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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:27 pm
by pb911
Sounds good Tim and understand the roller-coaster of owning one of these cars if a piece of jigsaw is missing - sounds great now all working right.
Have same woes with webers on a bad day and want to do EFI - without your knowledge and expertise whats the easiest way other than getting an old CIS which I would rather avoid or looking at the TEC GT and PMO option which is so expensive - are there many options ?
Paul
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:48 pm
by impmad2000
pb911 wrote:Sounds good Tim
You should hear live ! Sounds awesome !
There's a project on Pelican that is looking to make the triumph tb's a kit. But may be a few years off. Or I can look into doing the same. The beauty of the Bitz racing kit is the manual and simplicity of the DIY conversion. See the thread here
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche- ... pdate.html
I see no eeason why the Triumph kit cant be made a weekend DIY install.
Tim
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:02 pm
by pb911
Okay so if I read this right , we drop our car off at yours Fri night , you weave your magic and we go home happy and with USB stick of settings on Sunday night ?
Thanks for the link though Tim.
Paul
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:06 pm
by hot66
great news Tim
It's been a long time , but worth it in the end
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:08 am
by Mike
Well done Tim, glad you've got it sorted!
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:24 am
by impmad2000
pb911 wrote:Okay so if I read this right , we drop our car off at yours Fri night , you weave your magic and we go home happy and with USB stick of settings on Sunday night ?
Not quite what I was thinking, but .....
Tim
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:56 am
by smallspeed
sounds like a nice little earner! get the kettle on, i'll be over after work
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 8:57 am
by TheEasyLife
TheEasyLife wrote:Great news. I won't believe it untill you've taken me out for a run though!!
Seriously, congrats on figuring it out. Do you need your 2.4Eish engine now?
James
Well, we went out for a run in Tims car yesterday. Wow!!! What a difference from when I was driving it a and Tim tuning it last year before CLM.
I can now attest to it being eager to rev, sounding like a banshee and accelleration is simply brilliant. It was so tractable and very refined now with no gaps in the map from tickover to redline. It started immediately whether cold or hot. On the road, the wide wheels and servo brakes give you the confidence that it will grip and stop under any normal circumstance with what feels like a much larger capacity engine. We overtook cars with ease on the test run. With me behind the wheel, I struggled with the 901 gearbox again!!
Overall, I'm very impressed with the Triumph ITB's and would never have expected this amount of sheer grunt from what is essentiallly a 2.2T. I quickly saw why Tim posted about his new found happines in his car and he was grinning like a cheshire cat in the time I was with him as he now has a very, very usable car.
I'm now quietly wondering what sort of grunt I'd get out of my rebuilt 2.4E/Sish engine with ITB's and equally what Tim will get out of his 2.4Eish High Compression engine!!!
Probably next year or the year after for me but theres nothing to stop me quietly watching ebay ads for Triumph ITB's in the meantime....
Again, congratulations Tim.
James
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 10:05 am
by Gary71
Fantastic to hear it's finally done
Buying the Triumph throttle bodies is the easy bit!
They don't exactly bolt on
Tim, have you played with the ignition map yet? There was certainly more to come from that.
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 10:09 am
by impmad2000
Trip to Bob's on Friday will (I hope ) bring a little more from both maps. I have had to switch to an RPM vs TPS Map because the manifold pressure simply disappears as soon as you crack open the throttle. This means that the basic map has had to be re-written. I'll post the maps once I have it base lined on the rollers.
Cheers
Tim
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 4:16 pm
by impmad2000
.. And weighed in today (3/4 tank fuel) at 1040 kg on the local council weigh bridge. On the light side of Good for a Targa I think
Tim
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:59 am
by 911hillclimber
You must have seen the article in the latest Porsche Classic mag using Triumph bodies?
Great article and it all looks so good.
Saw some PMO injection stacks on a completed 911 the other day, very very nice.
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 7:07 pm
by pht9
Nice work Tim, must be so rewarding to see it completed
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:25 am
by impmad2000
I had the suspension setup yesterday, Fast road setup, see it here working hard at Donnington Park. I still need to fit the ARB, but ran out of time.
The car performed really well, and the later servo'd brakes were awesome.
Good fun
Copyright Extreme Sports Photography
Tim
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:42 am
by Gary71
