Where to start.....
At the beginning i suppose
Ive had triumph acclaims for on and off for 15 years and loved every one of them they tend to handle rather well, go resonably quickly some seem quicker than others, but ive always planed to build a properly quick one.
A couple of years ago my mate barry and i swapped this car for the spares some chappy had bought it for, to fix his acclaim, the head was off the engine but he said it was a minter and way too good to break, needless to say he was mistaken but a deal was done and we hauled it back to my workshop, as barry needed a daily, we grabbed an engine and triomatic box, steering colum and a matching door lock, off the pile and had "frank" up and running in a couple of days and ready for an MOT by the end of the week. Barry drove frank round for abit until he found himself a landrover discovery then as i was between classics i took frank to our local club meets.
I had been looking into wheel options and found the 15" BMW mini minlite wheels with the standard 175/65/15 tyers give the same rolling radius as 145R13 but with a lot more width, this fits on the acclaim with about 5-7mm clearance between the shock and tyer wall. the center fits the hub locating ring add some new wheel nuts and they weigh the same as the 13" steelies and compleatly transformed handling.
I fitted the modified grill i had been working on for a while
20160601_215621_zps8odg2scv by logicaluk, on Flickr
franks paint work was pretty bad so i rubbed the paint back with a green meanie, I had intended to give him a rustolium paint job but couldn't decide on a colour so left it with flat paint and blacked out the crome.
20160531_184553_zpspaffiz9x by logicaluk, on Flickr
We drove frank around like that till his MOT ran out and all i wanted to do was modify it to go quicker so first thing to do is make the structure realy solid.
More soon
Dan
At the beginning i suppose
Ive had triumph acclaims for on and off for 15 years and loved every one of them they tend to handle rather well, go resonably quickly some seem quicker than others, but ive always planed to build a properly quick one.
A couple of years ago my mate barry and i swapped this car for the spares some chappy had bought it for, to fix his acclaim, the head was off the engine but he said it was a minter and way too good to break, needless to say he was mistaken but a deal was done and we hauled it back to my workshop, as barry needed a daily, we grabbed an engine and triomatic box, steering colum and a matching door lock, off the pile and had "frank" up and running in a couple of days and ready for an MOT by the end of the week. Barry drove frank round for abit until he found himself a landrover discovery then as i was between classics i took frank to our local club meets.
I had been looking into wheel options and found the 15" BMW mini minlite wheels with the standard 175/65/15 tyers give the same rolling radius as 145R13 but with a lot more width, this fits on the acclaim with about 5-7mm clearance between the shock and tyer wall. the center fits the hub locating ring add some new wheel nuts and they weigh the same as the 13" steelies and compleatly transformed handling.
I fitted the modified grill i had been working on for a while
20160601_215621_zps8odg2scv by logicaluk, on Flickr
franks paint work was pretty bad so i rubbed the paint back with a green meanie, I had intended to give him a rustolium paint job but couldn't decide on a colour so left it with flat paint and blacked out the crome.
20160531_184553_zpspaffiz9x by logicaluk, on Flickr
We drove frank around like that till his MOT ran out and all i wanted to do was modify it to go quicker so first thing to do is make the structure realy solid.
More soon
Dan