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Posted By : Jason Chinn, 28-Feb-2004, 09:39am
They used a South African sourced ling throw crank I think, standard bores. Although they were marketed as "Super Sport" I think that was more
commercial esthetics (bull) than fact. A useful increase in capacity over standard, great for towing or touring, not so good for rev happy racing.
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Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 28-Feb-2004, 09:50am
They were 'High Torque' units, which would lead me to believe they increased the stroke. So as Jason says, not exactly a racery engine, but an improvement never the less. They'd be great away from the lights though.
Anyhow, I though the club we'rent doing these anymore? I thought the suplpier dissapeared or something...?
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Posted By : David Pearson, 28-Feb-2004, 10:50am
We (John Kipping / Canley Classics) did the first of these 8 or 9 years ago, we used them initially in our Courier delivery vans. Great for torque and
towing, but anyone who calls it a 'sports' engine should be chucked in jail under the trade descriptions act!!!
David
David
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Posted By : Jason Chinn, 28-Feb-2004, 11:22am
C'mon - tractor pulling's a sport - there was some on Sky a few weeks ago - mental Rollys Royce Griffin engined tractor - nice, the driver said something like "It was OK but then when we got the supercharger on it, it was better". Then there was the 4, yes count them four, blown big block Chevy engines on one tractor, running methanol - imagine the rebuild bills.
Farmers - huh!
Anyway, back onto 1600's - was it "just" a long throw crank then? OR were there any other special bits in there?-
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Posted By : David Rumens, 28-Feb-2004, 01:30pm
J,
Yes both versions, 1600 and 1700, were long throw cranks. This is something Triumph could have done as I believe the 1500 came about from the work they done on stroking out 2 litre to 2.5 litre. The 1300 was not fully stroked out to reach 1500, but Triumph left it at that. Maybe the three bearing crank put them off going any further or it did not fit in with their market strategy.
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Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 01-Mar-2004, 11:14am
I expect the spitfire Mk6 (if it ever came about) would probably have had the 'Sprint Engine'. It just seemed the next logical step as triumph had concluded that the 948 family had been developed as far as it could.
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Posted By : William Davies, 01-Mar-2004, 11:20am
I think the Honda 1335cc unit would have been more likely.......
The Sprint 2L engine would have made the Spitfire more potent than the TR7, so what message would that have sent to the buying public?
Cheers,
Bill.
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