Happy birthday Mayf! 66 is not old..... If you aresea turtle ;-) Congrats on
the Sunbeam invites. You can still hitthat 200 mark by the Big Bear bash if ya
bring it out to El Mirage inMay! Heck, it's just dirt & it washes off
(usually) And wheredid Cathy get such an exotic gift?? I bet we all could put
a booktogether of the best 100 internal engine explosions........
Ed
(raining here too)
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Dincau [mailto:jdincau@qnet.com]
>Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 04:02 PM
>To: drmayf@mayfco.com, 'LSR'
>Subject: Re: [Land-speed] My Sunbeam Tiger, Sorta Kinda LSR.
>
>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
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