs tuning - dieing at junctions, hesitating etc and blowing by the exhaust manifold (so new gasket needed) but, but,

It revs to 6000 and you can just feel it has lots to offer.

So, all in all - nicely does it and we should be on the right track