[Tigers] Monterey Update

[Tom Hall]

  On 8/15/2010 7:35 AM, Buck Trippel wrote:
> As it now stands, I plan to withdraw our SCF Tiger from today's races. 
> John somehow survived a multi-car crash in a Scarab yesterday 
> afternoon in which he was pinned upside down after rolling it 2-1/2 
> times. He was checked out at the hospital and then released last night 
> with no injuries other than some bumps and bruises. I think he's 
> earned a day off.
>
> Michael, to answer your question, our rules now say that the spark 
> must be produced inside the distributor cap. Points would work but 
> nobody produces the old style high RPM points anymore. While the 
> various Pertronics all produce hotter sparks than points, at best they 
> have less than half the output of the old reliable MSD. Actually I 
> have  been very pleased at how well the SCF Tiger had been performing. 
> On the speed chart we're quicker than all the GT350s and most of the 
> Cobras and Vettes. There are only a couple Cobras and Vettes quicker 
> than us and most of those are from the Ap class. We were looking good 
> enough for one 350 owner to (joke) suggest deploying a police spike 
> strip in front of our pits to slow the Tiger down.
>
> BTW, Yesterday Tom Hall installed a new R&P in Tom Sakai's rear end. 
> Dan Walters and Tom were still installing it in the race car last 
> night when I went to bed. They might have a  bit more to do on it this 
> morning.
>
> BT at Monterey
To correct the record slightly, Thomo (Peter Thomson, of Australia) is 
visiting at our home, and he played a major part in installing' the 
replacement gears in Tom Sakai's differential.  The job would have been 
a lot longer if I had to do it alone.  As an interesting side note, 
Thomo just returned from a short run in his Tiger. San Francisco area 
to  Alaska and back, _with no top_, over 8000 miles in 3 weeks.  So the 
next time you guys consider that it's "just too far" to come to a Tiger 
event.  Consider Pete's effort, "just for fun".


-- 
Tom Hall
ModTiger Engineering
www.tigerengineering.net