Ron,
I was thining more along the lines of shelbys involvement with the first
race tiger (#45) as the lat photos for SCCA homologation show the same
halibrands as used on that car and figured they may have had something to do
with the making of the TIGER manifold.
It was my understanding that the "TIGER" lettered manifolds like the TIGER
filter housings were not LAT but aftermarket.
On 3 February 2011 15:57, Ron Fraser <rfraser@bluefrog.com> wrote:
> Michael
> Shelby American was involved with the 2nd prototype. Ian Garrad was
> well aware of the Cobra parts that they made available for the small block
> Ford engine. Many of the LAT parts have corresponding Shelby part numbers
> and were made by the same vendor.
> I believe there were several official LAT Tiger lettered intake
> manifolds; TBON shows at least 2 of them. I'm not up on LAT options so my
> knowledge here is very limited.
>
> Ron Fraser
>
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> Subject: [Tigers] LAT manifolds
>
>
> I know this has been covered a few times, that there were 2 edelbrock
> manifolds that were used for the LAT options, but something that caught my
> eye last week when i was looking through the graham rood book "works
> tigers"
> was the manifold listed and photographed for the SCCA eligible options for
> the tiger.
>
> If memory serves me the LAT options early on were developed by HSC and
> doane
> spencer to get the race tiger up and going. It shows a photo of what looks
> like the HSC vented and hooded bonnet, the halibrand wheels and 4 wheel
> disc
> setup along with the custom large fuel tank in the boot. The manifold was
> what caught my eye... it is the early style 4BBL with 4 raised ports for
> the
> carb, but it was lettered "TIGER" like the early cobra intakes.
>
> Now i know there are 3 aftermarket "TIGER" lettered manifolds, and
> apparently none were LAT options, but its interesting that one of them is
> the one in the photo for the SCCA documents. Also the halibrands look like
> the ones shelby ran on his tiger and different to the HSC kidney bean ones,
> is it possible that the mfg of the "COBRA" lettered manifolds was asked to
> do the TIGER one for the shelby tiger?
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Michael King
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