[Tigers] Dry sump

[Douglas Lyle]

Dan Walter's had a Tiger on a trailer at Sunbeam Specialties that had a dry
sump system.   I don't know the details but I remember looking at it.

Doug
Lyle




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 From: Sandy <sganz at pacbell.net>
To:
owain.lloyd at gmail.com; tigers at autox.team.net 
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014
9:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Dry sump
 

I would like to see all of that
crammed into the engine bay. I would 
guess you would put the tank in the
trunk? Man what a nightmare with all 
the plumbing... Still where there's a
will... you know the rest.

Sandy


On 3/20/2014 9:05 PM, Owain Lloyd wrote:
>
Anyone succeeded in dry sumping their tiger?  I would love to drop the
>
engine 2" and move it an inch back.
>
> I could make new engine mount brackets
to move it but I can't really see
> how the pump would fit on the passenger
side without the drive belt fouling
> the lower rad hose.  Also the cross
member would get in the way of the pump
> pulley.  I think there might be
enough space to fit a compact drive mandrel
> onto the balancer with the
engine an inch back though.
>
> The frame rails are just so damn narrow! 
Who's idea was it to put a v8 in
> this perfectly good 4 cylinder anyway? :)
>
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