[Tigers] MK1a Originality question

[Taylor, Matthew]

I always thought they used a bare aluminum housing like in the picture that JD
just posted.  That picture was taken in 1966 after the motor was rebuilt.  So
I went back and looked at a picture of the same car from very late 64 or very
early 65 when the LAT 1 induction kit was first installed, and the housing is
painted black.  I had not noticed that until just now.

Matthew

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From: tigers-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of J D Johnson

Maybe an actual image of the 4bbl installation will answer the question....
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JD

At 12:29 PM 3/11/2011, Terry wrote:
>I would think that the thermostat housing would have been the engine
>color. When the shelby engines were made, they took the 289 (271hp)
>motors and put the cobra intake on them, the thermostat housing was
>left the engine color. I would assume the same would have been for the
Tiger.
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