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Diesel TR7

Postby Chris Turner » 10 Dec 2014 07:17

KHP836V is registered as a TR7, 1800 diesel, does anyone know anything about it. Still exists but not been on the road for a few years.The batch of KHP numbers were used to register most of the company owned development vehicles, when tax changes forced them to be registered in early 1980.

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Postby rugbyref1 » 10 Dec 2014 07:30

No idea about this car but registered at the same time as the JRW series and also the JVC & KHP genuine TR8's .....

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Postby tr8coupe » 10 Dec 2014 09:44

[:)]diesels soon to be banned from every city in Europe old and new cars[:)]
some of them to extreme from jan 2015 all cars older than 2000 banned from city centers [:D]
soon going electric on mine[:D]

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Postby Maxwell » 10 Dec 2014 11:18

An electric TR7 was recently featured in an issue of TR-Driver!
Back-copies might be available to new TR-Drivers Club members!

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Postby Cobber » 10 Dec 2014 11:45

Any city that bans any car of mine will inturn be banned by me, I will refuse to visit it or do any business with any company based in it.
I dislike bloody cities at the best of times, without them giving me even more reasons to avoid them!

And seriously....... any TR-7 unfortunate enough to be encumbered with a diesel engine is better off not being on the road!

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Postby FI Spyder » 10 Dec 2014 13:28

A diesel TR7 seems to be a contradiction of terms. My brother-in-law had a Volkswagon turbo diesel that went OK but even with a modern TDi it would seem to be not what the car is about. How heavy is a modern diesel compared to say an aluminum V-8?


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Postby Beans » 10 Dec 2014 13:53

It was suggested to me recently to stick a land Rover TD5 engine in one of my spare shells [}:)]
Quite like the idea, up to 300BHP and bags of torque (up to >500lbf) [:p]
And in a light car it would be even fairly economical, who's hiding a 2.84:1 diff [:D]

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Postby Hasbeen » 10 Dec 2014 14:17

I spend far too much time with diesel tractors, pumps & generators to be prepared to be involved with the stinking stuff in my leisure toys.

My sons 3.0L turbo 4WD Ford Ranger does perform very well, but it does not make me want one.

Isn't it typical that the fool academic boffins that advise our politicians are one day totally in love with diesel, & the next day want to ban it.

When do you reckon they will be telling us to burn everything we can find, because the planet needs more CO2?

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Postby john 215 » 10 Dec 2014 17:36

Hi,

Diesel TR7 now there is a project ! Could use the L series engine which based on the O series so at a guess would fit in the whole.

Diesel engine have come on so much, Audi have won Le Mans after all with one. Was working on a X5 M50D the other day, 3.5 triple turbo diesel engine, ' only ' 375 BHP but a huge 740nm of torque [:0] bl88dy awesome on the road !


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Postby Chris Turner » 10 Dec 2014 22:17

It seems this was a factory built car with the diesel version of the O series.

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Postby Craig C » 11 Dec 2014 00:46

My current daily is a 2.2l turbo diesel Sante Fe. An absolute weapon for a 1850kg AWD. That gets 6.5l/100km on the highway.

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This engine or similar in a <i>daily</i> driven TR7 would be fantastic.

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Postby silverseven » 11 Dec 2014 01:37

I'm also a huge diesel fan , it would be real sweet to see some modern oil burner technology transplanted into a seven !!!


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Postby john 215 » 11 Dec 2014 05:24

Hi,

Guess that would have been a very early version of the Austin Rover MDI / Perkins Prima engine that's roots lay with the O Series, eventually finding its way into the Maestro and Montego range of
cars.

The only other car engine they had oil burner way was diesel version of the B series and that made a better boat engine than car or anchor !!!


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Been great if they had been messing around with the ' Iceberg ' engine in 'our' car's, the diesel version of the Rover V8


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Postby John Wood » 11 Dec 2014 08:35

The car was more likely used as a test bed for the new diesel engine than a potential production TR7 Diesel.

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Postby silverseven » 12 Dec 2014 01:23

liking very much the v8 diesel idea John !!!


(could smoke stacks out the hood look cool [}:)])

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