Happy Ending

Hi all,
Well not blogged for some time... Mainly because life has been busy, but that is not to say that nothing has been going on with the TR6 project. In fact loads have happened. By the end of February I had competed rebuilding the chassis (see below).

And then it was a simple matter of rolling it under the body

And then just lowering the body. This time I used my engine crane to lower the body. I attaced it via the seatbelt mounts at the rear and the body to chassis mounts at the front.

And after some slight adjustment the car was back together

Everything pretty much lined up OK with just some very minor adjustments to two of the chassis mounts. I have to say it was nice to see everything back where it should be.

The rest of the reassembly, as they say in the Haynes manual, is just the reverse of dissassembly. However I did treat myself to some new wheels :-)

So over all the process, which was started in August 2014 was completed in March 2015, working only weekends and the odd evening.. Not bad really.
And the question then is.... Am I happy? Well I drove the car to the Spa Classic in Belgium, A 1000 mile weekend with a few laps of the GP circuit thrown in for fun.

Amazingly after the laps every vital sign of the car was resolutely in the middle of the range.

 The car behaved reasonably well with only 3 issues.
1) The rear telescopic shock mounts came loose and needed to be tightened a couple of times (now sorted with the use of a couple of nylocks.
2) One of the injectors failed (see below)

3) The car would idle no lower than 1300 rpm (hopefully to be sorted this winter with a new set of recon throttle bodies.

Dynamically the car seems good and the new cam makes the engine much smoother. Power seems pretty good and we returned over 30 mpg on the run. So over all worth it!