josh817 Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 Dad finished up a motor he was building for a friend. It was built with the intention of a hot street street motor and such in mind. -ported and polished head -performance cam -lightened, balanced, polished, and shot peened rods -.040" over bore -10:1 compression -teflon piston skirts, ceramic coated tops -glyptal crank case -crank scraper -performance lifters -lightened flywheel -headers -fuel injection Should be a blast! I love these crazy builds! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_furious Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 Okay, I'll bite...what's the block? Looks like a GM timing cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh817 Posted August 21, 2009 Author Share Posted August 21, 2009 Ah Triumph Spitfire 1300. Dads the Triumph Guru here in the DFW area and then I just work with him at the shop. I would like to get more Datsun stuff, right now I'm doing a Roadster 2000 motor but once I'm done with that i'm out of projects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_furious Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 Heh, shows what I know. I was WAY off. Neat! What sort of EFI? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh817 Posted August 21, 2009 Author Share Posted August 21, 2009 I'm not sure yet. The guy we did it for is making it complicated it seems. He has 2 Spitfires, one has a motor and the other has just been painted and is being restored. We're taking the running motor from the first car, taking it apart and rebuilding it, putting it in the 2nd car. Then we take this crazy motor and put it in the first car. We're going to break the motor in with a weber dgv and then do the efi, of which I don't even know. Triumph made some efi and stuff but I would think that we're going to install TWM ITB's or something. We use to install that setup on Super 7's and stuff so Dad is familiar with the system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG58 Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Ah the glorious world of British cars. Ten hours of work per hour of driving. Not including tea time. Though I like that setup more, having the sump of the engine containing the gearbox like my mini is a bit un-nerving... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh817 Posted August 22, 2009 Author Share Posted August 22, 2009 Ah the glorious world of British cars. Ten hours of work per hour of driving. Not including tea time. Though I like that setup more, having the sump of the engine containing the gearbox like my mini is a bit un-nerving... Shared oil gottah love it! One goes out they all go out! We actually have a mini coming in next week needing a suspension rebuild. But in all honesty, a large portion of the shops business is from returning customers, but not from broken stuff. Every motor we build is warrantied IF we buy the parts. There have been two instances that I can think of when a customer get screwed because they wanted to save money on parts. One was a customer who bought everything and skimped on the oil pump. We currently have a customer who thinks he's some big shot and knows everything. Original motor, never been rebuilt, needs a .020" over bore, but he doesn't want to buy new pistons because it will let the motor spin up better... >_< doah! And I wouldn't criticize the man but when I showed him my Z he gave me a lecture about stuff that never existed, and then lectured me how our properly built N/A L6's could beat a V8 in a drag race because they can rev higher... Those sort of people bother me big time, especially when they combine their absolute knowledge with building a worn out brand new motor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG58 Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Shared oil gottah love it! One goes out they all go out! We actually have a mini coming in next week needing a suspension rebuild. Dear lord. I HATE rubber cones. With a passion. I want to find Alex Issogonis's grave and defile it for that little engineering decision. And Yeah, I get that alot, I built an A+ for a guy who wanted to spin a complete 3 main stroker 8500 without a main strap and with stock cooper s rods. He's older than me so he obviously knows better. I've seen what happens when a Mini rod decides it wants to vacation with 2nd gear... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh817 Posted August 22, 2009 Author Share Posted August 22, 2009 I don't know any of the mini problems, I just know that the Spitfires had an oiling issue. Came about when they went from the 1300 to the 1500, went with big journals I think but never opened up the oil galleys and such for more oil.. #3 rod likes to leave the show early too. Its so common it takes more than two hands to count the times we've seen it happen. So all in all they have a small journal and a big journal, we take all the small journals we can find. Otherwise if you use a big journal you have to open up the oil holes and galleys on the block. Oh and they also snap axles too. dad broke two sets until he finally said ehhhh no. Summers Brothers now sells better axles however little did I know that Dad gave them the design. He worked with them to create the axles and initially sold a ton especially to the guys in England but once everyone had a set business slowed down and it wasn't worth it to sell on his own so he handed the design over to them and now they sell it. Weird. BUT they take FOREVER to actually make and ship them, it was ridiculous. Dad: Guy who has a problem: Doesn't look like the hub broke off the axle as it usually does because I think I see the drum brakes still on there BUT thats the general idea of what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaparral2f Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 Is that the front of an old USAC midget I see in the back ground in that last picture? Who built it? We had an Offy powered, Kurtis back in the day. Our shop had a huge dirt truck parking lot, and we'ed take it out and hot lap it around the lot. There isn't any thing as sweet sounding as an Offenhauser when its wound up tight. Its amazing how often I've sold something I should have kept forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh817 Posted August 23, 2009 Author Share Posted August 23, 2009 Is that the front of an old USAC midget I see in the back ground in that last picture? Who built it? We had an Offy powered, Kurtis back in the day. Our shop had a huge dirt truck parking lot, and we'ed take it out and hot lap it around the lot. There isn't any thing as sweet sounding as an Offenhauser when its wound up tight. Its amazing how often I've sold something I should have kept forever. Indeed! I think its an old Kurtis. 1939 midget, runs a Ford flat head V8 60. We can't afford an Offy! The car was a barn find so everything is original on it. The car has an in/out box with whatever rear end but also came with 4 v8's a 3 speed model t tranny or something like that and then a Haliburton quick change rear end. Ebay barn find, $7000 . Money gets the best of us though. In dire needs, the thought of selling the car lingers around. I don't think Dad can bring himself to sell it though because the car use to run up in the northeast... Dad is from New Jersey, so when Grandpa raced they went to all the northeastern tracks and apparently this car ran with my grandpa plus we have all these old black and white photos of them sliding through the dirt and we have the old logs and everything. My grandpa Poppy has some crazy stories though.... Don't get him started on the topic if you don't have a good hour or two to spare. First thing he asked Dad when we told him was "does it have a floor?" "yah..." "mine didn't, you rested your feet on a bar" "does it have a head rest?" "yah..." "mine didn't, you ducked when you rolled" haha But yah anyway, car still has the handbrake, we bought a mechanical hand fuel pump but will probably run an electric, all sorts of stuff. Poppy came down to Texas for my sisters wedding so somewhere around he is a photo of him sitting in the car. His old helmet is like paper mache.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaparral2f Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 Great find. Try to hang onto it. I'll see if there are any pics or ours around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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