twin plenum stag

[sax player]

am i the only one to put a twin plenum in a stag!

[trackcar]

a twin plenum what? twin plenum injected Stag V8?

[sax player]

3.9rover v8 twin plenum injected yes.(from sd1 vitesse)

[M5 Russ]

Never seen one before mate - nice car by the way.
I have had a couple of twin plenum Vitesse's and I love them.

[purpleperil]

Nice conversion! Anyone aware of a fuel injection mod for the original Triumph V8 engine?

[wildoliver]

I'd be surprised if your the only one, it isn't a rare conversion so there must be others with tp units in place, it is a nice conversion though.

[M5 Russ]

wildoliver said:

I'd be surprised if your the only one, it isn't a rare conversion so there must be others with tp units in place, it is a nice conversion though.

Only around 250 to 500 tp units were made and half of those are either on race cars or on original Vitesses so there could be as little as 100 left for sale as such - it is an extremely rare conversion IMHO.
I have only ever seen 3 tp setups that were not in a Vitesse, 1 in a Westfield, 1 in a TR7 and this one in a Stag - thats it in 15 years of visiting car shows etc.

[sax player]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1jMAYMdcfc
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=saxplay...
for those who are interested
Shaun.

[wildoliver]

I'm sorry I don't believe for a second that few tp units were made, going off the sheer numbers available (I have been hunting one for a while now) on ebay and the like, I went to view a pair yes a pair of cars for resto which were original tp cars. Bear in mind the guy I went to see about these cars was an ex rover dealer and bought one of the cars ex demo at a trade closed sale back in the day and ROVER didn't even know it was tp. Hardly reasonable to expect the rover records to be anything like accurate.

I personally know of 2 MGBs powered by tp vitesse units.

[M5 Russ]

The exact figures for the t/p has never been known as it was not listed for sale as an option.
Basically it was a homlogation model of which 500 were needed to enable it to race in the touring cars.
When you bought a Vitesse at the time it was pot luck as to weather you got one or not.
Some had group A rocker shafts, some even had group A exhausts as well as the obvious group A injection (the twin plenum designed by Lotus although twin plenum is misleading as its actually a twin inlet design into a single plenum !!)
Rover was in a mess at the time and the exact production figures have never been known but I personally think that around 200 actually made it to the road plus of course those destined for the track but they are stillvery rare but yes teh t/p cars can be found with a little effort but the injection system on its own - not thats very hard to find but not impossable
I personally have owned 2 t/p Vitesses and knew of at least 3 others but the t/p engines in other cars - very very rare. .

http://www.roversd1.nl/sd1web/

Click on the history tab and scroll to the bottom of the screen for some info.

Here is some footage of one of my old t/p on the rolling road.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GkQX4jAvvEc&feat...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MlWWHwXrLB8&feat...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi6iCGPi_0Q&feat...

Regards
Russ

Edited by M5 Russ on Friday 13th June 11:29

[Speed eight]

Here is one I made a long long time ago...........



It is one of 5 which I built back in the early 1990's. Before I went on to fit the Cheverolet small block motors into the Stag.

Regards,
Speedeight.