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[zelrik]

Hello everyone

I have just joined Sideways, as I found your forum while Googling for Triumph PI & Megasquirt.

I live in Melbourne Australia & am close to retirement.

Although I dont have a small chassis triumph, one of my retirement projects is rebirthing an ex US TR6
which I had in storage for 20+ years.

I am doing this as I had a few sedan PI 2.5s in my younger days (when we could
drive them fast ) and I am quite familiar with Triumphs & the lucas &
newer FI systems. I am a fan of M/S but havent done a conversion yet.
The TR6 will be my first.

You all seem to be a very capable and practical group of people
and I hope I can contribute something from my experience to your forum.

My other car interests are a 3 wheeler Morgan (passive restoration - very passive!);
family has Citroens (L15 & DS recently sold ) & Saabs (modern)
I have 2 Nissans - an Infiniti G37 (Skyline) and an Elgrand diesel van (fantasticly useful!)
And I also enjoy my 2 VeloSolex mopeds!!!

Apologies in advance if I ask too many nooob questions.
Peter from Melbourne

[Nick Jones]

Welcome Peter - good to see you here . Hope you can see the pictures now?

Cheers

Nick

[GT6MK3]

Whoohoo, that makes two of us!

Welcome Peter. It's a fun community, and a fabulous resource!

Don't forget to plug in your location on the Member Map.

Craig

[Hurricane1500]

Gooday and welcome

[mattius]

Welcome, post pics of the morgan sometime, i love them.

[elsieolly]

welcome Peter
Nice to give Craig more moral support from Down under

[Triumph-V8]

Hi Peter,
feeling homesick after reading where are you writing from!!!!
Had my best vacation ever when spending 4 weeks in Australia
starting in a hotel close to the old wooden roller coaster in St Kilda!
Then 12 apostels and at last the blue mountains with bathurst!

Now I have to learn that there are also people with Triumphs!
Should have joined this 5 years earlier!

best regards from Germany
Andreas

[zelrik]

Triumph-V8, on 18 November 2011 - 10:48 AM, said:

Hi Peter,
feeling homesick after reading where are you writing from!!!!
Had my best vacation ever when spending 4 weeks in Australia
starting in a hotel close to the old wooden roller coaster in St Kilda!
Then 12 apostels and at last the blue mountains with bathurst!

Now I have to learn that there are also people with Triumphs!
Should have joined this 5 years earlier!

best regards from Germany
Andreas

Hi Andreas
I am very pleased you enjoyed yourself in Melbourne and on the Great Ocean Road and Blue Mountains.
Many years ago in 1970s my girlfriend and I hitch hiked (auto-stop??) through Germany and the people were very very kind by picking us up and giving us food and beds.
Yours is a lovely country too with pretty forests.
When I soon retire I want to wander about in Germany and Sweden, just doing my own thing visiting sights like Nürburgring without deadlines!

Is your new USA TR6 the red one with wire wheels (or is that the V8)?
My TR6 is a red 73 model ex US from LA. I converted it to RHD.

Craig is helping me by making the Fuel rail with those Spacers!!
I am curious about the M/S conversion that keeps the 6 throttle butterflys- as most conversions use one big throttle body.
How does that car perform? Is it easy to tune?

Kind Regards
Peter in Melbourne

[Triumph-V8]

Hi Peter,
the red one in the picture
is the stock 6 cylinder,
the blue is a 5 litre Rover built up
with parts from Real Steel in GB.

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This is the engine.

The V8 has Megasquirt, too,
but an old MS1.
There are two butterflies in use that act
staging one after the other
to make the car easier to drive.
I welded two plenum halves of the Rover together
as I do not have to feed the air through a single flapper measurement unit.

The MS2 with the 6 butterflies for the 6 cylinder are the new project.
Some reasons for keeping 6 butterflies:
First the car has them as a PI version from beginning,
second the engines with wilder cams use this arrangement
for more power on the low end
and better idle,
third is that the whole thing looks more like stock
and keeps things friendly to get it street legal.

Disadvantage is you have to figure out the poti for the throttle
and for this need a new throttle spindle.

Also I will migrate to MS2 with 3.0 board.
Up to now the engine did not turn.
I am looking for a startup msq-file for this version
and have to do smaller works like powdercoating
the inletbox and establishing throttle linkage.

As we are unlucky here and have winter
I will take my time and finish in 2 month.

Hopefully tuning of MS2 will then be as easy as it was with MS1.
My girlfriend got the laptop during travel and moves the red cross after the green dot
and keys "Q" or "W" in to keep the displayed Lambda in range.
I only had to drive and later to store the data.
Life can be very easy :-)

By the way: What about retiring after we finished all the work and find a nice farm
with a big sheed near the Whitsunday Islands and play around with the Triumphs and a Holden Clubsport R8?
Good idea, isn't it?????