Well happy birthday youngster, I was 67 yesterday.
Jim in Palmdale, where it is actually raining wonder of wonders
----- Original Message -----
From: "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>
To: "LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 12:01 PM
Subject: [Land-speed] My Sunbeam Tiger, Sorta Kinda LSR.
> We were invited to bring the red race car and our Tiger to a gathering
> of loyal Sunbeam enthusiasts at Big Bear next June. To that end the wife
> and I decided (mostly her) that the Orange Tiger needed a bit of refurb
> to include a new paint job. Since this is to be a special really god job
> the painter and I decided to strip the car down to the buff pretty much.
> So for the last week I have been field stripping the Tiger in prep for
> paint prep. LSR content: this kept me from finishing my T72 Turbo hot
> side plumbing but I can now get back onto that.
>
> I must say, that I never want to build headers from scratch ever never
> again. Never, did I say that? Yeah, never. Especially in a car that has
> no room anywhere. I am now doing the finishing welding and there are a
> million places to weld. Hopefully will finish this week though. One of
> the SUnbeam Tiger guys has offered to coat them for me for free but he
> may back out when he hears how much pipe there is. Two headers like
> shorties, one massive cross over with the turbo mount, and waste gate
> flanges and three v band clamps, and a waste gate dump pipe that
> connects to both waste gates. I will have several hours of just finish
> grinding ala porting to make the flows as smooth as my welding permits,
> lol. Then I can put that sucker back together and get ready to run in
> August and Sept and October...
>
> Oh, and today is my 66th birthday. I am an old(er) geezer now. Got a
> great gift from my wife (no, not that!) which is a book I have longed to
> have: 100 Suns. A picture book with the 100 best nuclear
> explosions during our atmospheric testing.
>
> mayf
> _______________________________________________
> Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html
>
> Land-speed mailing list
>
> You are subscribed as jdincau@qnet.com
>
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/land-speed
_______________________________________________
Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html
Land-speed mailing list
http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/land-speed
|