Hi- All the tanks arent made of the same material BUT I do have one thats
brass. I dont paint it. I do however use brasso a few times a year to shine
that baby up. Just thought I would mention it. I have others that paint makes
them look better but the brass one looks great when polished.
TonytheTiger
--- On Sun, 1/25/09, Samouce's <wsamouce@kc.rr.com> wrote:
> From: Samouce's <wsamouce@kc.rr.com>
> Subject: [Tigers] Lots of work on the Tiger today.
> To: tigers@autox.team.net
> Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009, 6:40 PM
> I got the heads back from Paul Burke yesterday. He did his
> usual fantastic
> work on them.
>
> The heads were is really bad shape. Due to at least two
> bad valve jobs, the
> seats were really sunk in the head and hardened exhaust
> valve seats were
> never installed. Paul installed new Chevy (yes, Chevrolet)
> valves, intake
> are 1.72" and exhaust 1.5". He machined three
> angle seats and the same on
> the valves. No stones were used; these are knife edged
> machine cut angles.
>
> Follow this link to lots of pictures -
> http://www.sunbeamalpine.org/forum/showthread.php?p=63929#post63929
>
> Waiting on the radiator and expansion tank to be painted
> and then it will be
> about finished.....for now. They are really never
> finished, are they.
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