We drove down to north London on the weds with our good mates Tim &Lou with their very nice mk3 GT6, and met up with them loony northerners from, er, Up't North!
Had a great night of food drink and Banter! Cheers Mike C and Gang!
Arrived at the start in plenty of time, weather a bit mizzley, but ok, Well we (Tim) were Too Excited really to notice the weather!
fits there!
Fancy that! 60odd Triumphs being on the same Ferry!! :)
Not sure where this is, But it aint Holland !!
Bumped into MikeyB and his Hastily prepared Staag ! looked and sounded good Mikey!
Top of St.Gottard , I think !
Yes! before you ask! We Did Have the Matt Munro CD with us again !! Stelvio, Top! 9000ft ish.
One of my Xmas pressies was a megajolt lite V4 from the States! (thanks Jules!)
This was the final piece in the jigsaw of parts I had gathered the previous year.
Basically you need, Ford 6cyl coilpack, EDIS6 module, Crank sensor, Trigger wheel, and tubing and fitting to put a Vacum(for MAPsensor) line into inlet manifold.
some pics of install........
Coilpack fitting next to Battery
machined a recess on real of trigger wheel
drilled 4 holes and bolted wheel to front pulley fan spacer
made a bracket to hold crank sensor
.fitting front pulley and crank sensor
ticking over .finished front bits .
making and fitting plug leads
drilled and tapped manifold for MAP take offs.
Tidying plug leads etc. First start up! Its Alive !
Trying out ignition maps on megajolt software, laptop on passenger seat!!.
Had great help and support from the chaps on CT forum, helping me through the install and loading the software and 'Maps' onto laptop. Its now running nicely on Megajolt power, having been around Europe on the Club Triumph 10 Countries Run, ! It didnt miss a beat !
Had new rear wing fitted after wheel stud breakage incident! ( now upgraded to 7/16 studs)
damage repairs...
Shiny !! ..
new pass door too!
done a couple of track days with Club Triumph! (the club that does! )
Cadwell park
Oulton Park..
Prescott Hill Standard Triumph Day...
a few pics of Golf Rad install..
After trying the Honda Rad, the Car was'nt keen on it! so Tried a Golf gti mk2 Rad, with Astra header bottle. It likes this, nice 'cheap' install, no body or chassis mods either! ;)
Also, changed the worn out rotoflex rear end(fitted by previous owners) and now running spit 1500 rear swingspring/long shafts/3.63 diff.....
Since having rear wing fitted and painted, decided to leave rear bumpers off, Prefer the look of Bumperless !
Not managed to actually do the RBRR yet, but have done some marshalling at the Oswestry/Gledrid stop, Had a Great time signing in all the weary eyed Zombie Triumphists!! even baked cakes for em ;-)
Yes its been a while, but now that I've remembered I started a Blog some time ago, I will try to update it from time to time and bring up to speed the current state/spec of my GT6.
Here's a pic of one of the latest mods that's been fitted.
