The goal with this TR6 is to get more power. We started by asking Carl Heideman from Eclectic Motorworks to get it onto the Dynojet at Baker Engineering. The steady HP curve peaked at 74.9 -- Curt won the pool.
Carl wishes that trailers were easier to use -- easier to tie down the cars!
So, after the test, we removed the head to send it out for porting, polishing, and to raise the compression ratio. Lisa thought it would be a good idea to check the lifters.
Now a good lifter looks about like this. Really careful inspection will show one or two tiny imperfections in the surface.
But when we got to this one, we knew that the cam was toast!
So, today, Thursday, Curt pulled the cam. I then cc'd the volume between the piston and to the top of the block to find only 3cc. This number is an important component in the math in determining how much to remove from the cylinder head to raise the 7.75:1 engine to 8:1 or higher.
