June 28, 2007

Installed an electric fan. This one is a 10" Hayden fan with thermostatic control relay. I mounted it to two alluminum bars than that bolted into the holes next to each of the holes the radiator is bolted to.

July 28, 2006

Speedometer rebuild.

July 22, 2006

Rebuilt, aligned and ready to go.

July 21, 2006

Test fitting the new wheels, tires, and hard top.

July 20, 2006

Reassembly.

July 16, 2006

Above is parts powerder coated and ready to be baked.

The ball joints were just waiting to fall completely apart.

Bottom is parts powdercoated and fasteners zinc plated and ready to be polished.

July 15, 2006

The ball joints are completely shot.

Bottom picture show the parts sandblasted and ready for powdercoating.

June 19, 2006

Tigers are usually plagued by overheating and this tiger was no different. The core was 10% blocked and a "new" one was needed. A second original tiger core was cleaned and rodded. The entire assembly was then painted with radiator black paint from Eastwood.

May 24, 2006

Using the stock Ford small block adapter this oil filter fits directly onto the engine. A tiger with headers may not be able to use this solution.

May 23, 2006

The tiger has a remote oil filter that consists of several pipes that tend to leak. The upper pipes next the oil filter started to leak badly on this car and something has to be done.

January 11, 2005

Just for fun a grill from a Series 1 - 2 Alpine has been installed. The mounting holes are different and the grill opening on the early cars is smaller so you going to have to mess with things to get it to look good. I think it looks much better than the Talbot bar.

December 24, 2005

Alpines and Tigers have saddlebag gas tanks and here you can see mice have packed the area under the gas tanks in each fender full of junk. You will want to clean these out so that it doesn't hold moisture and rust out the bottom of your fenders.

Recognize this? Under all of that mouse junk was hiding the original tire hold down. After sandblasting and powdercoat it will be as good as new.

December 15, 2005

Here is the old set of tires sitting with five new Sumitomo HTR 200 175/70R13s from the TireRack. This will be a big improvement over the old tires.

December 3, 2005

As the car heated up the shop overnight the pressures came back up in the tires and the right rear blew sometime when nobody was here.

December 2, 2005

1966 Sunbeam Tiger

This is the Tiger. It took four weeks to get here so now that the snow is on the ground we won't be finding what problems it has that could be fixed this winter.