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RON 375G
Following a brief exchange on the Triumph Cars Yahoo mailing list which caught my eye I made contact with a guy who was extolling the virtues of Lucas PI. He struck a chord with me and we exchanged emails as I was interested in the engine in his car. That guy was Alan Chatterton
What follows here is a montage of those emails and some photos of RON.
What caught my eye initially was "I have a MKI PI with injection plus some "toys" and its about 185-190BHP and goes like STINK! It needs less fettling with than a triple carb set up. I also drove a MKII PI on triple webers and it was SLOWER than the standard Injection car!"
Here's what RON has to offer
TR6 based engine (CR block) which has been decked by 20 thou.
A MKII 2500 S (219016) head with bigger valves from Chris Witor and slight porting work.
The cam is an SAH357 cam, with duplex timing chain.
The bottom end is lightened and balanced with a special lightened flywheel with a Laycock PI Clutch.
The metering unit is TR5 based which has then been calibrated to suit (specialist job)
Late double-balance pipe injection manifolds with a K & N Filter on Triumphtune/SAH 6-2-1 Manifold and a Triumph-Tune GT Silencer system
Pirhana electronic ignition
Stag based competition gearbox with double bearings on the layshaft and a competition J type overdrive on 2/3/4 running about 500psi to cope.
It then has a 3.7:1 diff, roller bearing driveshafts, stag propshaft and stag brakes.
Running 6x14 Minilights
Obviously oil cooler spin on filter, etc etc.
All this means nearly 200 BHP and I guess a similar torque reading. Its frighteningly quick, wheelspins on dry tarmac in 1st and 2nd and will beat a 16v Golf GTI from the lights. Top end, haven't had the balls yet, had it at 110mph and it was still pulling hard!!
Bodywork looks very tatty, needs major restoration really but it is still legal and gets abused regualrly. Its not going to win any prizes for looks but he makes up for it in noise and speed!!
Now for a few pictures, Alan had only just bought his camera so these were the first few shots taken in the garage. I intend to go take a look at RON soon and maybe I'll get a few more pictures of the beast in full view.
There you go!