Good Story Mark. I hope you took mucho pictures of the project
before/during/after. Think about placing it in some local shows. Many, as you
have said yourself never heard of a Tiger. You can help spread the knowledge of
Sunbeam. It's fun!!
Good Luck, Mark
Rose, Mark wrote:
> Listers-
>
> This is more a story of finding out what a Tiger can do. My wife listened
> patiently as I excitedly told her my findings but she really didn't
> appreciate the full extent of it. I figured you would appreciate it. If you
> don't care about a newbie and his story, please delete.
>
> So I started this project last April with a car that was my father-in-laws.
> It was something called a Sunbeam Tiger which I had never heard of. The
> motor had already been rebuilt and had sat wrapped up on the stand for the
> last five years. The transmission was in the corner and the body of the car
> on jack stands. Since I had no experience with cars whatsoever, I figured it
> would be a good challenge to put these pieces together and make a car. How
> hard could it be? Was I surprised at the amount of work, time and blood it
> has taken to this point. Thanks to the people on this list and local OKC
> folks that have helped out with suggestions.
>
> Anyway, here's the exciting stuff that happened last night. The car has been
> running for the last three weeks. I would take it out, stretch its legs and
> then come back and see what had broken or what was leaking. The broken
> things/leaks had gotten fewer and fewer within the last week so I started
> the fine tuning process. Last night, after chasing down some electrical
> problems and fitting an electrical fan on the radiator, my cousin and I
> worked on the carburetor. He knew that this motor should be performing at a
> higher level than it was but couldn't figure what was wrong. We then checked
> the throttle cable(after-market cable) and found out when the accelerator
> was pushed all the way to the rubber, we were only using 1/4 of the
> carburetor. !!?! After a quick adjustment and rotation of the accelerator
> bar, we took it out for a test run. Scary fast! I thought before it was
> pretty good - and that was with only a quarter of the carb(The secondarys
> were not even kicking in). After racing around town on the highways, we had
> to go to bed. I run in, wake my wife up and tell her the whole story as she
> says that's nice and goes back to sleep.
>
> If you got to this point, thanks for reading and sharing my excitement!!
> Mark
>
> Mark Rose
> Team Quest Learning Services
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> mrose@ou.edu
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