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Looks amazing! Curious why you painted the valve covers and intake plenum black instead of the factory grey color? Also, what did Autosparks charge to wrap your wiring harness? I have one that could certainly used a refresh.

Absolutely looks beautiful quality work looking forward to see TR7 painted enjoy your videos very much

Wow! What an amazing job! Spectacular is right! Thanks for sharing all the videos👍🏻

Engine looks a million dollars and thank you for showing the loom being re-bound, very interesting

A great job on the engine it looks pristine.

Great to see thanks for sharing!!

Loving the content on this build, and also the attention to detail, it's going to be superb judging by your work so far. It must be very rewarding to see it coming together after all the effort that you've put in 👌👍

What is the inlet manifold from? I used to own an SD1 Vitesse and the manifold was completely different to this.

Great detailing and love seeing the V8 coming together with some really great info for people to learn from. Loved your offer of help too, top man!

Great video enjoy watching very much

Single Stromberg on the US TR7 !

That was really interesting. Lovely looking Cortina, but surprising (or perhaps not so surprising) what can go wrong if you don't really know what you are doing with an engine!

Another great video really enjoy watching you certainly know your stuff

What do you mean “balancing the pistons” ? You mean evening out the weights of the assemblies by removing excess material ? You implied that “bob weights” compensate for different weights across the piston assemblies ?

I really admire your work Chris. The machinists have done a great job it seems. Might pop in again sometime and say hello, or see you at the NEC!

Nice to see all the parts being refurbished and some great tips on the the new parts too. Wishing you all the best continuing on, look forward to it.

Love your channel. Keep going. It will grow.

Interesting on the TR8 how some things like the crank were not worn but the oil pump was... obviously the Rover V8 was an old technology engine even in the late 70s and there are many features like the camshaft that were never very durable even in its later years... Worrying how rusty the callipers and even the starter motor can get just from sitting for years, but they all look great now !

Nice update with good info on the oil pump. Good idea to show the witness marks highlighting the wear! Hope the littlun is good I could hear him in the background :)

Great update thanks Chris 👍

Test drove a TR 7 when they first came out and the brakes were scary bad. Dealer said they just needed adjustments but they clearly were a problem. Did not buy the car.

Nice video, superb job on the LT77 gearbox. I had to do my remote bushes (8 off) last year, due to them perishing!

Dolomite 8mins into video

Do you still plan on getting this TR8 to the NEC show Chris? Axle looks great all painted up and shiny new

Looking forward to seeing the PS pump overhaul

The preload nut is 1' 7/8" - so huge!

The shell is in great order I'm happy to see.

The water jacket (around minute 8) is nothing to do with the EGR system on export models, it is to heat the air entering the plenum to offset cooling effect of changes in pressure. Do not blank off!! There are also a few other factory TR8 fixed heads with efi that never left these shores (as well as several dropheads).

Nice, been looking forward to seeing the TR8 shell come back. When I stripped the diff off my TR7 (just a clean and repaint) I also was impressed with the quality & strength of the diff myself & at 73,000 miles there was still next to no backlash on the diff either.

your thumbnail look very basic i can make professional for you it can attract more attention

Fantastic ,love the attention to detail. Love Stags and Tr7/8.👍

What you said about County stuff - I used to just use old stuff and condition assess, but then I thought I would "give it a birthday" and buy a "new" oil pump. They sent me a County one. It just didn't work. As soon as it was tightened, it would freeze up. And no, it wasn't me, I have "hand fitted" far more delicate things. The three or 4 old oil pumps here were fine, so I assessed which was best spec = used that - fine. Everyone around me always "why not get full rebuild/rebore/new this/new that. Wheras I am "I can condition assess/tell if ok, so why not do that????" The other experience with new parts was when I decided to "go the whole hog" and get a NEW water pump (after always rebuilding my old ones). In 500 kms, it ate my jackshaft as was one of the "not hardened properly" ones. Hmmm. Then I bought "new floats" for the carbs, (from a specialist/so called OEM quality) they lasted one trip to work, only just made it home = full of fuel = old ones went back in. Any wonder why I am wary of "new" parts and condition assess??? I retired and got a pay out from work. I was going to buy reconned heads, as mine were ok, but done 400,000 kms. (I bought car in 93 with supposedly 90,000 kms, I added another 330,000 kms to that). My crank was worn (again, after 400,000 kms) so I was going to fit a good crank I had to my block, use existing pistons etc, new rings and bearings. A bloke in the UK (apparently old bloke who has passed on now.......... :-( ) had rebuilt Stag heads. But due to the freight being "once a certain size = cost same"; he had a rebuilt block as well. I had a payout from work (retired), so "what the hell", I got the lot. When I got it, the heads were skimmed farther than my old ones. So compression higher than I would like. But the block had gouges in the water pump surfaces, so I had to devcon up the deep gouges. It doesn't leak, but knowing it is there annoys me. I would never have bought it if I had known. WHO would A. damage it like that; and B. SELL it like that???? I have removed countless Triumph Stag/Dol WP's (same type) and NEVER damaged that precision surface. And - the pistons are County. Again, If I had known that, I wouldn't have bought it. It runs ok, but not as smooth as the old engine did................. and that was smoother with a worn crank!!!!!! I don't do many miles in it now (used to, was only car 93 to 99, 99 to 2012 was 50/50 everyday car with Dol Sprint; and drove across Australia return 7 times in the 90's) so it will do, but annoying. If it WAS my everyday car, I would rebuild the old block with the spare crank I have and condition assessed old pistons (orig), and then that would be perfect/far better. All in all, I should have stuck to my "condition assessed old parts" mantra. The biggest problem with these old cars is half the "new" remanufactured parts are just no good. But bikes are worse, far worse. I rebuilt a 62 BSA and a 74 Triumph Trident over the last 5 years, and have BOXES of "new" parts I have bought and they are useless. I either then had to buy "NOS" that are in 50 year old packets, or "buff up/re-use" old parts, as they are far superior to some of the junk around now for them. Makes it hard.

