[Roadsters] Is it a Tiger?

[Jerry Krakauer]

I believe that Chrysler tried to use their 273(same block as the 318, but
was lighter and had physically smaller heads) but as Dave, said too big.
Even the Ford small block was real tight, the right bank rear spark plug had
to be changed from the passenger compartment via an under dash removable
panel.  In the end for both appearance and handling the older AC
chassis(which in stock form used a number of different inline sixes) was a
far better choice than the Alpine for the power of the 260/289.

Jerry Krakauer
SRL311 00099

-----Original Message-----
From: datsun-roadsters-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:datsun-roadsters-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of David Patten
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:49 PM
To: roadster list
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Is it a Tiger?

The Tiger came with Ford V8's, most had a 260CI and later ones a 289CI. It
was rumored that the Tiger would get a 318ci Mopar engine after Chyrsler
bought out the Rootes Group, owner of Sunbeam, but the 318's size was too
big. Ultimately the Chrysler buy out of Rootes killed the Tiger because of
its Ford engine.

On the Datsun side of things. While I was in high school a local kid put a
289 into a Datsun Roadster. It flew down the 1//4 mile. I gave thought to
buying it, but that never panned out.
--
Dave Patten, Owner

FutoFab, LLC
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