[Tigers] Exhaust manifolds

[Thomas Witt]

When George Boskoff spoke at  the Mammoth United he said something to the 
effect of, "I kept sending the kid to the dealer (Ford) until we found a 
manifold (exhaust) that would fit."  So, even before the Tiger went into 
production there was something in the Ford parts bin that was functional. 
Perhaps these are the manifolds Peter saw.

It is only a guess, but with the Tiger having a specific manifold Rootes 
likely felt a need for an alteration (no matter how minor) to meet a 
specification.  It would be interesting to see the manifolds on the 
Boskoff/Shelby prototype assuming they are still what George installed.

Tom

> While at the Portland Swap Meet, I saw a set of cast SB Ford exhaust
> manifolds. The R/H and L/H looked like mirror images and the R/H
> looked identical to a stock Tiger's. The fellow said he thought they
> were from a Comet. If these were available, why the different
> specific Tiger casting??
>
> D/S C3DE - 8(9?)431 - A  3H27
>
> P/S C3DE - 9431 - A  5A21
>
> They were quite rusty and a bit hard to read (yes, I had my glasses
> on!) so may have messed up on the 8's & 9's.
>
> Peter
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