timjohnstone

Thank you! All very helpful. It should be attached to a chassis later this week. Whilst the provenance isn't known, it has been rebuilt albeit decades ago, and the crank turned every month whilst it's been sat waiting to go in to a car. So with a little recommissioning it ought to be good.

Pictures as promised - apologies I didn't have more to begin with! As well as pinning down what engine this really is, we're particularly interested in what a riveted on engine number might mean.

Tempting Clive, but I bet the rivet holes will make the number underneath unreadable anyway, so might be a fruitless exercise. I'll go over there later today and take some socially distant photos from the garage door later and post them here when I can.

I'm waiting for further pictures - this is all I've got for the moment. Thanks for the replies!

A friend has what should be a 2ltr 6cyl Triumph engine, but would like to know what it's from. It's going in to a Spit6 project. The odd thing is that the engine number is on a riveted plate and not stamped on the engine block. Is this normal? Does it signify a Triumph Workshop "Rebuild" or "Exchange" engine or something? Any idea what is this engine number from? Tim

Well this is interesting! Yep - it is a YC engine number. I've always known the car wasn't matching-numbers. I had to replace the gearbox at one point so I know that's changed. But I've had the car nearly 20 years now and hadn't had cause to know the engine number! I wonder whether that's why I had such trouble getting the right needles when I put refurb SU carbs on it recently? I'm now wondering whether it's possible to find out the approximate age of the engine from the full engine number. Anyway, as for the fuel pump, a service kit is on its way so the forum's been excellently helpful as always. Thank you.

Ha! Ben Caswell - thank you - I think you're right. I have managed to unwittingly photograph part of the engine number when snapping the pump! That's going to make me laugh for the day. Kevin - thank you too. I'm going to search for a rebuild kit. That's all I really need, and it's more fun to rebuild than replace.

Hello I'm having trouble answering a simple question - which one of these do I need: This one (https://www.rimmerbros.co.uk/Item--i-RKC1624) for engine numbers up to FM93157 Or this one (https://www.rimmerbros.co.uk/Item--i-TKC3417) for engine numbers from FM93158 The answer's in the question, I know, but I keep my car a little way away and went out to it today to see if I could work out the answer. All I came back with are the two photographs attached, and from that I still don't know. I'd like to order a replacement on Monday, but I'm not going out to that garage for a few days now in order to do a better search for the engine number. It's a Spitfire 1500 first registered in January 1977. Can anyone give an alternative way of guessing? Does DVLA hold Engine numbers if I look up my reg number online somewhere? Is it a safe bet that an engine fitted to a car built at the end of '76 would be the earlier engine number? It's not all that expensive a mistake if I make a mistake really.

Thanks Dave.

That's perfect - thanks Gary. Just what I'm looking for.

Hi I've had a new vinyl soft top for my Spitfire 1500 sat in a box for a couple of years. I've finished rebuilding the car, but I do not trust myself to replace the hood on the frame myself. I would like any recommendations of a firm that'll fit the hood to a frame - I live in Gloucestershire. Thank you! Tim

I've tried to keep the ones that fit in to a captive bolt like the seat belts and seats. But for some reason there's still hundreds of others - the doors, door furniture, light clusters, transmission tunnel, boot stay, number plate and a myriad of other little tiny things I'll have forgotten about until I get to them.

Most of what I took off the car was replacement already, and mostly metric. Almost entirely worn out. I have 2 imperial socket sets and a couple of spanners, but not a patch on the tools I have for metric. Bearing in mind this is everything above the chasis - I'm not bolting on any suspension parts, transmission or anything like that - I had intended to get all metric replacements and a handful of fine thread ones in there as well. Now that I've found Namrick's website (thank you!!) I'm hit with the front menu choice of BSF, UNC, UNF, BSW or Metric! Do you have any recommendations on that bit? Thank you very much for the responses! :-) Tim

I'm working on a very long running cosmetic rebuild of my Spitfire 1500 I've had since about 1998. I've always kept the mechanics in good order but the bodywork and interior were suffering with age so that's all I've done here - strip everything off the car (except the engine, dashboard and running gear), sorted rust and sent it off for painting. https://goo.gl/photos/xXcfUZvsZHe6Zfzy6 Within the next few weeks I should be ready to start putting all the bits back together again. The question is I need to replace every old, ceased, wrong-sized or bent nut, bolt and screw. Does anyone have any recommendations for the best sort of garage packs of fastenings that would suit a Spitfire rebuild? Tim