We’ve seen a couple of “poor man’s TR8” race cars in the 24 Hours of LeMons: you take a TR7 and drop a junkyard V8 out of a junked Land Rover into it. This works better than both the “really poor man’s TR8″ (a TR7 with Buick V6 swap), in the sense that it sounds a lot cooler, and is (slightly) more reliable than a Triumph Slant Four-powered TR7. Plenty of folks did this swap to their street TR7s as well, and I’ve found an example in a Denver self-service wrecking yard. (Read More…)
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Tagged as 1980, 1980 Triumph TR7, 1980s, British Leyland, Denver, Down On The Junkyard, Engine Swap, junkyard, Junkyard Find, TR7, TR8, triumph, Triumph TR7, Triumph TR8
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