Sunbeam Tiger: Installing Turbo's

old hp 260 · February 02, 2009, 10:05:56 PM

hi jerry, if you read car craft july 08 there's an article of a street legal ford fairmount with a turbo on a 302 engine, and 3.08 rear gear, and he runs 10.05//9.80's i think if your set up will go even faster!! are you still running the powerglide?

fasttiger · February 03, 2009, 10:43:37 AM

Yes it has a powerglide, really like it with the 3:23 gear in it now. I'm looking at running 9:30's, but have to put the cage in the car, as right now I'm happy the way it is.

old hp 260 · February 04, 2009, 12:06:22 AM

hey jerry i got the date incorrect for the magizine article, the correct date is november 2005 sorry.

fasttiger · February 18, 2009, 08:19:16 PM

Finally got the pistons from JE and the motor should be done by this fri hope I can pick it up.
Be another month to get it up and running have to order custom head gaskets from Cometic
and a few other misc. parts
Will keep you informed of progress

old hp 260 · February 20, 2009, 10:07:23 PM

best of luck to ya jerry!! i'm very curious how fast you will go......

fasttiger · February 24, 2009, 11:00:59 PM

hoping to go very fast!!!!!!
I'm working on the rear brake setup changing out to disk, hope to have it done by this weekend.
Putting disk brakes from a 93 cobra on it, have to make a bracket and do some grinding. Nothing is very simple when you have to modify everything to fit but what the hell keeps me out of the bar.

fasttiger · March 01, 2009, 08:20:22 PM

Got the disk brake setup on and have brakes !!!!!!

old hp 260 · March 06, 2009, 02:07:11 AM

good idea with better brakes since you'll be going faster!! i might bring my tiger home since the snow has melted, i have alot of work ahead of me.......

fasttiger · March 06, 2009, 08:19:58 PM

Good luck with your new project Mark

old hp 260 · March 07, 2009, 12:05:58 AM

thanks jerry, please take some videos of your tiger for me?? i got it home finally!! it has the ford top loader 4 speed but seems to be locked up or stuck in gear both rear wheels wouldn't roll at all so we had to load it that way, more later.

BlownMGB-V8 · March 08, 2009, 07:18:29 PM

Seems to me those old top loaders had the capability of being locked into two gears at the same time, in which case they won't budge. Look at the shifter. It seems to me the tranny might not even have an internal lock-out which prevents that.

Jim

old hp 260 · March 09, 2009, 11:45:49 PM

thanks jim i'll check it out, and i'll probably pull the drive shaft out just to be sure. the guy i bought it from said him and his brother pushed it in the barn, but the shifter won't hardly move. i got underneath it tonight and i can move all the shift levers with a 1/2 wrench fairly easy but the car still won't move so i'll pull the drive shaft tomorrow if it doesn't rain.

fasttiger · April 12, 2009, 10:05:12 PM

Got the rear disk brakes on from a 93 Cobra and they are working great. This weekend work on the Aerospace setup got the hubs machined and got the bearings to fit and put them on the spindle, looks like it is going to work now just waiting for the rotors and calibers.
Looks like my sponser is coming through with the money for the motor. We will race the car this weekend in a 11:50 heads up class then will take the motor out and start getting everything done for the new motor set up. we are planning a trip to Tulsa June 27th for a mustang shelby race should be 4-6 Tigers there.

old hp 260 · April 13, 2009, 12:55:46 AM

good luck jerry, bring home a win for the tigers!!

fasttiger · April 26, 2009, 10:43:48 PM

Well raced the old 200+k motor for the last time last weekend ran 11:82 @ 125mph got beat in the finals by .006 good close race. Motor had a tough time building boost on a instant green but it stayed together on 14lbs of boost.
Sponser came through with money for the new motor so old motor came out and will be finishing build in a couple of weeks, took the tranny to get rebuilt and the converter checked out, more money.
Got the Aerospace brake setup on the front done this weekend just need some new brake lines and a couple of spacers, looks good. Finally updated brakes hope it stops better.
Doing some misc. clean up work, getting ready for the race in Tulsa, supposed to be a couple of other Tigers and Alpines there.
If anybody makes it there please stop over and say HI

fasttiger · May 14, 2009, 09:27:32 PM

Update: Got the new motor in and started it up sounds good, will get the front end under the car fri and get the car to the Dyno Sat AM and get it retuned.
Will update later

fasttiger · May 21, 2009, 11:13:53 PM

Got the car dynoed and stayed really safe on this tune, made 611RWH @6000RPM's With 10lbs of boost,18 degrees of timing and on pump gas.
Going to race this weekend if the weather holds up. Will update with times

fasttiger · May 25, 2009, 08:04:04 PM

Went 10:42 @135 was having trouble with the launch, found out we had a leak on one of the boost lines, got it fixed and looking forward to going to Tulsa end of June

fasttiger · May 31, 2009, 09:00:34 PM

Took the car out to a street legal race at the drag strip Sat. night and it ran 10:27@ 137MPH looking forward to Tulsa.

old hp 260 · May 31, 2009, 09:18:20 PM

WOW!! that some serious hp best of luck to you jerry, hope you have time for some video's?

fasttiger · June 11, 2009, 10:51:42 PM

Yes we will have video's at the Tulsa race I'm going to see if can borrow a small cam corder and mount it on the roll bar.
Car is running sweet looking to get it down in the mid 9's at Tulsa

MGBV8 · June 20, 2009, 09:38:22 AM

What is your tach reading at the finish line?

Looking forward to some action photos!

fasttiger · June 20, 2009, 09:51:48 AM

We are going tru the traps about 64-6500, it has 3:23 with a 26" tire.

fasttiger · June 29, 2009, 08:17:24 PM

Well all I can say it was really hot in Tulsa and the car only ran 9:96 @ 139 was'nt what I wanted but we made seven passes and they were 9:96 thru 10:01. The guy that was suppose have his video camera did'nt have the soft wear to down load or something like that.
We can only make 11lbs of boost so it made 668RWHP we are working on that problem now because I want to turn it down to 5lbs on the street so it does'nt blow there tires away.

old hp 260 · June 30, 2009, 10:46:25 AM

hey jerry thats still very impressive!!!! getting all that hooked up in such a small package, when is your next race?