One of favorite toys was a’68 Triumph Spitfire I owned a few years back. I bought it as a roller, already set up for an Sbc/th350 combo and sporting a 9” Ford rear. The car had a nice custom made square tube chassis, and had shaved door handles, hood clips and other custom touches. Since I had a 327/th350 sitting in my shop, I went for it. Engine room was tight, with the engine set so far back, I had to fabricate an access panel in the Cockpit. I had to re-do the interior anyway as it was set up for someone really short. The 327 fit into the engine bay and I was able to close the hood without having to add a “bulge” or air scoop to clear the carburetor. The car was a rocket, really low, and rather scary to drive…
Looks to me as if you had the same problems making everything fit that I've had getting my what was supposed to be a '27 T roadster and is now a '29A RPU finished. There's not a lot of difference in what you did with the Triumph and what I'm trying to accomplish with the A. They're all put together with nuts and bolts, paint is optional.
Poor man’s Cobra! I nearly bought a MGB once with the thoughts of putting a V8 in it. Got to figuring cost and changed my mind…
When I was around 20 (50 years ago) I had an MGB fitted with a Mazda 12A rotary engine out of a written off race car. Went like stink as it had 128HP at the wheels. A stock MGB would be hard pressed to muster half of that. The British did build some nice drivable sports cars back in the day.
The anemic 4 cylinder that came in the ‘68 Spitfire, mustered up about 75 horsepower. The 327 I installed, weighed 75 lbs more and had 300+ hp…
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