Great update, the black against the yellow (if that is going to be the colour will look great I'm sure. Can't wait to see the shell. Thanks.

Fantastic attention to detail on that TR8 Inlet system

That TR7 brings back memories for me. With that wedge shape, the TV commercials advertised it as "the shape of things to come." I drove a red 1976 TR7 in high school. It was a USA left hand drive with a 5-speed stick. Not a lot of HP, but for a small car it was enough power. Low to the ground made for excellent cornering. Front engine and rear wheel drive gave the car good balance. But the year 1976 was not kind to any cars made for the California market. Catalytic converters were a new smog requirement which robbed the car of HP and the car ran hot. It blew a head gasket going up a steep mountain highway, followed by a tank full of water contaminated gasoline from a gas station that was flooded during a rain storm. The engine was also filled with vacuum hoses everywhere. Needless to say, this car did not have a very long life. The pop-up headlights were so cool. Today, I still have two Corvettes with pop-up headlights and they are also manual transmissions, but 6-speed stick. Save the manual transmissions!

The TR7 is my car, and as Chris said it is a genuine one owner (before me) 18000 mile example but it had not been used for 12 years. Chris has done a really nice recommissioning job on it including a full tune up. I picked it up and drove 60 miles home, it drove sweet as a nut. Pity he isn't based closer to me.

Love the TR7 I've got one from the speke factory it is solid but it does not look like that😂 great video looking forward to some more

Thanks for the great video. Love that TR7👍🏻

Thanks for that. That has to be the best TR7 I have ever seen to date. The 4-speed box never lasted much past 33K miles if I remember. I did my 12 vane water pump last year for the same issue. My car was standing or let for 9 years and guessing the rubber seals perished during that time. I bought a seal kit as opposed to a new assembly.

What Make/Brand of fuel one do you recommend for the modern ethanol fuel ?

Lovely TR7... hard to believe it came from the Speke factory ! There's clearly a 70s Starsky and Hutch vibe going on with the side stripe and the chrome 8-spoke steelies....

Nice update, you are right a lot of these classics have personalities of their own. I have been trying to resolve a 'flutter' in my TR7 carbs (HS6) for the last few weeks. They baseline ok and have set them up correctly, timing ok (bang on) just doing my head in. Possible new needles required, the jets are squeaky clean (new plugs in too with a new dist cap) Nice hair cut and hope babby is doing well. Really looking forward to seeing the shell come back. Thanks.

Nice job indeed. The engine comes out of the Stag similar to how the slant 4 comes out of the TR7, raise the back and bring it out with gearbox attached. Nice additions with the photos at the end.

My uncle brought 1 of these and his 80k so far on rebuild full restoration told him his nuts

Audio was much better WITHOUT the external mike ! I think the next video should be how to clean and recomission a disgusting tea / coffee mug ! 🙂

Great video, thanks 👍 (FYI, it's Brake).

Plating came out really nice, lots of attention to detail rebuilding the throttle control etc

Great! Always nice to see the before & after. Looking forward to seeing the shell post dip! Hope there are no horrors with it.

Wow that TR8 engine is certainly tired and original…. lucky if the crank and cylinder bores are all good and it’s just a careful refresh with standard consumables. I presume for that era of engine it would have needed 3000 mile oil changes with classic 20w/50 mineral oil ? Did you say the red Stag has a 3500 engine i.e. Rover conversion ? It would be good on the videos to give little reminders like that about the car you’re talking about, also what model the Bristol was and what it came back in for, etc. The green Stag is interesting, hopefully you get to do an autopsy on the failed engine and maybe a rebuild…

Please make sure your customer supplied replacement stag engine is a goer. If you fit it and it’s a dud. Who’s going to foot the expense for your work fitting it. Great Chanel. All the best.