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General Category => Triumph Sports Cars => Topic started by: Moderator on October 18, 2012, 03:38:55 AM

Title: Rear end identification
Post by: Moderator on October 18, 2012, 03:38:55 AM
Please have a look at this photo of a semi-famous vintage racecar:
(http://www.britishracecar.com/BillHart-Triumph-TR250K/BillHart-Triumph-TR250K-DA.jpg)

It's not one of my better photos... but you can see a battery on the left. An aluminum fuel tank, a fuel pump, and a pressure regulator are on the right. Hoses for brake cooling are on both sides. Underneath all that, you should see a modified Triumph TR-4A frame. (I expect it's extensively modified if not entirely new... but I'm told it's a "TR-4A frame". Who am I to argue?)

Here's my question: "From this photo, can you tell or even guess anything at all about the rear end?"
Title: Re: Rear end identification
Post by: roverman on October 18, 2012, 11:08:31 AM
IRS, DeDion, 3.577/1 ratio, with Laycock limited slip. If your going to guess, why hold back ?  roverman.
Title: Re: Rear end identification
Post by: Moderator on October 18, 2012, 01:08:42 PM
Clearly IRS.

Nissan differential? Lexus? BMW? Certainly not Triumph, right?
Title: Re: Rear end identification
Post by: MGBV8 on October 20, 2012, 11:03:36 AM
What rear end?    ;)

What little you can see looks like a stock TR4A frame, which was IRS from the factory.  So whatever is a near bolt-in upgrade.

Apparently, some TR folks are using BMW & Nissan R200 diffs.

Where's Dan Blackwood when you need him? Probably off watching a Marshall football game....
Title: Re: Rear end identification
Post by: mgb260 on October 20, 2012, 08:58:10 PM
Looks like Richard Good's mounts. He uses a Nissan R200 in his kit. Calvin Grannis would know.
Title: Re: Rear end identification
Post by: MGBV8 on October 21, 2012, 09:13:35 AM
More info:

http://www.goodparts.com/shop/index.php?categoryID=16

http://tr6.danielsonfamily.org/DiffMain.htm
Title: Re: Rear end identification
Post by: Dan B on October 21, 2012, 02:47:36 PM
Could it be this? http://forum.britishv8.org/read.php?3,1466

The mounting ears look stock to me.