Check this one out.......
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This bit of paper belongs too the same car...........

It now runs more boost and 100bhp nitro since the printout...........
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Thats better looking than most (if not all) of the ones I remember
Allways wanted a sprint, but by the time I could afford one finding a good one was difficult, although some might argue that was an impossible task anyway

Cheers

Alex

Is that dyno for real?

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yup its for real, here is the lump that made it............
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i take it its not a standard 1850hl motor then
thats serious power, whats the engine

Is the engine a cossy or somat?..I refuse to believe a dolly sprint motor can stay together at those power levels!

i was just about to comment on how many engine rebuilds it would of had during the dyno plot !!! , until of course i see its a cossie .

I had a dolly sprint.

i'm sure it was faster than that tho.....

Cheers

Chris

I saw this at Castle Coombe last year and to say it was quick was an understatement. He was running a Toyota Hilux axle as it was the only one he hadn't broken. It really was good to look at and it went as good as it looked and the best was the guy had done it all his self no open cheque book job.

I remember Trogaladites all to well. But thats a wicked bit of kit.
Steve.

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I used to love those cars... apparently they had a tendancy to loose their flywheel rings??? I was only 10-11 when they were in there hayday! Still.... where did all the cars with character go?

Steve

Ive still got the special tool for getting the cylinder head studs out,(they were on the wee so you couldnt get the head off without removing them)
Steve.

There's a car spares about fifty yards from our front door and today there was a Triumph 2.5pi outside there. There's a '68 Moggy thou there regularly and the bloke has had it from new. There was also a Herald there on Saturday.

I had an 1850HL which then became a donor shell for a Sprint I bought off my mate when he reversed it into a ditch at 60 just outside Newquay. My 22nd birthday present from my mum was a full set of valves after the two screws securing the drive sprocket to the cam let go! Seem to remember it being a b*tch to get the exhaust manifold studs/bolts out due to the angle of the engine.

My dad had a few dollies including a couple of sprints. Rolled his first one and my first car was a toledo with sprint alloys, man was it cool

when I was in the owners clubs (quarterly mag 'dolly mixture'!) there was a guy with a cossie and 4x4 running gear in one back then, could be the same guy?

Ned.

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I had a Dolly sprint as a first car, It didn't like going form 4th overdrive to first Kinda went pop. I've still got the rad,alt and warning cluster on my Locost

ATB Dan,

P.s. Chris i agree I'm sure mine had more power

Still got a sprint engine and gearbox under my bench, seriously thought of putting it in the Locost after a kind soul ran into the back of my sprint engined TR7 and wrote it off.
Would fit well under the bonnet as it is inclined and fitted with twin side draughts and is 150BHP in stock form.

The sprint is a very interesting engine, 4 valves per head (1st UK production car to have) but only one camshaft. one set of valve operate directly off the cam the other set operate off a rocker which runs of the 'back' of the cam.

- Alan

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Originally posted by Alan_Thomas
The sprint is a very interesting engine, 4 valves per head (1st UK production car to have)

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IIRC the RS1600 was only built in homologation quantities.

You could buy an rs1600 , so i think it was in production .

of course 4 valve heads were available in the 20s.

but who would make such a job of it and use only one camshaft and make it uber unreliable .

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Originally posted by Kissy
IIRC the RS1600 was only built in homologation quantities.

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i had 3 dolomites back in the late 80's early 90's, all 1850HL's one of which was an auto.
good little cars.... but they were prone to problems like most british leyland stuff...lol,
at the time there was a bloke running a 3.5 ROVER V8 in a dolly cos it was cheaper to insure than the 2.0 sprint.
but the love of the dolomite was lost for me when proceeding up egham hill a 1982 1.3 mazda 323 went passed me like i was stoodstill.(it had nothing to do with the extra ballast i was carrying of course)