[Land-speed] My Sunbeam Tiger, Sorta Kinda LSR.

[drmayf]

We were invited to bring the red race car and our Tiger to a gathering 
of loyal Sunbeam enthusiasts at Big Bear next June. To that end the wife 
and I decided (mostly her) that the Orange Tiger needed a bit of refurb 
to include a new paint job. Since this is to be a special really god job 
the painter and I decided to strip the car down to the buff pretty much. 
So for the last week I have been field stripping the Tiger in prep for 
paint prep. LSR content: this kept me from finishing my T72 Turbo hot 
side plumbing but I can now get back onto that.

I must say, that I never want to build headers from scratch ever never 
again. Never, did I say that? Yeah, never. Especially in a car that has 
no room anywhere. I am now doing the finishing welding and there are a 
million places to weld. Hopefully will finish this week though. One of 
the SUnbeam Tiger guys has offered to coat them for me for free but he 
may back out when he hears how much pipe there is. Two headers like 
shorties, one massive cross over with the turbo mount, and waste gate 
flanges and three v band clamps, and a waste gate dump pipe that 
connects to both waste gates. I will have several hours of just finish 
grinding ala porting to make the flows as smooth as my welding permits, 
lol.  Then I can put that sucker back together and get ready to run in 
August and Sept and October...

Oh, and today is my 66th birthday. I am an old(er) geezer now. Got a 
great gift from my wife (no, not that!) which is a book I have longed to 
have:   100 Suns.    A picture book  with the 100 best nuclear 
explosions during our atmospheric testing.

mayf