RE: 6 Cylinder stags

[Richard Brake <richard.brake@domain.elided>]

The 2.5PI will deliver 132BHP (Saloon) and 150BHP (TR5/6). These would I
believe have been acceptable amounts of power and the engine bay was
designed around the Triumph straight six. The gearbox fits better as
well. 

The PI system could not meet proposed American emission specifications
so they went for the V8. Although I did read somewhere that they tried a
2.5 V8 with injection (where can I get one of them?).


Richard  Brake
richard.brake@domain.elided

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Andrew Beckwith [SMTP:andrewbe@domain.elided]
	Sent:	16 March 1999 11:45
	To:	stag@domain.elided; Brian A.Tink
	Subject:	Re: 6 Cylinder stags

	I know some people put 6 cylinder Triumph engines in Stags as
its supposedly
	cheaper then a Rover V8 or new Stag engine if the original blows
up.  One
	wonders if they are counting the drop in value they have
inflicted on
	themselves in their calculations.  I have heard of people
putting V6
	Commodore ( Australian GM muscle car) engines in Stags to
improve the
	performance.  I suspect most engines have been put into a Stag
at some time
	or another.

	I thought the original prototypes used a six cylinder engine
just as a mock
	up and the original engine was to be a 2.5L V8 engine.  This was
to low in
	power after emission control bits were put on for the US market
and hence
	the move to the 3.0L engine.

	The 3.0L engine lacks a bit of grunt but I shudder to think what
a 6
	cylinder engine or even a 2.5L V8 engine would have been like.



	-----Original Message-----
	From: Brian A.Tink <batink@domain.elided>
	To: stag@domain.elided <stag@domain.elided>
	Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 10:00 AM
	Subject: 6 Cylinder stags


	>Gents
	>
	>My reading of the history of the stags has revealed that the
proto-types
	were built with the 6 cylinder motors, however in orfder to
complete with a
	couple of other cars of the time, the stag was converted to the
V8 to give a
	little more grunt.
	>
	>Question:   did the stags ever get produced with the 6 motor?
	>
	>and more specifically, did the 6 motor stag ever get to New
Zealand?
	>
	>The reason is that we have a chap here in Canberra who has a
"72 stag with
	a 6 motor, and he claims that is how it was exported to Oz from
NZ.
	>
	>keep staggering   Brian
	>
	>