[Tigers] 2012 Australian Sunbeam National

[Wally Menke]

Hi All

Yes a great weekend at Ballarat, lots of nice cars. I will send a few
photo's as well for Michael to post.

It's actually a Nissan SR20 motor and goes like stink! These motors were
used in what we call here the SX200 Nissan (Silvia in Japan) and a few other
models and are considered a really good engine. John the guy who owns it
from Sydney was going to put a turbo on it but it has plenty of go as it is.
With a turbo it would potentially be an 11 second 1/4 mile car and leave
just about any tiger behind. A few years ago I came across a guy at a swap
meet who put one of these engines in a Mk1 Ford Cortina which had been timed
at about 11.5 secs.

Wally Menke



-----Original Message-----
From: tigers-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of michael king
Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2012 9:28 AM
To: Thomas Witt
Cc: tigers at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] 2012 Australian Sunbeam National

I should probably include i think it was a CA18 motor.. so 1.8 N/A setup...

On 13 June 2012 09:16, michael king <michael.s.king at gmail.com> wrote:

> The twin cam 16 valave engine in the alpine is a Nissan motor from a 
> late 90's/early 2000's nissan... it is a beautiful install and the car 
> moves along VERY well. The owner was originally going to install the 
> turbo version.. but car is plenty fast enough as is ;-)