The engine certainly is scarce, especially if it hasn't been over bored too
much.
The engine is stronger than the 260. I found that parts are more available.
If it has been over bored too much, sleeving is a possibility.
Around here they show up from time to time. The lowest cost I've seen locally
is
250.00, condition unknown, ranging up to 850.00 for a claimed runner.
So far as I can determine, the Tiger II 289 engine uses 6 bolts and won't fit
to the
5 bolt bell housing.
Allan Ballard
Mk1a Tiger
SIV Alpine
On May 19, 2011, at 11:42 PM, Dennis Newman wrote:
> Hi from Colorado. I ran across a 5 bolt 289 with the engine ID tag a guy
is
> trying to sell. Is it worth while purchasing the engine. I don't know
how
> rare this motor is, and could use some help on it. I was thinking of taking
> the original 260 out and replacing it with the 289. Any thoughts. The
> engine tag and number on the block is definitely 289. The guy said it came
> in his 64 Galaxy.
>
> Also my subscription to the tiger emails strangely stopped a couple weeks
> ago and would like to get back on the mailing list, could also use some
help
> on this as well.
>
> Dennis 303 807-8061
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tigers-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Allan Ballard
> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 12:17 PM
> To: Smit, Theo
> Cc: Beamclub TIGER
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Factory 289 in Mk1...?
>
> The Tiger II gearbox isn't a HEH-B with holes to match either a 5 or 6 bolt
> block?
>
> Allan
>
> On Jan 23, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Smit, Theo wrote:
>
>> My Tiger (B382002705) is the second-last Mk1(A) Tiger. It came to me with
> a
> worked-over five bolt 289. Unfortunately, many (all?) of the original
engine
> ID tags were long gone by the time I got it, so there's not really anything
> to
> go on there, other than to read off the casting dates (which we know will
be
> '64, because that's the last date those blocks were made, right?). I do
have
> the proper tagged HEH-E gearbox.
>>
>> As we all know the proper engine for the Mk2 is the six-bolt 289, with the
> HEH-CF wider ratio transmission. So any factory 'inbetween' Tigers would
> have
> been more likely to have that combination, than the five-bolt 289 and
HEH-E.
>>
>> The only remotely likely way to get a five bolt 289 into the Tiger from
> the
> factory would have been that Ford ran out of 260 short-block assemblies
> while
> filling the Rootes orders, and they substituted in some 289 block
> assemblies.
> However, the likelyhood that these specific engines would then end up at
the
> end of the Mk1A production run is unlikely to me.
>>
>> Does anyone know how often engines/transmissions were shipped to Rootes?
> Was
> there a quarterly order?
>>
>> Theo
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: tigers-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-
>>> bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Allan Ballard
>>> Sent: January 23, 2011 11:24 AM
>>> To: Beamclub TIGER
>>> Subject: [Tigers] Factory 289 in Mk1...?
>>>
>>> "Sunbeam Tiger Limited Edition Extra," a book compiled by RM Clarke
>>> (Brooklands Books, Surrey)... reprints a July 2001 article from
>>> Classics -- "Sunbeam Tiger restoration Project."
>>>
>>> On page 116, the reprint states: "Somewhere along the line, Tiger
>>> owners who
>>> have the earlier cars with the 4.2 liter engines
>>> develop a compulsion to fit the larger 4.7 liter unit, as used on the
>>> later
>>> MK1 and MKII models..."
>>>
>>> Is factory installation of a 289 in MK1 Tigers a fact or did Classics
>>> err?
>>>
>>> I've seen speculation on occasion but this is the first time I've
>>> noticed the
>>> claim in a publication.
>>>
>>> Allan Ballard
>>> Mk1-a Tiger
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