Triumph Spitfire Motorsport iPhone/Android Wallpaper
It’s been very quiet around here due to the fact that I haven’t been in the garage since February now! I’ve been looking wistfully...
Category: Technical
New year, new engine…
Well actually, two. I’ve spent the winter carefully rebuilding the small crank 1300 that I bought last year, so far everything has been going...
Back to a 1300cc Triumph Spitfire Engine
Since the engine blow up at Zandvoort, I needed to quickly get the car back on the track (actually the road, as the next...
Behind the Wheel with Jackie Stewart
Found this video from the 1980’s featuring Jackie Stewart talking about performance driving. Although a lot of the focus is on road safety –...
Fault diagnosis and back pain.
A couple of weeks ago I was making space in the garage, kind of like a reverse Jenga in which you take all the...
Adding a cheap laptimer to the Spitfire race car.
For many years the Spitfire has been fitted with a Rollcenter T200 laptimer (pictured below). It works based on an infra-red timing beacon that...
Motorsport Rain Maps
Anybody who’s watched the F1 or MotoGP will know that the weather plays a significant role in determining the strategy (and the outcome) of...
Triumph Spitfire Differential rebuild
My Blackline LSD came and I was trying to sort out a way to get it fitted. However, most of the people who I...
Racing around the rules (video)
There’s some interesting discussion about interpreting the rules in this video from Historic Racing News. Enjoy 🙂
Which oil pump for a Triumph Spitfire? Angled or Straight?
There are a couple of choices for Triumph Spitfire/Herald oil pumps if we ignore the very early small bodied pumps. The difference between the...