[Tigers] 2012 Australian Sunbeam National

[Wally Menke]

Hi Gene



I donbt have any details and even donbt know how to contact John. If your
interested I can find details. But yes Ibd say your right in that it took a
lot of time to engineer the installation, but wow it looks the part!



Wally



From: genepadgett at comcast.net [mailto:genepadgett at comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, 15 June 2012 4:55 AM
To: Wally Menke
Cc: tigers at autox.team.net; michael king; Thomas Witt
Subject: Re: [Tigers] 2012 Australian Sunbeam National



Any publicly available write-up or story on the conversion?  Any info
available on the drive train (trans, axle, etc.), and how all that fit?
Sounds like a high value project.

Gene

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From: "Wally Menke" <walmenke at bigpond.net.au>
To: "michael king" <michael.s.king at gmail.com>, "Thomas Witt"
<atwittsend at verizon.net>
Cc: tigers at autox.team.net
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 6:01:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] 2012 Australian Sunbeam National

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