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PHUQ wrote:When you get back from Specsavers, read the post above yours Kev

New one on me, they look good. Listed under "Modern Plates" on the website by the way - towards the bottom of the page.

Haha, don't joke about glasses Matt, I do need them as I'm sure balmy will tell you! thanks for stating the obvious!! MATE!!.....


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fruity wrote:

PHUQ wrote:When you get back from Specsavers, read the post above yours Kev

New one on me, they look good. Listed under "Modern Plates" on the website by the way - towards the bottom of the page.

Haha, don't joke about glasses Matt, I do need them as I'm sure balmy will tell you! thanks for stating the obvious!! MATE!!.....

Just got new reading glasses from Specsavers - Prost frames , perhaps I should gone for Mansell . No Morris, Maurice or Marina options .

Had a surprise at work yesterday, a group from the Marlin Owner's Club turned up! They regularly have weekend runs together and had come from all over the country. Very friendly bunch!

This one is running a Rover V8



The couple who own this one know the whereabouts of the J reg Marlin I have been trying to trace, turns out it was them who converted the car! They have offered to send me some photos of it before and after

This one was still sporting Marina front suspension but has recently been fitted with an Alfa Romeo engine

Have you checked to make sure there is nothing missing off your Coupe?


Chris

Started contemplating a very misguided conversion from twin 1-1/2" HS4's to twin 1-3/4" Stromberg 175's (yes, I know picture only shows one, other was still connected to the TR6 intake at that point). See my other post:
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And these pictures from our team Facebook page:




Thoughts and comments (questioning my sanity is appropriate here...)

Jamie

BTW, the head is a junk one, it's cracked, so I'm just using it to hold the intake manifold at the right angle.

You can buy twin 1.75" SUs on an ally manifold all ready to go, why go for Stroms?


Chris

My experience of strombergs on my wife's Rapier says avoid them if you can!!! Su's much easier and more reliable.

Simply put, money. #1, I'm on a pretty low budget, have strombergs and time, and like a challenge. #2, the regulations for the series are based on how much money you spend (take a look, 24hoursoflemons.com) and the strombergs were free...SU HS6's are hard to find over here as many TR owners swap them out. Also, manifolds are not readily available over here at any reasonable price...

I have just read your other post, that's a really low budget. So a bored out MGB inlet manifold and internally tapered adaptor plates between the SU manifold and the Stroms to get the bolt spacing correct.


Chris

I had that cold feeling when you start poking something with a sharp stick and bits disintegrate.... suffice to say the Ital is now very holey, there is a nice pile of etch primered 'bits' in the garage ready to be stuck back on with the hot stick and I'm tempted by an MGF round the corner for not much cash.....

Ruddy welder has ceased to function now...

MarinaCoupe wrote:I have just read your other post, that's a really low budget. So a bored out MGB inlet manifold and internally tapered adaptor plates between the SU manifold and the Stroms to get the bolt spacing correct.


Chris

Yup, that's about it. And in steel, too...cheaper and I can plasma cut and weld it as opposed to Aluminum...

Drove 1/2 the way to the Nats stopping over in lincoln then 2d part tomorrow all ready for the weekend of Marinas at the Nats, the saloon performed great again didn'tmiss abeat and only used less than 1/4 tank of petrol and covered 114 miles. See ya'll at the weekend looking forward to catching up eamonn

Busy but productive day today. A few issues to overcome (related to using Maestro bits mostly, we tried to use as much as we could but in the end resorted to a new waterpump & using a Marina thermostat housing), and a gearbox that didn't want to talk to the engine (and I bought an alignment tool and everything- forgetting that there was a tailor- made one in the spare room, otherwise known as a spare input shaft ) but all looking good- just the alternator to sort, there's an extra spacer on there but I've a spare Marina one somewhere to cannibalise, and work out what we're doing in terms of throttle, choke cable etc.







Guess what tomorrow's plan is well, hopefully anyway...

MOT?