I know this link has been around for some time but I think it is another example of the different type of engines that you can stuff into the TR6. Check it out at the following link:
http://roadspeed.blogspot.com/2008/02/1975-trbmw.html
Cheers
Byron
I haven't seen this TR6 Byron. Thanks for posting this, as always like to see photos of others ideas. Nice! I'm going to need a roll bar for sure!.
German engine in a British sports car? That's just SO wrong.
JB
Guess we shouldn't be sayin' anything about the new Mini. Eh, Jim?
Oh, you can say anything you like of course, I pretty much do. Probably should have put a "winky" on that post though. Aren't afterthoughts a B****?
The BMW Mini? That's a German car. Nothing British about it.
JB
Jim I agree with you that the new Mini is not British. The cool thing about this website is that nothing is sacred. The first idol that gets smashed is that British sportscars are not sacred and can be greatly improved with newer drivetrains.
I know hotrodders pride themselves with being iconoclastic. The truth of the matter is that they create their own idols and rules about how things should be done. I read Hotrod magazine online and I get a real chuckle about some of the cars they do articles on, like how about a 1967 Camaro with a turbocharged Toyota Supra engine in it, the "purists" howled about it. Another one was an LS engine in a Fox Bodied Mustang this ticked off the "purists" also.
The truth of the matter it doesn't really matter what kind of engine you put in a car as long as it works and is properly engineered, this is what makes hotrodding so cool. In some ways I am kind of like a purist in how a car should look and I can be quite opinionated about it, then I remind myself that not everyone shares my views on these things.
Please do not take this the wrong way I have a lot of respect for you and your creativity and skills.
Have a great day.
Cheers
Byron
Common Jim, the British have borrowed German engines for their sports cars before, remember the AC Ace Bristol. That engine was a BMW design that the British got as war reparations after WWII. Of course it took Shelby to drop an American V8 into the car to really wake it up.
You know me Bill, always willing to stir things up. Actually over the decades the Germans have made some damned fine engines. Odds are it pisses them off to see them put into British cars. But hey, I've got a "better" idea. Put a German engine in a French car! Or better still, a Russian car!
Now in this new modern era, the Japanese make some of the finest engines on the planet, and they make some sweet V8s too. Bears looking into I think, and sometime before too long I'll be test fitting a 1UZ into an MGB just to see what it'd take to match 'em up before the engine goes in Dan's TR-7. EGAD!! A Japanese engine in a British car?!!? That's just so VERY wrong!
Yeah! Let's DO it!!
JB
Who's going to accept responsibility for the oil leak?
That'd be from the differential. And the shocks. And the carbs ... no wait, we got rid of the SUs.
Jim
Nice swap. I'd drive it. No worse than putting a Pinto motor in a TR6! ;)
Tut-tut, at least Jensen Healey and Mother Mopar are somewhat related,(Interceptor with bbm). Yea I know-who cares ? roverman that's who.....
Yeah, they are what, second cousins? :)
Nice swap. I keep looking for an adapter to mate an Audi 4.2 V8 to a T-56 myself. It is nice to see people thinking outside of the box.
Somehow that doesn't seem like much of an upgrade. BMW's are horsepower engines versus the torque monsters the British were known for (excluding things like the coventry climax and Ford twin cam). I would think the 3.5l big six BMW motor would be a better choice. But, what I love about this group is the openminded attitude. So, this conversion is wonderful too.
There are a few bigger pictures here
http://tr250v8.com/images/mitty/019.JPG
http://tr250v8.com/images/mitty/020.JPG
http://tr250v8.com/images/mitty/021.JPG
http://tr250v8.com/images/mitty/022.JPG
The attraction iirc was that the engine was cheap, offered a hefty upgrade from stock and fit without cutting.
Interior isn't to my taste, but then it isn't my car. The conversion is done to a very nice standard if you see it in the flesh.