Cowboy Ray's on the road

[TR6-6SPD]

Ray has his TRZ06 on the road. Congratulations! The car looks great and I bet it's exciting to drive.

Here are the links to his project journal:
Part #1: http://forum.britishv8.org/read.php?13,20458
Part #2: http://forum.britishv8.org/read.php?13,28217


What do you say Ray, any trouble lighting up the tires on that puppy?
Can you supply us with a video to share the exhaust sound?

[BWA]

Ray your car looks awesome!!  It must feel pretty good to be able to drive that beast.  I noticed that when you bought the car it had a hardtop; do you plan on using it?  I think that it would look pretty cool with the hardtop done in red with the racing stripe.
Your TR6 definitely captures the look of those IMSA race cars with the wide flares, racing stripes , and the roll cage.

Cheers
Byron

[cowboyra]

Ken
To tell the truth I haven't got on it yet. I'm tuning with hp tuners and I'm
having a little trouble creating a PID to log my WOT. Just watching my
afr gauge it goes to 15:1 when I start to get on it. I richened that area up
3% and hopefully this new PID works. The exhaust goes from very mellow
at cruise to deafening over 3500. I'll try to get a video soon.

[dwtr6v8]

I'll say it again Ray, you have some mad skills! Congrats! Save a horse, ride a Cowboy!

[Dan B]

It looks a little like your car, Don.

[Med72]

Ray:

Wow ...this beast of yours is great inspiration for us with TR6 projects still a long way until completion.  How long did it take you from start to finish?

Like Bryon.. I think that beast would look great with the hard top on.  The car looks awesome now.  The hard top adds a coach-coupe flavor to the car.

Anyway GREAT job!

Art

[cowboyra]

Well thanks again guys for the compliments. I've been at it 3 1/2 years and still have to do the interior.
I bought a sewing machine and I'm gonna have a go at it. I did some WOT maf tuning the other day and
that was rather exhilarating. it does about 100 in 3rd. It goes down the road straight as an arrow but
just breath on the wheel and your changing lanes. Brakes are awesome till I stop. I may have to put
an electric vacuum pump inline. I'll hold off on that till I get the idle 100% tuned.

Keep building em, they do get finished sooner or later.

[MGBV8]

Yeehaw!!!

[rampant racing]

absolutely fantastic ray! great job and you are an inspiration to everyone who ever picked up a wrench to work on there car. after I get the mustang sorted out I will be back on my spitfire and all I can say sir is I will be happy if it turns out half as good as yours did. once again great job ray!!

[88v8]

That's quite a car.

Electric brake vacuum pump... yes, I had to put one on my TR6 because the cam only makes 7" of vacuum at idle. It's controlled via a vacuum switch that knocks it off at about 18".
At the risk of stating the obvious, put a non-return valve between the pump and the inlet manifold, otherwise it will suck the mixture out of the engine.

Ivor

[Phil Crawford]

Ray you have done yourself proud. It is something to be proud of and you did it yourself. Sorry about the loss of your dog. A good dog is hard to come by. I have a friend who retired and loved to drive everywhere and anywhere at the drop of the hat. I told him he needed to get himself a good dog to travel with.  He thought a minute and said he didn't want a dog because he could throw a woman out but couldn't do that to a good dog.  Hope you have fun driving it.
Phil

[theonlyiceman53]

WOW, that is quite a car! Very, Very impressive!  Thank you for posting!
Bill

[74ls1tr6]

Awesome build Ray!

[Ade_TR6]

Stunning.  Nothing but admiration for what you have created there.

Ade

[TR6-6SPD]

Ray,
Thanks for the sound bite:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/eeyb24-gJyI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

(From journal: http://forum.britishv8.org/read.php?13,28217)

Before winter settled in here, did you get most of the engine tuning done?
I think you said you had final touches to the interior to do. Complete?
Tell me again where those instruments are from.
Cheers,
Ken

[cowboyra]

Ken

Unfortunately I had some medical issues come up so I haven't been able to work
on it for awhile. The motor is tuned pretty well on MAF only. Come spring I'll get
the MAP dialed in, that should give me better throttle response. I haven't done
anything with the interior yet. I'm still looking at material samples. I did buy a sewing
machine and started to practice with it. The cluster is out of a 08 Pontiac G8. Three
of the individual gauges are speed hut can bus gages, they get their input right from
the ECM. The other gauge is an aeroforce Interceptor gauge. It's pretty cool, it can
read any parameter the ECM can, it can clear codes and do case learns too.

[TR6-6SPD]

Cowboy Ray's on "Build Threads":
http://www.build-threads.com/
In particular:
http://www.build-threads.com/build-threads/triumph-tr6-or-z06/#more-8968

Congratulation Ray. The website, Build Theads is a great way to distract you away from your own project but maybe gain some ideas from others out there doing the same thing you are.

I like the editors apology:
"Firstly, I feel I need to apologise for the amount of LSx builds on the front page, as I generally like to aim for a bit of variety on the site. But hey, if people keep stuffing them into cars in interesting ways, I have to keep featuring them! "

Carry on Ray,
Ken

[cowboyra]

Wow, I had no idea and thanks