Posted by Scott Janzen
on 5/18/2009, 1:10 pm, in reply to "Re: Alloy valve cover"
76.99.19.52
My guess is yes, with some fiddling. I have three 40DCOEs on Triumphtune stepdown manifolds on my GT6, on a GT6 engine/head. I believe the TR6 block is the same height, so you are working with the additional 1/4 of head thickness. I do not know of that is all below the port openings- you should check on that. My engine is set low, egged out the bolt holes on the engine mounts, so it only clears the steering rack by 1/8" and probably rubs on a good bump when the mounts compress! The clearance to the carbs is fine - what you need to work on is the linkage. The linkage mine came with hit the hood - found out when I lowered the bonnet on a running engine and the revs jumped! I modified the linkage with bits from Pierce Manifolds - they have stuff to make up all kinds of interesting configurations.
Find a car that is equipped with webers, set it side by side with yours and take some measurements, some cardboard or clay on top of the carbs, close the bonnet, see how much room there is, etc.
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: will webers fit under the bonnet mounted
: on a tr6 engine? (using the gt6
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: Hi Scott.
: Thanks for your response. Yes your
: exactly right about the head and giving
: less clearance than normal. I've had to
: make lots of adjustments to get
: everything to fit under the hood
: without denting it and I'm just
: thinking that with an alloy valve cover
: there will also be interference
: problems. I currently have a nice
: chrome cover that fits fine (barely) so
: I don't really want to spend a bunch of
: cash on a cover that wont fit..
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