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Hello,

found this ambitious project in the inet and wanted to share. Anyone from this forum maybe?

Found it here: Push

Regards

beltempo

Stunning. That is a lot of engine

That's Barry Sumners Morgan Challenge Class A race car
It used to run a 4.6ltr v8

I made the radiator and the fuel tank for it...

Simon @ SiFab.co.uk

Thought I recognised it, that's a new engine though and it would great to know the background on the change.

Barry's old $.6 Rover was very well time served, and needed a full rebuild
He decided, that rather than sticking £XX,XXX into an obsolete engine, that he would build a modified 3.7 V6 instead...

He's had some teething issues and crashed it at Brands Hatch last year in a very wet race. It wasn't substantially damaged but it did end his season

Hopefully it will be out at the season opener at Snetterton 09/04/16

Simon @ SiFab.co.uk

Quite something and thanks Simon for colouring in the story.

This car is the original "Black Sheep" much campaigned by Barry for many years.

When TR engines became more expensive, Barry a self taught engineer decided to go down the V8 route. Originally a 3.9 unit with quad Dellortos, but presumable later upgraded to a 4.6 . There is a wonderful photo of him lifting a front wheel off the deck going round the Goose Neck at Mallory absolutely flat out.

I don't know about the V6 engine yet, but could find out some more details if there is any interest.

He applied the same thinking on his 4/4. He decided to use a modern Zetec rather mess around with Ford Crossflow units which give trouble when tweaked to race tune , he just bought a crate engine and used that because it would give him more time racing , and less rebuilding.