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Re: [Tigers] Factory 289 in Mk1...?

To: "Smit, Theo" <Theo.Smit@dynastream.com>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Factory 289 in Mk1...?
From: Steve Ralsten <sralsten111@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:22:28 -0800
Considering the way the last of the mk1's are loaded with square cornered
parts and lacking leaded seams any transition mid matches wouldn't surprise
me.
On Jan 23, 2011 11:14 AM, "Smit, Theo" <Theo.Smit@dynastream.com> wrote:
> My Tiger (B382002705) is the second-last Mk1(A) Tiger. It came to me with
a
> worked-over five bolt 289. Unfortunately, many (all?) of the original
engine
> ID tags were long gone by the time I got it, so there's not really
anything to
> go on there, other than to read off the casting dates (which we know will
be
> '64, because that's the last date those blocks were made, right?). I do
have
> the proper tagged HEH-E gearbox.
>
> As we all know the proper engine for the Mk2 is the six-bolt 289, with the
> HEH-CF wider ratio transmission. So any factory 'inbetween' Tigers would
have
> been more likely to have that combination, than the five-bolt 289 and
HEH-E.
>
> The only remotely likely way to get a five bolt 289 into the Tiger from
the
> factory would have been that Ford ran out of 260 short-block assemblies
while
> filling the Rootes orders, and they substituted in some 289 block
assemblies.
> However, the likelyhood that these specific engines would then end up at
the
> end of the Mk1A production run is unlikely to me.
>
> Does anyone know how often engines/transmissions were shipped to Rootes?
Was
> there a quarterly order?
>
> Theo
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tigers-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-
>> bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Allan Ballard
>> Sent: January 23, 2011 11:24 AM
>> To: Beamclub TIGER
>> Subject: [Tigers] Factory 289 in Mk1...?
>>
>> "Sunbeam Tiger Limited Edition Extra," a book compiled by RM Clarke
>> (Brooklands Books, Surrey)... reprints a July 2001 article from
>> Classics -- "Sunbeam Tiger restoration Project."
>>
>> On page 116, the reprint states: "Somewhere along the line, Tiger
>> owners who
>> have the earlier cars with the 4.2 liter engines
>> develop a compulsion to fit the larger 4.7 liter unit, as used on the
>> later
>> MK1 and MKII models..."
>>
>> Is factory installation of a 289 in MK1 Tigers a fact or did Classics
>> err?
>>
>> I've seen speculation on occasion but this is the first time I've
>> noticed the
>> claim in a publication.
>>
>> Allan Ballard
>> Mk1-a Tiger
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