[Tigers] 2012 Australian Sunbeam National

[genepadgett at comcast.net]

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 

----- Original Message -----
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 



-----Original Message----- 
From: tigers-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net] 
On Behalf Of michael king 
Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2012 9:28 AM 
To: Thomas Witt 
Cc: tigers at autox.team.net 
Subject: Re: [Tigers] 2012 Australian Sunbeam National 

I should probably include i think it was a CA18 motor.. so 1.8 N/A setup... 

On 13 June 2012 09:16, michael king <michael.s.king at gmail.com> wrote: 

> The twin cam 16 valave engine in the alpine is a Nissan motor from a 
> late 90's/early 2000's nissan... it is a beautiful install and the car 
> moves along VERY well. The owner was originally going to install the 
> turbo version.. but car is plenty fast enough as is ;-) 
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