The ad shows that the owner knows something or two about Sunbeam Tigers but
he has old information.
The Chittendon book "Performance Tuning Sunbeam Tiger" said that some late
Tigers came with a 289 block that was only bored to 260 specs. He recommended
that you can bore it and make your Tiger 260 into a 289. Sometimes it worked
but
as even Norm (IIRC the story is in the BON) found out most bore jobs including
Norm's own did not work, ruining the original Tiger block.
Also, IIRC, ALL Tigers have this block which Ron points out was changed in 1963
before any Tigers had been made.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Fraser <rfraser@bluefrog.com>
To: CoolVT@aol.com, Theo Smit <Theo.Smit@dynastream.com>, tigers@autox.team.net
Sent: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:41:23 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tiger for sale, Calgary area
If your talking about the underbored 289; that has no meaning no meaning to
me.
If the owner of that Tiger had included the casting # of the engine then we
would know what block he has and what cu. In.
The 260 block casting was changed to be consistent with the 289 5 bolt
casting in Jan 1963; these 2 blocks therefore look similar. The block
casting number is the key. This could be where the confusion lies in this
ad.
Ron Fraser
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From: tigers-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of CoolVT@aol.com
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 10:14 AM
To: Theo.Smit@dynastream.com; tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tiger for sale, Calgary area
"It is a transition car with the underbored Ford 289ci rather than the
260ci V8."
Anyone know what this sentence from the ad means?
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