James

Put decent dampers on all round and you probably don’t even need an ARB for it to handle well. I have these on the front of my Mk1; https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SHACKTUNE-KONI-FRONT-DAMPER-INSERTS-TRIUMPH-2000-2-5PI-MK1-MK2-STAG-/143382980500?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

Interested to see how you get in with the Speeduino setup.

Always interested in EFI conversions!

Great stuff, Steve. I bought the CD originally — I always wondered how to get the contents off. CD now long gone, don’t think I’ve had the means to even read one for the last ten years.

Hi Howard, Why are PDFs unsuitable? I'd hope the above link explained it. Some more reasons are here; https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2018/07/16/why-gov-uk-content-should-be-published-in-html-and-not-pdf/ Again, I caveat that not all of this applies, but gives some good reasons. I didn't say they couldn't also be PDFs — but primarily they should really be in normal webpages for people to be able to access them how they want. I would prioritise people being able to access them in the now over things being archived in the future. There are things like https://archive.org/web/ that do a great job of this automatically — and in truth if you really want to you can always "File > Save as PDF" if you want. (Unsurprisingly I do this for my job, and I have to worry about it there — and have seen the issues it can cause directly, as well as the benefits of doing-things-right) James

I mean accessibility — for example: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/accessibility-requirements-for-public-sector-websites-and-apps Obviously this is not a public sector website, but I think we should all try harder to cater for those with issues in accessing content.

It would be great if these could be posted as actual content on the site rather than PDFs. PDFs are really awful for accessibility - plus as content they can be searched and archived a lot better.

Hi Steve, Never my intention to criticise you. Only that these things are historical documents and I feel sharing and being open with them is for the better. Or else eventually we lose them and everyone loses. (it wasn't your name on them after all) As someone who has provided various reasonably heavily used Triumph related utilities on my website for the past eighteen years I sympathise with providing stuff for free. Each one of those has had a few rewrites as the tech they're based on has gone out of date and taken considerable time and effort. More fool the people who don't search hard enough and end up paying for stuff. James

These are great. Though the watermark is intensely irritating. I wish people would sign up to the spirit of free and open stuff. (the slides are clearly out of copyright by now?!)

This makes so much more sense. Great job!

It doesn’t make any sense that LEDs would be hotter than halogens. They use less watts and are more efficient. The heatsinks on them are to spread out the heat rather than “cool” as they are far more sensitive to heat.

I've never had an issue with it except when it didn't come with the right cap. It's such a simple device assuming you get all the connections tight and don't use full tyre pressure. Was happy to have it when bleeding the Lockheed brakes on my 2000 the other week. I get people might not like it because it's a bit more faffy to clean out and setup etc though.

I really like my Britool extra long spanners and cordless Makita 1/2" impact gun. Plus probably the much maligned Eezibleed.

Yep — https://sites.google.com/a/mintylamb.co.uk/triumph2000efi/

My highly tuned 2 litre has approximately a 2" butterfly — when you work out the area it's about the same as twin HS4s An SU has a relationship between inlet size and vacuum — fundamentally doesn't work properly if too big.

You're better off sticking with the same carbs and setup as those from a Mk2 GT6. That way you can use the same needles etc 175s are likely to be too big, will be harder to tune and give you no extra power at all... just doesn't make any sense.

My saloon is off for a session at a rolling road next week to finally get it mapped. Only 11 years after fitting the EFI... Needs valve clearances checking before that. I have an idle valve to fit, however that might depends how much better the maps are dialled in after the rolling road session. Needs a new throttle cable. Side project is a digital dash I’m making for the EFI. Has lots of different gauges and can show any variable the ECU spits out. I’ve designed a rev counter gauge that takes up the whole screen and flashes at shift points etc for an upcoming track day. FullSizeRender.mov

Problem is, they’re all going up. It’s not like you could swap your Triumph for something more exotic. Shame for young people, but then I guess they’ll just have to buy an MX5 or something. Which to be fair are now as old as my 1977 Spit 1500 was when I bought it in 2001.

The effort to create a time lapse in 2008 compared to now is immense. Now it would just be a GoPro with a huge SD card. I wish I had more photos and videos from my runs.

Come on now — we all know the correct place to find these things; http://www.mintylamb.co.uk/gearspeed/

Hi all,   It has been out of action for about a year and a half — and I've finally got around to resurrecting it. Lots of people asked me about it over that time — so here it is. www.mintylamb.co.uk/suneedle James  

Officially a straggler.

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Raider wrote:I don't  think it would be sad if everyone did their own thing. My original  vision was turn up, pile  off the  ferry and see you in Nice at one of the possible hotels. That's not really an event though is it? Surely the fun is driving with others in the club. Otherwise why not do it in your own time at your own pace. It's super cliquey if the whole thing is about "going off and doing your own thing" because it presumes people are in social groups. You could never sell the 10CR outside of the club that way. Raider wrote: The thought of being out there by ourselves with another Triumph within half a mile or 20 miles was part of the romance of it. Then there's the chance encounters and stops for fuel or food etc and seeing another entrant drive by or pull in for a quick chat. The problem is that Europe is really rather a large place and the chances of bumping in to someone goes down to virtually nil. It doesn't matter if that other Triumph is a mile away or 20 or 200. The last 10CR I did was in 2009 and we hardly saw another car which was just boring as hell. In 2005 I had the best event ever because we grouped up with Don as well as the Mr Picton — we did our own thing, went around a few places of interest, had some lovely food, all at our own leisure and it was superb. It was good because we were together. James *looking for something to reignite his love of CT*