A little study of the development history of the Cobra might have been helpful.
Shelby went though similar things after shoving a high horsepower American V8
into a Brit sports car.
Even the first cars were fast as H%!! but you could watch the chassis
disintegrate around the engine...
--
Jim
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 15:25:05 +0000
>Piers,
>
>To make a very long and sad story really, really short, we proved quite
>conclusively something we had heard but didn't actually believe, and that is
>that the weakest part of a TR-6 is the rear end (and everything to which it is
>attached, too). After the third differential blew up and did enough damage to
>the frame that another one (which we didn't have one of anyway) could be
>installed, we moved the 300+ HP engine to a far more appropriate vehicle, a
>1954 Chevy pickup, and sold the TR-6 remains for parts..
>
>Walt
>
>--
>"Anything more than 500 yards from
>the car just isn't photogenic." --
>Edward Weston
>
>
>-------------- Original message from "Piers Hemy" : --------------
>
>>
>> Good sense prevails!
>>
>> A TR-6? - a friend has just told me of his 'fun' weekend with a rental TR-4A
>> a few weeks ago. So much fun that he went out and bought .. an MX-5.
>>
>> But I'll bite, tell us all about it!
>>
>> Piers
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