Nice collection of Triumphs! What modifications do you have planned?
Picked up a pretty solid GT6+ in Ohio (Sunday 6, June 2010) Destined to be my Vintage Racer. July 9th. about a year later I’m almost ready to go racing…
Brutus performed pretty well for the first event ever and as I drove the car …
Brutus and I had a successfull first ever race weekend at the Canadian Historic Grand …
Many thanks to all the racers, family and partner that rallied to support me for …
Tonight the engine got a scrubbing with degreaser then a hot power wash. Old CAM …
Last weekend I managed to install new ceramic pads in the front along with the …
I cleaned up the pistons last night and gathered up all tha other pieces to …
I took Friday off to get a jump on building a fresh engine for Brutus. …
For race school I had the pleasure of being coached by John who has been …
Thanks to Peter and Mikes awesome cars we had a great display of Triumph Racers …
Down the truck elevator to level 7 and a short drive through the MTCC where …
After a few hours of polishing I carefully tarped Brutus on the neighbors trailer and …
Having been invited to be one of 3 feature Triumph race cars in the Canadian …
Brutus’s first official car show was the Port Elgin Pumpkin Festivals “Cinderella’s Carriage Antique and …
All loaded up for a quick get-a-way after work to Mosport for the first time …
I designed and drafted up a pattern for a nice heavy gauge aluminum fuel cell …
I installed Camero/Corvette 12mm wheel studs for strenght/safety. New Roto Couplings, bearings and seals went …
First Event for Brutus was a great success. 7 runs improving my time each run …
Brakes, Clutch, New Rims & a few other details… Blew out all the brake and …
The new Clutch and Brake Master Cylinders went in last night. I re-piped the clutch …
The past couple of weeks has seen good progress and Brutus is getting real close …
The garage was a good place to be in the heat of the day so …
In the past week the detailing has come together with the race strip and numbers …
Fortunately they still sell the Transtar product so I was able to get the Catalyst …
A few hours of wet sanding and masking Saturday has the main body and drivers …
The weather cooperated this weekend and although I was feeling under the weather with a …
I decided that prior to painting I’d better wrap up all the interior work. So …
I designed my own small car hauler and had a local chap fabricate it over …
Friday morning (May 27), I solvent washed the car, touched up a few minor things …
I thought I’d take a diversion from all the welding grinding, and sanding and stripped …
I managed to get a couple hours in on Brutus tonight and installed the new …
Once the inner beam was installed the rocker and rear quarter dogleg panels went on …
I fabbed up a full length inner strengthening beam and stitched it in where there …
Progress… Cage is finally done so Cliff and I picked up Brutus today. My buddy …
The light gauge Aluminum I picked up worked great for the door skins and I …
Cut out some 3/8” plywood tonight and started laying out the aluminum skin I’ll laminate …
Home sick and bored crazy so I brought up the passenger door and enjoyed sitting …
After cleaning up the surface rust and corrosion I flushed the gear box a couple …
I spend a few hours cleaning the transmission which was showing it’s age, leaking like …
It took about 3 hours tonight after work to strip the engine block of old …
I dropped into a local metal supplier and found some decent, used, light weight aluminum …
I was up 5:30 AM Monday finished painting the small parts I had anti rust …
Great to have an empty recroom at my disposal for all the refurbished and new …
I had a great day yesterday in the garage. On top of getting the timing …
The intake manifold was extremely messed up with a lot of orange over spray, oxidation …
Both pieces came up nice and clean and I finished them off with a solvent …
I stripped the oil pan and timing cover to bare metal, they were both a …
It took about 6 hours of stripping, repairing and painting… The lights are almost better …
Here are the lamps prior to restore. The bulb holders were shot, some pieces broken …
Bumpers came up real nice and should look good in gloss black, just like the …
A little warm spell/thaw and seeing the roll cage almost complete I”m motivated to get …
Finally back to the build and Kent is doing a great job fabbing the cage. …
I picked up dad Saturday and thanks to some late season nice weather took us …
Spent a few hours stripping about 5 layers of old paint of this thing, sanded …
A couple evenings of wet sanding polishing and some gold pin striping I picked up …
Well, the racer build was put on hold for a couple weeks while a packed …
I spent Thanks Giving day tarping up a paint booth in my shop, finish sanded, …
A couple of evenings in the garage this week got the bonnet to an acceptable …
Finished the rough block sanding on the outer bonnet the last few nights, removing a …
Finally back in the man cave and working on the racer. The bonnet is real …
Picked up two nice sets of Rimms from a chap in Ottawa this week. Panasports …
Weekend plans were going down in flames Friday when I learned the place I hoped …
I’m going overspec 1 3/4” .095 DOM tubing (I could use 1.5” but for the …
After a couple more hours of grinder, wire wheel, sander and a solvent/cleaner wash down …
I was just about to finish tacking the last bit under the drivers side floor …
Re Plated the inner rockers and did a little welding and plating under the floors …
Started into the roll cage, cut and tacked in the 3/16” plate mount points for …
Working out the sheet metal work on the floors and in the trunk. Closed up …
I spent a few hours in the garage tonight cutting and fitting cardboard as a …
I managed a few more hours in the man cave tonight cleaning up my welds …
June 27, another 7 hours in the driveway today with the water blaster, solvents, cleaners …
June 25, spent a few hours cutting and welding in 3/32 plate to re-inforce the …
Final stages of stripping out the car prior to building it back up.. Ancilliaries and …
cupcakeNice collection of Triumphs! What modifications do you have planned?
vangoughvHi, thanks for noticing/asking Daisy is a stock show car/driver with minor mods such as a custom interior that is still in the spirit of the day you could say, freshened the engine and added a few minor performance parts like K&N's, Pertronix Distributor and Monza exhuast. Vintage Racer I'll initially restore to a pretty stock format since I will be new on the track next year and VARAC rules don't have a lot of flexibility. The engine compression will be heightened, flow the intake and exhaust, make sure the mechanical and safety measures are top notch... Long term, go to SVRA rules and change out the weak rotoflex, strengthen the transmission and upgrade the engine to stage 3 perhaps. We'll see how next year goes... The spitfire will be on hold for at least 2 years and I may even sell it since I could use the garage space and may not want to invest the time later, we'll see. Cheers, Vince
vangoughvI spent a few hours in the man cave again last night fixing some of the mess the PO has made of the inner rockers and front floor pans. I fabbed up some inner rockers and a small patch for the front passenger floor and welded them in. The extra layer on the inner rocker will add a little strength in case of a side impact which is good...
vangoughvGot my official car # today ^b144^b In honor of Group 44 Racing...
TR4racerHi Vince. Looking good man, I'm planning on building a GT6 this winter and would be interested in seeing more pics of the rollcage when it's done, and if possible the name of the shop that did it. Thanks Mike
vangoughvFinished the rough block sanding on the outer bonnet the last few nights, removing a lot of excess bondo from previous jobs that had not been blocked down properly. I sprayed on a light guide coat late night so it'll be ready for the first pass of finish block sanding at my next opportunity. Progress....
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